Friday, March 8, 2019

Fancy Robes

The great teachers are doing, you know, just enough, and not too much! [Laughs]. Sometimes they wear gorgeous okesa, and beautiful hat, and long staff, beautiful sandal, and beautiful whisk.

You may think, "That is too much!" [Laughs].

Maybe too much, but why they do so is people like it, you know. [Laughter]. 
 --------------------------------------------------  Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki question and answer- 68-00-00-B as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC