“the heavy, deliberate motions of an ox and the penetrating glare of a ferocious tiger.”
He was, for example, inordinately fond of sweets. This weakness must have been well known in Zen circles, for Tōrei said that when he arrived at Shōin-ji for his first meeting with the master, he took as a gift a bag of sugared goodies he had picked up along the way.
In recent times, however, the Zen schools have been engaging in the practice of “silent illumination,” doing nothing but sitting lifelessly like wooden blocks.