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Re: [Icehouse] Zendo rules

  • FromChristopher Hickman <tophu@xxxxxxx>
  • DateMon, 09 Mar 2009 10:50:09 -0400
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... :)

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