Zhaozhou asked a monk, “How many sutras do you read in a day?”

The monk said: “Maybe seven or eight. Sometimes even ten.”

Zhaozhou said, “Oh, then you can’t read scriptures.”

The monk asked, “Master, how many do you read in a day?”

Zhaozhou: “In one day I read one word.”

_{(from Zen's Chinese Heritage by Andy Ferguson; cf Voluntary Simplicity (2008-12-24), Just One Thing (2012-12-02), Mantra - Do Less, Better (2016-12-14), ...) - ^z - 2023-01-07}