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From: seifert@mako.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Zen master and student
Message-ID: <569@mako.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-Feb-85 19:02:51 EST
Article-I.D.: mako.569
Posted: Sat Feb  2 19:02:51 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 7-Feb-85 07:26:45 EST
References: <252@stat-l> <1064@houxm.UUCP> <1651@pucc-h> <853@gloria.UUCP>
Reply-To: seifert@mako.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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Summary: how to avoid getting slapped

In article <853@gloria.UUCP> colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) writes:
>
>It's not perfectionistic!  Here's another well-known story:
>
>	The master said to the student, "If you do not utter a word
>	of zen I will strike you, and if you utter a word of zen I will
>	strike you." The bewildered student said nothing.  The master
>	slapped him.

The student obviously should have uttered *two* words of zen.

Hey Woodstock, have you seen my "Zen and the Art of Sopwith Camel
Maintanence" floating around anywhere?

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