NOT ALWAYS SO

This is the secret of the teaching. It may be so, but it is not always so.

Without being caught by words or rules, without many preconceived ideas, we actually do something, and doing something, we apply our teaching.

Suzuki Shunryu, Roshi

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

excerpt from not always so - practicing the true spirit of Zen by Shunryu Suzuki, HarperCollins Publishers 2002