Road of Kembo

Koan 48, is a difficult one to solve from lower levels of accomplishment, albeit not an impossible task;

I solved this koan in a... Taming, from Ummon's side. Normally, it is completely, an 'enso' (Both Bull and Self Transcended) business, like a busy bee.

First of all, it asks if you know what a Buddhist is, which I am, and then  it asks if you are familiar with Nirvana, which I claim I do by now.

Third, the sea, the sun and, of course, the big fish.

P.S.   48. ONE ROAD OF KEMBO

A Zen pupil asked Kembo: ''All Buddhas of the ten parts of the universe enter the one road of Nirvana. Where does that road begin?''

Kembo, raising his walking stick and drawing the figure one in the air, said ''Here it is.''

This pupil went to Ummon and asked the same question. 

Ummon, who happened to have a fan in his hand said: " This fan will reach to the thirty-third heaven and hit the nose of the presiding deity there.

It is like the Dragon Carp of the Eastern Sea tipping over the rain-cloud with his tail."

[from ''Zen Flesh, Zen Bones'',                                             Paul Reps, Nyogen Senzaki (editors)]