Keichu's Wheel

Getsuan said to this students: `Keichu, the first wheel-maker of China, made two wheels of fifty spokes each. Now, suppose you removed the nave uniting the spokes. What would become of the wheel? And had Keichu done thism could he be called the master wheel-maker?'


When the hubless wheel turns,
Master or no master can stop it.
It turns above heaven and below earth,
South, north, east and west.