Sublime

I had one traditional teacher, Doug Spitz, but the way I was taught was very nontraditional.

“I devote my life to technology.... I am going to Manchuria to do some creation” (sōsaku o

In the old times, a teacher let his students grovel for ten years, working very hard, one disappointment after another, until their egos were totally ground into the dirt, totally gone. Only then would they have experiences of Essence.

The realm of dainin—great people or true adults—has yet to begin. You could say that we are now living in an era of barbaric humanity, a sort of prehistory. We haven’t yet begun a historical period of true humanity. Now, it’s just primitive human beings being led by the nose by greed. It’s like a frenzied world of people just scraping and clawing a

The acorn draws the line, and no one can force it to cross into the territory of its incompetence. It is as if the oak cannot bend or pretend to be a lovely poplar. As the acorn brings gifts, it sets limits, and only if the school allows intuition into the tuitional methods of the teacher can a bridge be thrown across, allowing the gift to emerge f