Do you reckon he was laughed at by his fellow Buddhists for inventing the most pointless thing known to the Religious world?
2006-09-11 02:22:49 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Soleil Noir, excellent point well made!!
2006-09-11 02:28:45 · update #1
Hardly pointless.... through his efforts, he invented the "high-five"!
2006-09-11 02:26:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would be old "One-Armed Hiroshi". He wandered rural Japan in the mid 1500's and was actually a glass maker. He inspired the monks who later coined the term.
ok. I made the whole thing up. What is a koan anyway, some kind of pointy hat?
2006-09-11 09:35:24 · answer #2 · answered by Bran McMuffin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was the famous Buddhist, Sidartha "One-Hand" Gautama. He said it knowing that 2500 years later Bart Simson would say it on TV and enlighten an entire civilization ;)
2006-09-11 09:31:03 · answer #3 · answered by Ms T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"And the monk went forth into the world, and his first disciple spake unto him, saying 'What is the meaning of life? Is it truely 42?' And thus did the monk slap his disciple upside the head"
Ok, not really, but you have to admit, its more amusing than the deaf and invisible woodcutter cutting down all those trees in empty forests.
Hail Eris
2006-09-11 10:01:03 · answer #4 · answered by guhralfromhell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps everybody laughed...except the guy standing next to him who got smacked in the face.
2006-09-11 18:08:38 · answer #5 · answered by Teaim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Or they many have been impressed by the depth of wisom in that koan
2006-09-11 09:24:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try it. You'll become enlightened in ways you never imagined.
2006-09-11 09:25:31 · answer #7 · answered by S K 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋