A "mondo", which is not too much known in Zen, but I translate it word by word, so do not be irritated.
A student meets Joshu (a famous monk often showing up in Zen mondos), and asks him: "What does it mean to be holy?"
Joshu answers: "To lower a big heap of sh!t in the open plain."
The perplexed student asked: "What, please explain."
Joshu said: "Stop f#cking my brain."
And Hui-Neng, sixth Chan-Patriarch in China, commented on the practice of excessive Zazen (sitting in meditation) like this:
"A living, who sits and does not lie,
a dead who lies and does not sit.
In the end they are all
just dirty skeletons.
Praying at the direction of Mekka in space - that must be the climax of absurdity. I recommend they also take a compass, a lifejacket and a parachute with them. - They also must not turn their backs on Mekka while in space, with the station orbiting the planet and the planet constantly revolving.
