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A new koan:

  If you have some ice cream, I will give it to you.

  If you have no ice cream, I will take it away from you.

It is an ice cream koan.

Date: 2010-07-01 02:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grizzlyzone.livejournal.com

Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand?

— Hakuin Ekaku

Date: 2010-07-01 03:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] furrbear.livejournal.com
Listen carefully

Date: 2010-07-01 04:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geometrician.livejournal.com
If you have a bowl of rice, I will take it from you.

If you have nothing, I will take it from you.

Date: 2010-07-01 10:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] furrbear.livejournal.com
Rice bowl koan just doesn't have the same ring to it though, does it?

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