Does a dog have buddha nature?

[Ibn Sina]

@Leo Gura I am wrong about the 'I don't know' part as I read it years ago , but I am right about the rest. 

 

www.buddhism.org/Sutras/2/GatelessGate.htm

Has a dog Buddha-nature? This is the most serious question of all. If you say yes or no, You lose your own Buddha-nature. [1]: see case 18 of Shoyoroku. 

Edited July 5, 2019 by Ibn Sina

[Pouya]

@outlandish Thanks for the explanation

 

[Leo Gura]

Mu is just a pointer for Absolute Infinity.

In essence the koan is telling you: forget about your human self, forget about the dog, and realize that you are the whole fucking universe imagining the human and the dog.

That is Mu.

[Guru Fat Bastard]

Does Buddha nature have a dog?
Rrrruff.

[Corpus]

On ‎05‎/‎07‎/‎2019 at 8:00 AM, Leo Gura said:

Dog is God spelled backwards

Roky Erickson of the 13th Floor Elevators said exactly the same thing shortly before changing his name by deed poll to "Blieb Alien", blieb being an anagram of bible. He also loved his psychedelics. Some would say perhaps a little too much...….