How to pronounce “koa” in English

something called koans. Koans are just riddles.

We bonded over a koala.

It's a collective koan.

He's posed as koala joeys getting a surgery in a hospital, just trying to figure out techniques of how I would shoot something.

to uh koala lumur could have done that but you get no sympathy for me because you sp five more days in Thailand this

Here's an example of a a koan. A junior

They were just-- it was just the koala.

We've been given a koan, I can't answer it by myself.

The only answer to that koan is from us.

We see a giraffe cuddle up to a koala bear, a puppy and a kitten playfully wrestling with one another.

I often use the metaphor of a zen koan.

You have to dwell in the tensions that the koan creates.

a common ground, a common language through a koala, instead of a meal.

Now, I know that sounds like a zen koan, or some neologism from Orwell's "1984." You know war, is peace.

Yes. We dry humped a cuddly koala into an R rating, which is weirdly legal.

it just is sort of, there's a koan in Zen, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind." Basically, I don't know if anybody here is familiar with this koan, but I find it very useful.

And I know a lot of people in Australia were very upset that this wasn't given-- that the koala didn't have an Australian accent.

It's a challenge that's non-linear you can't figure out the answer to a koan.

I had the pleasure of going off the coast of Queensland to do some of our koala research there as well.

Because you guys embraced that R rated-- Yeah, we hugged it like a cuddly koala.

And for those of you who know surfing history, surf historians, back then the surfboards were basically 100, 125-pound planks of wood-- Koa

He is the voice of Buster Moon, our lead within the movie, and the koala who seems to live off an ability to manifest

Why! Right? Like, why does Matthew McConaughey deserve-- why does he get to be a koala-- Well, he gets-- --and Reese Witherspoon gets to be a pig?

BARBARA JOSHIN O'HARA: Well, from the Zen Buddhist tradition, we actually use koans, which are designed to be like roadblocks to the rational mind