The Zen Master and the Hot Dog Vendor

摘要

In the April 2009 issue of this Journal, Dennis Ryan in thearticle titled "Zen Hot Dog Molecules" (1) relates the storyabout the Zen master and the hot dog vendor: when facing anoverwhelming number of choices the Zen master said to thehot dog vendor, "Make me one with everything." It may be lesswidely known that when the same Zen master asked for the restof his