Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site stat-l Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Stat-L:rsk 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 Article-I.D.: stat-l.262 Posted: Wed Jan 9 13:32:59 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 00:07:42 EST References: <252@stat-l>, <1064@houxm.UUCP> <1651@pucc-h> Organization: Purdue University Lines: 20 >>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. -- Rich Kulawiec @ Purdue C.C. Unix Systems Group rsk@purdue-asc.arpa (decvax,ihnp4,uiucdcs)!pur-ee!rsk.uucp (decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax)!purdue!rsk.uucp Wombats are partially protected under the Wildlife Act of 1975.