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- Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:43 pm
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- Topic: Zen Koan, parable, saying, quip etc...
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Re: Zen Koan, parable, saying, quip etc...
I think Joshu's verse is my favourite Koan...simply put it is the exclamation 'Mu!' meaning nothing as neither positive nor negative -1 +1 = 0 as it were. The story goes that one of Joshu's disciples (he was a progressed monk/priest) asked 'Does a [wagthe]dog have buddha/dharma nature?' To which Jos...