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From: NEA Today
Date: 20021001
Author:Anonymous

A True Seeker

I teach high school English, and when my seniors read Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, I often put Zen koans on the board for the students to ponder. My little Zen book is loaded with classic koans such as "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"

One morning, I found a student doggedly searching the back of the book. "Are you looking for a specific koan?" I asked. "No," replied the student, "I'm looking for the answers."

Conrad Sienkiewicz

Litchfield, Connecticut

We were having lunch in the school cafeteria. One firstgrade girl turned to her classmate and remarked, "If you ...

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