It is written that on one occasion Notire Basura came upon a wild-eyed monk who was preaching, "Freedom from conditioning comes with the 
freedom from thinking. When the mind is utterly still, only then is there 
freedom for the real to be." 

"Please, oh venerable one, " Notire asked, I want your opinion about my master who sits zazen in the forest totally unmindful of his surroundings, unmindful of his bodily needs, having no memory of his past nor anticipation of his future, whose ony manifestation of life is slight breathing. Is there freedom for the real to be?" 

"oh, yes," the wild-eyed monk averred. " He has achieved freedom from conditioning resulting from his freedom from thinking. He has freedom for the real to be." 

"Oh, " said Notire. " And all the while I thought he had Alzheimer's Disease."