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• A monk said to Joshu, "I have just entered this monastery.
  Please teach me." "Have you eaten your breakfast?...
• Some professors asked a monk to lecture to them on spiritual matters.
  The monk ascended a podium, struck it once with his stick, and descended....
• A monk said to Joshu, "Your stone bridge is widely renowned, but coming here I find only a heap of rocks.
  Joshu said, "You see only the stones and not the bridge....
• My mother said to me, If you become a soldier, you'll be a general
  if you become a monk, you'll end up as Pope. Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso....
• I asked my mother for a mind of my own, but she said no.
• There is nothing which cannot be answered by means of my doctrine, said a monk, coming into a teahouse where Nasrudin sat.
  And yet just a short time ago, I was challenged by a scholar with an unanswerable question, said Nasrudin....
• There is nothing which cannot be answered by means of my doctrine," said a monk, coming into a teahouse where Nasrudin sat.
  And yet just a short time ago, I was challenged by a scholar with an unanswerable question," said Nasrudin....