But for many hundreds of years before Dogen
Zenji, this point was not so clear. [see prior days' posts] In Zen, there were many schools--
five or seven. And each school, including Soto, was supposed to be the best,
you know, school of all the schools of Zen. They say, you know, “Best school.”
But to say “best school” is to put limitation [laughs] to their own way
[laughs]. If it is really best school, there is no need to say so. So in this
sense, each school will be the best one for him. So it is silly to say, “This
is best school,” or “This tradition or lineage is the right one.” This kind of
silly understanding sneaked into our zazen practice. And when we realize what
is zazen, what we have been practicing was not right--was
not zazen anymore. We call it “fox zazen.” ---------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-12-01=B as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay.x
