"Words, Words, Words. I'm so sick of words" {My Fair Lady}

I was reading some translation of an old Chinese Zen {Ch'an} patriarch last night and wondered how much they sat and what they had to say about sitting.

What gets captured of the patriarchs, and what most people focus on is the words of Buddhism. But Buddhism per se, I think, is not in words, it's in actions, and mostly in the action of sitting. Wouldn't it have been great if Buddhist patriarchs and matriarchs had left their record their sitting as well!