Correction. It should read an ass wiping stick. Anthony
________________________________ From: Merle Lester <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2012, 5:36 Subject: Re: [Zen] original zen huh??????? wiping what.... the toilet or the arse?.. so it's an arse wiping stick? merle Anthony, Merle,I think that the stick is said to have been a bamboo, fashioned so that it could be used in wiping while in the toilet at the Ch'an monasteries of the time, anciently, in China.The stick -- in some translations of the story, and in other important Ch'an story references-- is given as, "shit-wiping stick".Important in Zen history! And obviously now.--Joe> Anthony Wu <wuasg@...> wrote:>> Merle,> > In reply to the question what is Buddha, an ancient zen master said, 'shit on the stick'.> > Anthony
