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In the poetry contest in China by
which the Sixth Patriarch of Zen
Buddhism was chosen, there
were two poems. One
said: “The mind is
like a mirror. It
collects dust. The
problem is to remove the dust.”
The other and
winning poem was actually a reply
to the first. It
said, “Where is the mirror
and where is the dust?” ¶
Some centuries later in
a Japanese monastery,
there was a monk who was always
taking baths.
A younger monk came up
to him and said, “Why,
if there is no dust,
are you always taking
baths?” The
older monk replied, “Just
a dip. No why.”
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