> >Both the simple peasant and the learned Zen master sweep the floor every
> >morning. The Zen master realises that it is all pointless and without
> >meaning, but he does it anyway. And that *is* the point.
>
> I recently had an experience in which I suddenly understood certain koans.
> But your statement I don't get. I don't know what you mean when you say
> that the point is to do something pointless.
Most people get confused because they make things overly complicated. Or
their sentences too long. Your sin is the latter. Try, "I don't know
what you mean when you say that the point is to do something."
Know what I mean?
-Prof. Tim