zafu
n.— «The bathroom is our meditation place. It acts as a Dojo (Japanese word for the place where Zen meditation is done) and the toilet is our Zafu (Japanese for the black cotton cushion used in Zen meditation).» —“Living Room and The Toilet: Deconstructing Reality by Decontextualizing Daily-lifeSpaces” in Barcelona, Spain Absolute Arts June 3, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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