Student F: Docho
Roshi, if the president of the United States were to come to Tassajara and say
the earth and the sun were on a collision course, and ask us what we could do,
some of us might say that we could not change what has already collided in this
man's imagination. Actually, the least we could do would be to tell him, “No
moon, no sun,” and show him your wonderful garden.
SR: Yeah. No moon or no sun. But the sun is the sun, the moon is the moon, so the moon-- when moon is really moon, there will not be any collision. There is no need for the moon to be a sun or vice-versa. -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-04-23-B as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC
SR: Yeah. No moon or no sun. But the sun is the sun, the moon is the moon, so the moon-- when moon is really moon, there will not be any collision. There is no need for the moon to be a sun or vice-versa. -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-04-23-B as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC