in the second scroll of wen the eternally surprised a story is written concerning one day when the apprentice clodpool , in a rebellious mood , approached wen and spake thusly : 'master , what is the difference between a humanistic , monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers , and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment ? '