What is Zen? A clean plate

Acharya Prashant
6 min readSep 13, 2020

Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

A monk told Joshu, “I have just entered this monastery. I beg you to teach me.”

Joshu asked, “Have you eaten your rice porridge?”

The monk replied, “I have.”

Acharya Prashant