Edgar,

I won't say I know what a koan is.  Only what about 175 of them are.  One is 
enough.  Yours would be fine, if you;d write it.

I thought you would please add to the corpus.

Wrong!

In vernacular parlance, "My bad!".  Icch.  Hate that talk.

--Joe

> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Joe,
> 
> You need to understand what a koan really is. A koan is not some clever words 
> on a page in a zen book. A koan is an intellectual mystery whose solution 
> leads you to a true understanding of the reality beyond.
> 
> Reality itself as it manifests in the world of forms is THE ULTIMATE 
> intellectual mystery. And thus the ultimate koan..
> 
> Solve it and you encounter reality...




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