In the story of Hyakujo’s Fox, Hyakujo talked to a monk who was forced to be reborn as a fox five hundred times because when asked the question “does a man of enlightenment fall under the yoke of causation or not” he answered with “no, he does not.” When the fox asked Hyakujo what the answer was, Hyakujo responded with “he does not ignore causation .” After this the monk reached enlightenment (Sekida, 31). This story may seem illogical but it expresses the important concepts in Buddhism that there are more than yes or no answers and that one can not ignore nen-thoughts. The monk has only thought of the question as a yes or no question but Hyakujo shows that answers are not just yes or no. Hyakujo’s answer is vague in that he says an enlightened