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From: rsk@stat-l (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Open suggestion to Jeff Sargent
Message-ID: <262@stat-l>
Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 13:32:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  9 13:32:59 1985
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>>From Greg Skinner (houxm!gregbo):
>>
>>It seems there was once a master and a student.  The student asked the master 
>>one day "What is the meaning of the Tao?"  The master slapped the student in 
>>face and said, "If you have to ask then obviously you do not understand."

>From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
>1.  The master's line is so obvious that it's hardly worth saying.
>2.  This is exactly the kind of perfectionistic attitude that is killing me
>    -- the idea that any lack of knowledge or understanding is a sin deserving
>    painful punishment.

	You do not grasp even the beginning of Zen.

	The master's line is more subtle than you imagine...and the slap
in the face was NOT punishment.
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