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CASE 18: Jôshû’s Dog
A monk asked Jôshû, “Does the dog have buddha-nature, or not?” Jôshû said, “It has” The monk said, “If it has it, why did it creep into that skin bag?” Jôshû said, “Because it does so knowingly.” Another monk asked, “Does the dog have buddha-nature, or not?” Jôshû said, “It has not”. The monk said,…
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Charles Simic
We think best when we bring opposites together, when we realize that all these realities, one inside the other, are somehow connected. That’s how the wonder and amazement that are so necessary to both poetry and philosophy come about. A “truth” detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in…
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CASE 17: Hôgen’s "Hairsbreadth"
Hôgen asked Shuzanshu, “‘If there is only a hairsbreadth of difference, it is the distance between heaven and earth.’ How do you understand that?” Shuzanshu said, “If there is only a hairsbreadth of difference, it is the distance between heaven and earth.” Hôgen said, “If that’s your understanding, how could you ever attain IT?” Shuzanshu…
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Victor Wooten — Music Lesson
Mu is an ancient word for ‘mother,’ and sic is just an abbreviation for the word ‘science.’ So, put together, Music means ‘the mother of all sciences.’
David Given Schwarm 