MU

From the Granny Jones Australian Tarot, the Page of Swords; from the Button Oracle, Guitar:

The Page of Swords is like a radar, constantly observing, listening and asking questions to collect information. With little experience in the world, however, he tends to take what he knows and make wide generalizations. He reminds me of the monk who asked his teacher if a dog had Buddha nature, to which the teacher replied 'mu.' Mu can be translated 'without,' but it would be a mistake to assume it was the opposite of answering yes. As Robert Pirsig explains, "Mu becomes appropriate when the context of the question becomes too small for the truth of the answer." The Guitar quote comes from an African proverb: "When the music changes, so does the dance." No concept can pin down anything all the time. Life is in flux and it's mysteries rarely have easy answers.