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What does the first case of the Gateless Gate say?

The opening case records a monk asking Zen master Zhaozhou whether a dog has Buddha-nature, and Zhaozhou answered "Wu" (no). This answer goes against the familiar teaching that all sentient beings have Buddha-nature, and that very contradiction is where the practitioner must work. Huikai comments that the word Wu must not be understood in the sense of nihilism, nor in the sense of existence and non-existence.

From the article “What Is a Koan: The Gateless Gate and the Blue Cliff Record in Zen”

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