At least you read beyond Linux handbooks. I suppose you know the one about the two philosophers and the
black and white swans?
"Enlightenment " and "Nirvana"? They are dead trees to fasten a donkey to. The
scriptures? They are bits of paper to wipe mud from your face. The four merits and ten steps? They are
ghosts in their graves. What can these things have to do with you becoming free? --Te-shan
A monk asked Ts'ao-shan: "What is the most prized thing in the world?"
"A dead cat!" Ts'ao-shan responded.
"Why is it so prized?" asked the monk.
"Because no one thinks of its value," the master replied. --Zen mondo
One doubts he meant a literal cat.
A fisherman went fishing in a pond where lived three fishes, one dumb, one smart, one very smart.
The very smart one saw the bait, jumped on and wriggled like crazy.
" Oh, that's an odd one," said the fisherman, and threw it back
The only smart one saw the commotion and asked: "What gives?". So the very smart fish explained and the
smarty did as told.
"hmm" said the fisherman and threw him back too.
By that time the dumb one noticed and both of them had to demonstrate what to do.
Whereupon the Fisherman said "They must all be like that", tucked it in his bag and went home for
breakfast. ---Sufi parable.
Thanks for the advice about empty ponds. Musta bin poll=uted
No empuje a gente más allá de sus límites, impuesto ni natural
Aucune fiche ne correspond aux critères de recherche utilisés.
No hem trobat cap paraula que coincideixi exactament amb
Aquí teniu les paraules alfabèticament més properes.
Pooh knew what he meant, but, being a Bear of Very Little Brain, couldn't think of the words. --The
House At Pooh Corner.
him.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kinz" <jkinz@xxxxxxxx>
To: <psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: Troubleshooting.
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:20:02AM +1200, afme@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > There's a small thing you don't understand.
>
> Oh thats very likely actually. Especially when one considers what I was
> reading....
>
> When Master Foo and his student Nubi journeyed among the sacred sites,
> it was the Master's custom in the evenings to offer public instruction
> to Unix neophytes of the towns and villages in which they stopped for
> the night.
>
> On one such occasion, a methodologist was among those who gathered to
> listen.
>
> "If you do not repeatedly profile your code for hot spots while tuning,
> you will be like a fisherman who casts his net in an empty lake," said
> Master Foo.
>
> "Is it not, then, also true," said the methodology consultant, "that if
> you do not continually measure your productivity while managing
> resources,you will be like a fisherman who casts his net in an empty
> lake""
>
> "I once came upon a fisherman who just at that moment let his net fall
> in the lake on which his boat was floating." said Master Foo. "He
> scrabbled around in the bottom of his boat for quite a while looking for
> it."
>
> "But," said the methodologist, "if he had dropped his net in the lake,
> why was he looking in the boat""
>
> "Because he could not swim." replied Master Foo.
>
> Upon hearing this, the methodologist was enlightened.
>
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