The fool gets the first enlightment

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There was once a group of learned Buddhist monks who spent all their time in

scholastic debate. As part of their banter they would often wonder, half-joking,

half-seriously, which one of them would attain enlightenment first....

Whenever this topic came up, the only thing they could all agree on was that it

would not be Stupid, the illiterate monk who was capable only of sweeping the

monastery floor and whom nobody has any time for.

Of course, it was Stupid who got enlightened first. The jealous monks went to

the Abbot. How come Stupid had attained enlightenment first? Had he been

overhearing their intellectual conversations?

“Not at all,” replied the Abbot. “It’s just that while he was sweeping the

corners of the monastery he made sure he was also sweeping the corners of

his mind.”