Eating Breakfast Comes First

From time to time I like to share something from Dogen’s Extensive Record (this one is #306). It fits very well with our current online practice period work on Instructions for the Cook. I’d say Dogen is very modern, encouraging piercing and all and has a very dry sense of humor. How does it strike you?

Dropping off body and mind is good practice.  Make a vigorous effort to pierce your nostrils.  Karmic consciousness is endless, with nothing fundamental to rely on, including not others, not self, not sentient beings, and not causes or conditions.  Although this is so, eating breakfast comes first.