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A Zen Harvest Todd Lofton Ego is the Enemy teachesOne of the vital aspects of traditional Rinzai Zen koan study in Japan is jakugo, or capping phrase exercises. When Zen students have attained sufficient mastery of meditation or concentration, they are given a koan (such as the familiar "What is the sound of one hand clapping?") to study. When the student provides a satisfactory response to the koan, he advances to the jakugo exercise he must select a "capping phrase," usually a passage from a poem