



You are most free and relaxed when using the toilet.

If you have one mind, even at that time you can get enlightenment.

I don't know the context in which Zen Master Man Gong spoke these words, but I can hear in them a distant echo of Yun Men.

There are those who claim that practice involves a special setting (a monastery or mountain cave), a special form (upright sitting meditation), a special technique (just the right mantra or koan), or special status (ordination).

But if awakening is conditional on external factors, what use is it?

With that question, I'm taking my one mind (the only one I have) off to the bathroom.

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After writing this post, I came across another of Man Gong Sunim's aphorisms that seems apt:

No one can attain true peace if they are controlled by their situation.