On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, James C Field wrote: > 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?
number of candidate get pass, 0 = not even one pass 1 = one pass 2 = one fail 3 = all pass -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
