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Q: We have known each other a long time. But still I don't know one thing. In Korea there is a huge painting, bigger than here, and there are many bodhisattvas and Buddhas. I want to know which one is you?
MJSN: You ask me a question and I answer you.
Q: Thank you for your teaching.
 
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nowornever said:
Q: We have known each other a long time. But still I don't know one thing. In Korea there is a huge painting, bigger than here, and there are many bodhisattvas and Buddhas. I want to know which one is you?
MJSN: You ask me a question and I answer you.
Q: Thank you for your teaching.
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1) This isn't a koan
2) There are no "correct answers" to koans
3) Repeating what other people have answered is cheating yourself.
4) You need to explore how the townspeople's behaviour in "The Emperor's New Clothes" might apply to these situations
5) Also explore the concept of "sarcasm" when evaluating the questioner's responses to the answers they are getting, as well as the answers themselves.

6) What do you think this exchange illustrates?

Regurgitating a non-sequitor may seem like wisdom to you, but unless you know why it is done, you are simply a monkey aping human behaviours.
 
"...Jack Wachulewicz: What is wisdom?
Zen Sensei Andrew Piotrowski: You are asking me. I am answering you..."

I attended this Dharma Talk given in Gdansk a few years ago.
I think I understand the answer. And you?
 
I have cleaned the room. Really. How did you know?
Thank you for your teaching. Good teaching.
 
You are so boring and Western. In the East, where life is mystical and deep, you are at one with the room. Which needs to be cleaned. You would also have yellow walls, which is a sad but inevitable side effect of oneness with rooms.
 
Helen said:
You are so boring and Western. In the East, where life is mystical and deep, you are at one with the room. Which needs to be cleaned. You would also have yellow walls, which is a sad but inevitable side effect of oneness with rooms.
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Gah! I am struck to my very core!

No. Wait. I am boring and Western. The former attested to by my wife and the latter by my physical location.

So. Never mind. Carry on.

The walls of the room I'm in are off-white in a creamy sort of way. There is a poster on the wall in front of me painted by my son as a birthday present that shows a huge penguin towering over a partly ruined building. The title is "Penguin Invasion". I wonder what it means?

DINSDALE.

:w2:
 
nowornever said:
"...Jack Wachulewicz: What is wisdom?
Zen Sensei Andrew Piotrowski: You are asking me. I am answering you..."

I attended this Dharma Talk given in Gdansk a few years ago.
I think I understand the answer. And you?
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nowornever said:
Wisdom is: when somebody asks you a question, you answer it. This is what I understand.
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Is giving a non-responsive non-sequitor "answering" a question? Why or why not?

What do you understand about the intent of the answer Piotowski gave? Why do you think he "answered" in the way he did?

Is "answering a question" with false, mistaken, or misleading information still "wisdom"?


nowornever said:
Q: We have known each other a long time. But still I don't know one thing. In Korea there is a huge painting, bigger than here, and there are many bodhisattvas and Buddhas. I want to know which one is you?
MJSN: You ask me a question and I answer you.
Q: Thank you for your teaching.
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What do you think this exchange illustrates?
 
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