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[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)

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[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

That being holy is difficult, unpleasant work.

Or possibly that from the perspective of a holy person, some stuff looks really bad and in need of fixing that looks just fine from a not-holy perspective.

Both of these seem sort of unlikely given my rudimentary understanding of Buddhism.

Perhaps it means "That's a silly question."