Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘Student E [Stan White]: Docho Roshi, Zen is impossible! I will continue to practice.
SR: If you know that you are here moment after moment, that is already practice.
Student F [Alan Winter]: Docho Roshi, speak to us of the search for the true path.
SR: True path. True path. Don’t think there is some special path which is true or false.
Student F: Then of each of our own paths?
SR: Do your best on every moment. Finding your position and reacting properly to everything.
Student F: That’s all that I can do?
SR: Yes.’ (from the Suzuki Roshi Archive)

This nicely matched pair of questions-and-answers was the launchpad for a lively discussion last Monday. I like how the first question points to the Bodhisattva Vows, and in the second Suzuki Roshi evokes the Genjo Koan.