Study Hall

Michael Wenger made the point in his talk on Saturday, that Suzuki Roshi was skilled at explaining the complex ideas of Buddhism in very simple language, and I came across this example in my reading this morning: "So when you encounter things, you should know that right there the true teaching reveals itself. You should know that place".
These two sentences are so simple that it is easy to gloss over them, but to my mind today, they encapsulate the fundamental point of our practice, and nothing more need be said. Indeed he closes that talk by apologising for saying too much. 
This talk was dealing with the lines from the Sandokai that read:
          "Each of the myriad things has its merit according to function and place.  
           Phenomena exist, box and lid fit; principle responds, arrow points meet",
but it also brought to mind Dogen, and his phrase shoho jisso or 'all things are ultimate reality', and also "here is the place, here the way unfolds" from the Genjo Koan.
Suzuki Roshi goes on to caution his students about how they understand this point: "Usually, even though you say 'I see things-as-it-is', you don't. You see one side of reality and not the other. You don't see the background, which is ri; you only see things in terms of ji, the phenomenal side of each event, and you think each thing exists only in that way, but it is not so".