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# re: Answer:
I never knew
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# It's like the Zen story of the goose in the bottle.
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# please, tell it to me
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# Ok.
It's an old story used in Zen communities -- someone put a baby goose into a bottle and continued to feed the goose until it was too big to get out.
The question the Zen student must answer is: how do you get the goose out of the bottle without hurting the goose, or breaking the bottle.

The most well-known answer was given by the master Nansen, who was asked by a great philosophical official of the time, Riko, to explain the story of the goose in the bottle.

"If a man puts a gosling into a bottle," said Riko, "and feeds him until he is full-grown, how can the man get the goose out without killing it or breaking the bottle?"
Nansen gave a great clap with his hands and shouted: "Riko!"
"Yes, Master," said the official with a start.
"See," said Nansen, "the goose is out!"
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# so
he was talking shit, then
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# but knew the sound of
one goose flapping
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# that doesn't get the goose out of the bottle
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# there is no spork
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# just as well
i'm eating soup, you need a spoon for that.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 0:58, archived)
#
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spork

tho you may prefer a foon
(I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 1:02, archived)
# sporks are great
but spoons are best for soup
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# there is no spork
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# i know
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# Wasn't it something about feeding and feeding the goose, until it's so fat
that its liver becomes quite a delicacy and the monk renounces Zen and retires on the proceeds?
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 0:30, archived)