Shattered a wooden rice bowl completely on purpose
Dogen famously refused to let his students get attached to absolutely anything, even their most basic dinnerware. To prove his point, he once took a perfectly good, highly practical wooden rice bowl and violently smashed it on the ground right in front of everyone, proving that taking care of your kitchen inventory is entirely secondary to philosophy.

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