Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye

by Brad Warner

So what he’s talking about here is the ordinariest of the ordinary. In this chapter he quotes Great Master Musai, who expressed his enlightened state saying, “Having finished a meal, I calmly look forward to a nap.” And then he quotes Zen Master Enchi Dai-an, who summed up the accomplishments of his life as a Buddhist master saying: “I lived on Isan mountain for thirty years, eating Isan meals, shitting Isan shit.”