A monk asked Ummon, “What is Buddha?” Ummon replied, “Kanshiketsu!”
Kanshiketsu, literally a “shit-stick”, was used in old times instead of toilet paper. Shit-sticks become dirty to clean us. If this is not a Buddha, then what is? Out of gratitude to the stick, we call them Buddhas.
From The little book of zen
Submitted July 11, 2020 at 08:00PM by GruntVaquero https://ift.tt/3gNMtHB
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