A monk asked Ummon: "What is it that surpasses the Buddhas, surpasses the patriarchs?"
Ummon replied: "Buns."
— Zen Mondo
Zen stories can have an element of the absurd that Samuel Beckett or Woody Allen would envy. One question this story raises is whether Ummon is referring to something you eat (like hot cross buns) or to the posterior.
What do you think?
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