You are trying to make a generalization. It won't work.
Mu-nan's wife became a successful sandal merchant. Or maybe she opened and inn, or got remarried to someone more reliable. Or maybe they starved to death when he didn't return.
"spend all your energy making yourself precious and ignore the world as it crumbles to dust around you" is not Zen.
Mu-nan's wife became a successful sandal merchant. Or maybe she opened and inn, or got remarried to someone more reliable. Or maybe they starved to death when he didn't return.
"spend all your energy making yourself precious and ignore the world as it crumbles to dust around you" is not Zen.