Longchen Rabjam - The Decisive Experience

[Mike 03]

7. This post has been on my mind since you wrote it.

Last night I had a dream about your metaphor of eyeglasses being taken apart and your answer, "It ceases being eyeglasses when I say so."

This morning I was thinking about the koan MU. A student asks Master Zhaozhao, "Does a dog have Buddha nature?" Master Zhaozhao answered, "Mu."

This could be off base, but my answer this morning was, "Mu means what I say it means."

Students get stuck on this koan. Maybe we are trying to figure out what Mu means to everyone but "ourselves"; to Zhaozhao, or to his student, or to our teachers, or to someone else who has written commentary on this koan.

Of course, there's probably more to it, but is that one way of looking at Mu?

This opens a can of worms in a way, because who is the "me" that decides what Mu means?