yea but not as enlightened as cooking monk
Hyakujo wished to send a monk to open a new monastery. He told his pupils
that whoever answered a question most ably would be appointed. Placing a
water vase on the ground, he asked: "Who can say what this is without calling
its name?"
The chief monk said: "No one can call it a wooden shoe."
Isan, the cooking monk, tipped over the vase with his foot and went out.
Hyakujo smiled and said: "The chief monk loses." And Isan became the
master of the new monastery. |
