The Zen master decided to send a student to found a new monastery and announced that the one who best answered the question would be appointed. Placing a vase of water on the ground, he asked:
- Who can say what it is without naming it?
The eldest of the students said:
- No one can say that this is a wooden shoe.
Then the cook came up, knocked over the vase with his foot and left. He became the abbot of the new monastery.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru