A. Student: ‘I am doing nothing.’
Master: ‘Then you are sitting at leisure.’
Student: ‘Sitting at leisure is also doing.’
Master: ‘You say you are doing nothing. What are you not doing?’
Student: ‘Even saints don’t know it.’
Commentary:
He can be said to know how to do nothing.
If you knew who does what, you would know how to do nothing.
©Boo Ahm
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