Zen Buddhism is a unique faith inasmuch as it can live comfortably with contradictions. The Zen answer to a question that cannot be answered straight is 'Moo' (also spelled 'Mu'), a word that means 'nothing' or 'your-question-cannot-be-answered-as-it-is- based-on-incorrect-assumptions'.
A monk asked Joshu: "Has a dog Buddha-nature or not?"
Joshu answered: "Moo."
"Have you stopped beating your wife?"
"Moo!"
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Are planes of reality and planes of existence different in Mu logic?
Moo is about complete harmonization contradictions. As a religion, Zen is experiential and entirely subjective. It is life as it is lived--an unfolding process.
Does that mean that planes of reality and planes of existence are the same?
How would you define multiple planes of existence?
The other 'I' was reading up philosophy for class ...She thinks that if her laptop is stored near her head when she sleeps, essences of learning will trickle down directly into her brain...I think she needed a dose of Mu.
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