Whatever you say,
that is not emptiness itself but it is the good expedient or good devices, an expedient ability to instruct people and alter their
conduct. If someone is too rigid, or someone is too partial to
some idea of emptiness, or the relative, or some kind of teaching, we can correct
their understanding by the expedience. So whatever the teachings are, those
teachings are just good devices. And good devices are very important. And to have
power of good devices is one of the important points for us. And so
whatever you do, that activity should be a good device to instruct people
[laughs]. You should be a good example for people. -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-08-25 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC
