Attribution

Important note: All the posts on this blog were written by Bob Harwood (AKA 'zendancer') on the forum spiritualteachers.proboards.com. I have merely reposted a collection of them in blog format for the convenience of seekers. Some very small mods were made on occasion to make posts readable outside of the forum setting they were made in.

An old Zen Master

...went around saying to himself, "Be careful; be careful; don't be deceived." He would then answer himself, "Okay, okay. I'll be careful." This eventually became the basis for a well-known koan:

An old master questioned himself and answered himself; which one was the real master?