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Commenter HistoricalLing does have a point. Katsuki Sekida explains:
"Now, 'Mu' means 'nothing' and is the first koan in Zen. You might suppose that, as you sit saying 'Mu', you are investigating the meaning of nothingness. But that is quite incorrect. It is true that your teacher, who has instructed you to work on Mu, may repeatedly say to you, 'What is Mu?' 'Show me Mu,' and so on, but he is not asking you to indulge in conceptual speculation. He wants you to experience Mu. And in order to do this, technically speaking, you have to take Mu simply as the sound of your own breath and entertain no other idea."
In Zen... (read more)
The word "pabulum" (from Latin for "fodder") was once used in English to mean "food for thought". However, it (or "pablum") is now more likely to denote insipid fare. We could reclaim the original meaning—in which case these statements-to-be-pondered are "pabula".