Study Hall

One last entry from 'Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness', something that feels quite relevant to me as ino:
"The secret of the perfect Zen statement is 'it is not always so'. As long as you are at Tassajara, this is our rule, but it is not always so...Even though you think you are practicing Buddha's way, you are liable to be involved in selfish practice when you say 'the way should be like this'. You should definitely say 'this is our Tassajara way'. But you should be ready to accept another way too...To be just yourself is to be ready to accept someone else's opinion too. Each moment you should intuitively know what to do. But this does not mean that you should reject the opinions of others".