[ This way of treating objects carefully, carrying one by one with two hands and so forth] It is a kind of Japanese habit and this kind of
idea originated from Dogen Zenji's way. ...And we do it without
asking why. We just do it because we respect it. That is even more than
respect. To respect things is something dualistic. “To be one with it,” we say.
When we become one with it, there is no idea of big or small. Smaller things is
easier to be one with it, and simpler things is easier to practice one of the
duality. We do not even figure out why we do this. -------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-12-06-B as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC
