On Sunday, March 08, 2009, at 05:13PM, "Daniel W. Johnson" <panoptes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >At 12:37 -0400 2009-03-08, Karl von Laudermann wrote: >>I find that "A koan has the Buddha nature if it consists entirely of >>pieces." comes up more often than I'd like. :-) > >I just saw it produce the inverse of that: "A koan has the Buddha >nature if it contains no pieces." Well, this is why the rules of >Zendo require starting with one black-stone koan and one white-stone >koan. And that's what the null koan is for... :)