Attaining true Zen

We have been reading Zen koans and discussing them... so tonight we read a rather weird one about what is the most valuable thing in the world. We were discussing what makes something valuable and what had value to them. Trying to tease out what was valuable to Ben, I asked "If the house was on fire and you could only grab one thing as you were running out, what would it be?"
Apparently Ben is a Zen master already. He answered, "A fire extinguisher."

Oh, to have that kind of clarity.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I can not resit the temptation - you ask the stupid question you will get the stupid answer - what did you think he will get with him - the box of matches?
Olga

Katya said...

No. I thought he would grab his Owly books or his Legos or his rock collection!

Tina in CT said...

I like Ben's logic!

Anonymous said...

good man...

leo

Anonymous said...

well,
Leo is right - good man
Olga