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禅宗中禅师与弟子间的故事,有时似谜语,有时似寓言或比喻,作为参禅对象,经冥想可启发心智而开悟。

A story about a Zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable or parable, which has become an object of Zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the Zen student’s mind leading to satori.

无解之谜,用以促使反思逻辑推理之不足,从而获得觉悟。

A riddle with no solution, used to provoke reflection on the inadequacy of logical reasoning, and to lead to enlightenment.

中医师用以打破患者被诊断为疾病主因的习惯性思维模式的治疗技术。

A therapy technique used by Traditional Chinese medicinal physicians or medical practitioners to break a presenting patients habitual pattern of thinking that has been diagnosed as the primary cause of an illness or disease.