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“Suzuki Roshi, I’ve been listening to your lectures for years,” a student said during the question and answer time following a lecture, “but I just don’t understand. Could you just please put it in a nutshell? Can you reduce Buddhism to one phrase?”
Everyone laughed. Suzuki laughed.
“Everything changes,” he said. Then he asked for another question.
Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick (ed.), page 37.
Everything changes and yet everything remains the same - quote from Alan Watts !
ReplyDeleteAka: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose?
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