Zen Vs The Temporal Jinx

>When the door is about to close, with one push it opens; when the boat is about to sink, one stroke of the oar and it turns. When a wagon goes into a valley, there’s no way of return. When an arrow goes through the sky, there is a gateway. Tell me, where does it go?"

*This post is drafted in gratitude to a kind soul who guided me to read the canonical material on Zen*

>The aim must go through the target

The masters were not orderlies, meticulously calibrating parameters; even before they began, they had resolved the question of an endgame. Most importantly, they moved under their own power. It is not that they discarded cardinality, but rather that the question is redundant before it is posed.

> When an arrow goes through the sky, there is a gateway. Tell me, where does it go?

This question is not merely a brain teaser but a test of integrity and object permanence. If one freezes when this question is posed, or is otherwise unable to reconcile it completely, we must label such a condition a "skill issue" and administer bonks? hehe.

Thus is the basis of the old tradition of questions and answers. Less like an 'interview', more like a wheel alignment. As many teachers have stated through the ages, "time is not your friend."

\*♥ luv 44-greatrknin\*