Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!gregbo From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Open suggestion to Jeff Sargent Message-ID: <1064@houxm.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 14:34:00 EST Article-I.D.: houxm.1064 Posted: Fri Jan 4 14:34:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jan-85 03:16:11 EST References: <252@stat-l> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 25 > From: rsk@stat-l (Rich Kulawiec) >> From: Jeff Sargent >> >> I understood most of the poem, and its relevance to net.singles, but would >> you mind explaining the first two lines? >>> Although innumerable beings have been led to Nirvana >>> no being has been led to Nirvana > It's not meant to be easily explainable; such is the essence of the > koan. Why not think about it for a while, and find your own answer? A friend of mine who is into Eastern religions once told me the essence of the Tao. Here's how the story goes ... 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." -- Baby tie your hair back in a long white bow ... Meet me in the field, behind the dynamo ... Greg Skinner (gregbo) {allegra,cbosgd,ihnp4}!houxm!gregbo