FWIW the explanation of "mu" above owes more to Robert Anton Wilson than to Wumen. The doctrinaire explanation of Joshu's Dog is that Joshu is using "mu" in the sense of "no." That is he's saying that a dog does not have Buddha nature. Why would Joshu say THAT? Much of the Mumonkan are koans that have to do with duality.
Does a dog have buddha nature? If you answer yes or no you will lose your own buddha nature. -- Charles On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Tomasz Rola <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > > For the record, I believe there was at least one rm implementation which > > would have asked a question ("-i") but instead of waiting for answer, > > removed a node just after asking ("-f"). Strangely, I cannot tell if I > > ever used that particular "rm" or not. > > ... because GNU /bin/rm on my box doesn't ask, just checked to be sure. > No, not on my home or anybody else's homedir. > > Regards, > Tomasz Rola > > -- > ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** > ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** > ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** > ** ** > ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** > >
