Tag: poem
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Mu as a Null Pointer
Core dumped Mu! is the null pointerthat segfaults the mindas smoke drifts through the zendo. — EE Thompson Image of Reflection Model (Rashomon) by Takahiro Iwasaki Joshu’s Dog A monk asked Joshu, a Chinese Zen master: “Has a dog Buddha-nature or not?”Joshu answered: “Mu.” — Mumonkan #1, translation by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps Joshu’s…
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Already There
Surely if I learned the intricacies of biophysics,making proteins dance inside a vast sea of transistors,I can learn the Buddhadharma. Surely if I transformed the silent beat of a conductor’s batoninto the audible, angular rhythms of the Rite of Spring,I can transform my mind. Surely if I found a barely marked campsitein the surreal, monochrome…
