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A Thousand Hamlets | Beyond the cat's form: The aesthetic epiphany of Zhaozhou's shoe-on-head in Zen koan
A koan: Monks from the eastern and western halls under Master Nanquan Puyuan were fighting over a cat. He happened upon them and said to the assembly, "If you can express the way, you save the cat. If you cannot, I will kill it." No one dared reply, so Nanquan killed the cat. Later, when Master Zhaozhou returned from outside, Nanquan told him what had happened. Upon hearing it, Zhaozhou took off his straw shoes, placed them on his head, and walked out. Nanquan said, "Had you been here earlier, you would have saved the cat."
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