bill lam wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, emptist wrote:
>   
>> A famous ancient master of Zen would always say the same two words to every
>> visitors to him,  'drink tea', he would say. That means much. One of them
>> may be 'taste it, the truth is within you'.
>>     
>
> It is very easy to pose as a zen master.  There was another monk who
> always raised one finger as the answer (one finger zen, but not that
> practiced by shaolin monks).  Three candidates for a public
> examination went together and asked the master to predict how many of
> then will get a pass.  The master just raised one finger as usual.
> And he did actually foretell the result.  The reason will be leaved as
> an exercise to readers.
>
>   
HUH?
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