After
several students spent
several days sitting patiently on
several million blades of grass, the
Zen Master came back to ask them for their answers to his
question: Who is the Great One who makes the grass green?
One student said
hesitantly, "
I am?"
The
Master looked at him
sternly and said,
effectively, "
Oh yeah? And who is that 'I' you're
talking about?" The student promptly went back to
meditating.
Another student said
calmly, "I am", and again the Zen Master
questioned him, "Who is that 'I' you're talking about?"
"There is
only one I," the
student replied. And the Zen Master let him
go home.
(I give
Thanks to several
Zen books and
Robert Anton Wilson for this information.)