Person A: Do you still beat your wife?
Person B: Mu
Shalom
David Lind
Trickster@postmark.net
jeffrey e zweig wrote:
> As memory serves, Pirsig defines MU in ZMM which is a Zen no-no, but
> Pirsig has this tendency to define everything in terms of the intellect.
> Anyway, MU is a famous Koan given by Joshu to his students (a koan is a
> Zen teaching device; its answer is supposed to transcend logical
> thought). Joshu was asked by his students, "Does a dog have Buddha
> nature?" He replied, "MU" which in Japanese means "No" or "Not" but can
> be interpreted as,
> "The question you posit has no answer." Zen novices are to this day are
> tortured by MU. The Zen master claims that MU is a red-hot ball of iron
> in the novice's throat.
> Let it be so,
> Jeff
>
>
> "When is a man in mere understanding? When he sees one thing seperate
> from another.
> When is a man above mere understanding? When a man sees all in all, thern
> a man stands
> beyond mere understanding."-Eckhardt
>
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