"You may say that it is not possible to be
ordinary and holy. When you think this
way,
your understanding is one-sided. In
Japanese,
we call someone who understands things
from
just one side a tamban-kan, "someone
who carries
a board on his shoulder." Because you
carry a
big board on your shoulder, you cannot
see the other
side. You think you are just an ordinary
human,
but if you take the board off, you will
understand,
"Oh, I am Buddha, too. How can I be
both Buddha
and an ordinary human? It is amazing!"
That is
enlightenment."

- - Shunryu Suzuki


>From "not always so" -- Harper Collins 2002




















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