Opinions!

[firecat]

I did this on Usenet once and got some interesting answers. If I can find the thread in Gooja I will post it in a couple of days.
ETA: I made a comment in this post about what happened on Usenet.

I have had the following in my quote file for a long time. I don't know whether it is an accurate quote or not, but I like it.

Joshu is my favorite Zen Master. It is said that a monk once asked him, To be holy -- what is it like?" Joshu replied, "To dump a mountain of shit on a clean plain." -- Dick Sutphen

What do you think Joshu means?

(X-posted to buddhists)

Comments

[clawfoot.livejournal.com]

The willingness to give up the idea of "perfection," maybe? If you're willing to dump a mountain of shit on a clean plain, you're not attached to the worldly (and rather arbitrary) ideas of beauty and perfection. You're willing to "destroy" something normally seen as beautiful for something normally seen as imperfect or undesirable. You're not bound by the artificial judgments that define things as good or bad.

Just an initial thought.