During a question and answer session, Angie Boissevain came before Kobun Chino Roshi with a question that had been burning within her all morning. But after she made the customary 3 bows and knelt before him, she found her mind utterly blank and the question is gone. She sat before him in silence for a long time before finally saying: "Where have all the words gone?" "Back where they came from!", replied the teacher.