SOCL 2001 Lecture : Lectures
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Zen story: shaolin temple: this young boy comes to the temple and knocks on the gate and an old monk opens the window in the gate and says, What do you want! and the boy just says how he wants to enter and he wants to learn the martial arts to protect his family. The boy knocks again and the monk asks why are you still here. The boy still wants to be a monk. The monk asks again why he wants to be a monk. The boy this time says he wants to learn tranquility. The door is slammed in his face again. He knocks a third time and once again the monk asks why does he want to be a monk and this time the boy says i don"t know. This was the correct answer ad he was let in: the only correct answer is i don"t know, ever since i was in 9th grade .