As you know, I like
stones very much, but especially big ones. Someone came to me the other day
with a magnifying glass and said, "Look at those stones." So I looked
at them one by one. But to my great astonishment, those small stones were
exactly the same as big ones! They were as interesting as big ones, the shapes
were different, and some had very good shapes. You could make a beautiful
garden with those stones. I was very pleased. I thought, this is what the
universe consists of and how everything is going. So, if you cannot accomplish
something great, you can work on a very small thing, in a very small scale, and
the meaning is not any different at all. This is the nature of our practice and
teaching. -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-02-00-E as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC
