/prog/ koans

The Sussman served memory. He allocated his visitor's stack full, and then kept on allocating.

The professor watched the stack overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!"

"Like this stack," The Sussman said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your stack?"

This thread is full of amateur "Zen masters" if you think "emptying your stack" or "mind" and allowing "Zen" in leads to something productive. Its results in mindless "Zen" masters  blabbering about abstract "truths" no closer to reality then their dreams. Reality is much more complex then Zen.