Even though they say
“this is unusual,” for us Zen students it is not unusual. Only unusual thing is
the thing which can be everything, like, you know, money or gold. You
know [laughs], you can buy everything with that. Maybe like salt, you know:
Whatever you eat, there is some amount of salt [laughs], you know. In this way
our power is something like this, figuratively speaking.---------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-12-02 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.