I am thinking about Chao-Chou's dog (Chao-Chou sez: Mu, *without*, to the question 'does a dog have the Buddha Nature) and how this might correlate with a chicken on a path to being lunch)
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Chao-Chou's answer has subsequently been interpreted to mean that all such categorical thinking is in fact a delusion. In other words, yes and no are both right and wrong.
In his 1974 novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig translated mu as "no thing", saying that it meant "unask the question". He offered the example of a computer circuit using the binary numeral system:
"For example, it's stated over and over again that computer circuits exhibit only two states, a voltage for "one" and a voltage for "zero". That's silly!
Any computer-electronics technician knows otherwise. Try to find a voltage representing one or zero when the power is off! The circuits are in a mu-state."
Chester's Gorilla
She go MU
