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marnanelThe koan thing has always messed with my head. I once had a coworker who converted to Buddhism and got very excited about koans, and for the first few months we had conversations like this:
Me: I can't decide how best to fake up the credit card handling on the staging server. Any thoughts?
Him: Does a man who owns a forest buy his own axe?
Me: I don't know.
Me: ....
Him: ....
Me: Hey, I have a friend who owns some woodland. I could phone him and ask?
It might not have been that particular sentence, I forget now, but I could never make anything of things he said like that. He stopped doing it after a while.
Someone explained the "one hand clapping" one to me once so I get that.
Me: I can't decide how best to fake up the credit card handling on the staging server. Any thoughts?
Him: Does a man who owns a forest buy his own axe?
Me: I don't know.
Me: ....
Him: ....
Me: Hey, I have a friend who owns some woodland. I could phone him and ask?
It might not have been that particular sentence, I forget now, but I could never make anything of things he said like that. He stopped doing it after a while.
Someone explained the "one hand clapping" one to me once so I get that.
