Mu (negative)
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Mu is a word which has been translated variously as "not", "nothing", "without", "nothingness", "non existent", "non being", or evocatively simply as "no thing".
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The "Mu" koan
The word mu is central to the following well-known Zen Buddhist koan, which is also known as the Mu koan:
- A monk asked Zhaozhou Congshen, a Chinese Zen master (known as Jōshū in Japanese), "Has a dog Buddha-nature or not?" Zhaozhou answered, "Wú" (in Japanese, Mu)|The Gateless Gate
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See also
- Ma (negative space)
- Multi-valued logic
- Not even wrong
- Null
- Wronger than wrong
- Wu wei, a term in Chinese philosophy
- Wu-Wo tea ceremony
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