On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Karl von Laudermann <karlvonl@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I find that "A koan has the Buddha nature if it consists entirely of > pieces." comes up more often than I'd like. :-) But, I tried to strike a > good balance between practicality and variety. If you get an unusable rule, > either tweak it or try again. > How does the Master create a koan without the Buddha nature, given that the Null Koan is explicitly disallowed? Timothy