Sublime

Shunryu Suzuki Roshi,

Suzuki Roshi,

Rinzai Roku (a celebrated Zen text of the T’ang dynasty) and the teachings of Bankei, the seventeenth-century Japanese master who, for me, represents Zen at its best.

“A roshi is a person who has actualized that perfect freedom which is the potentiality for all human beings. He exists freely in the fullness of his whole being. The flow of his consciousness is not the fixed repetitive patterns of our usual self-centered consciousness, but rather arises spontaneously and naturally from the actual circumstances of

Living Buddhist Masters.

A master who cannot bow to his disciple cannot bow to Buddha.

—Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special: Living Zen