Editing Unsui (section)

==Etymology==
The term ''unsui'', which literally translates as "cloud, water" comes from a [[Chinese language|Chinese]] [[poem]] which reads, "To drift like clouds and flow like water."<ref name="snyder">Snyder, 44-45</ref> [[Helen J. Baroni]] writes, "The term can be applied more broadly for any practitioner of Zen, since followers of Zen attempt to move freely through life, without the constraints and limitations of '''attachment''', like free-floating clouds or flowing water."<ref name="baroni"/> According to author [[James Ishmael Ford]], "In Japan, one receives unsui ordination at the beginning of formal ordained
practice, and this is often perceived as 'novice ordination.'"<ref name="ford">Ford, 55</ref>

According to the Oxford Dictionary of Buddhism,<ref name="Dict-Budd">Dictionary of Buddhism, 316</ref> the term ''unsui'' is also used for 
{{quote|Ch'an or zen monks who, having achieved enlightenment (''satori'') after an initial period of training under their first master, take to the road in search of other masters. This is done in order to either test their awakening against them or deepen it with them. The term refers to their [[no fixed abode|lack of a fixed abode]] during this period."<ref name="Dict-Budd"/>}}

Therefore, the translation of '''itinerant monk''' found on several Japanese-English online dictionaries.<ref name="wwwjdic">[[Jim Breen]]'s [[WWWJDIC]]</ref><ref name="Jef-dic">[[Jeffrey Friedl]]'s [http://linear.mv.com/cgi-bin/j-e/dict Jeffrey's Japanese<->English dictionary server]</ref>