catch it nimbly with soft cotton

When someone tosses you a tea bowl
— Catch it!
Catch it nimbly with soft cotton
With the cotton of your skillful mind!

~ Ikkyu, Bankei Zen [Peter Haskel, trans.]

Wish the Twins had him.

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