In a monastery one evening, two monks sat quietly smoking cigarettes. One monk turned to the other and asked, “do you think it is right for us to be sitting here smoking during meditation?” “I don’t know,” said the second monk, “ why don’t you ask your superior and I’ll ask mine?”
They agreed, and the next day the first monk arrived to find the second monk sitting there with a cigarette in his hand. “How can you smoke that cigarette?” he remarked. “I asked my superior if it was all right to smoke while meditating, and he said absolutely not!”
“That’s interesting,” answered the second monk, “I asked mine if it was all right to meditate while smoking, and he said, ‘of course—meditate every chance you get.’”How Long Until Enlightenment