If you want
to practice zazen, it is necessary to choose your friends, to have good
friends. To be in good contact with your friends, good friends. Then naturally
you will have good practice. Dogen Zenji says zazen practice is like going
through the mist. If you go through the mist, your robes will be wet; even
though you don't notice it, your robe will be naturally wet. When you go out in
a sudden shower, even though you feel your robe is wet, it doesn't get through
your robe. But when you get wet in the mist, even though you don't feel it, the
moisture will penetrate into your body, even. That is how we should practice
zazen. -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-02-00-A as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC
