NP: Some history of the Learned Dogs. Serendipity.

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A monk asked Master Chao-chou, "Has a dog the Buddha Nature or not?" Chao-chou said, "Mu!"

> On Jan 10, 2018, at 5:26 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> From a remark in an essay on The Odyssey, about the old dog therein,
> the writer says that dogs are the philosophical animal as Plato wrote
> about them in The Republic, citing the pages, and I looked them up
> 
> and Plato calls them 'wisdom-loving" in the dialogue with Glaucon
> they are seen as always friendly--they don't bark as the dog doesn't in The Odyssey--
>  to those they already know yet first to sound hostile--bark--at strangers, therefore
> 
> very fitting, in that respect, to be Guardians of The Republic. 
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