I don’t really know anything about the Tyvar of Arlos, so I’m pretty confused on this front, but I’m fairly sure you’re relating a Talmudic anecdote, not a Zen one ;-). “Forbidden, permissible, laudable, or obligatory” says to me that we’re contemplating halachah.
I don’t really know anything about the Tyvar of Arlos, so I’m pretty confused on this front, but I’m fairly sure you’re relating a Talmudic anecdote, not a Zen one ;-). “Forbidden, permissible, laudable, or obligatory” says to me that we’re contemplating halachah.
I would hope you don’t know anything about them—they were made up on the spot. ^_^
And yes, I suppose the style here might well have been influenced from more than one place.