Chemical Education Today
Letters The Zen Master and the Hot Dog Vendor In the April 2009 issue of this Journal, Dennis Ryan in the article titled “Zen Hot Dog Molecules” (1) relates the story about the Zen master and the hot dog vendor: when facing an overwhelming number of choices the Zen master said to the hot dog vendor, “Make me one with everything.” It may be less widely known that when the same Zen master asked for the rest of his $20 bill back, the hot dog vendor replied, “All change must come from within…”.
Literature Cited 1. Ryan, D. J. Chem. Educ. 2009, 86, 458–459.
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http://www.jce.divched.org/Journal/Issues/2009/Oct/abs1191_1.html Full text (HTML and PDF) with links to cited JCE article Steven A. Meger Department of Science and Math Western Technical College La Crosse, WI 54601;
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