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Robots. Jokes. That special category where the universe tweaks our nose and winks at us. Winks, and crooks a finger, beckoning us to follow.
Franz Kafka in his Blue Octavo Notebooks has given us this brief parable:“The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.”Look through the world around you and you will find intimations of the Dharma, glimpses, echoes, not always complete, but never less than rich. The sound of a digeredoo in the midst of white noise, a hint from the sermon of a Christian mystic, a taste of emptiness from a middle European Jewish writer.
A koan is a riddle or puzzle that Zen Buddhists use during meditation to help them unravel greater truths. We look at some examples to see how these enigmatic sayings work.
Mu is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese character 無 (Mandarin pronounciation wú), which means "does not have" or "wit...