If You Can’t Find the Truth Right Where You Are, Where Do You Expect to Find It? - Dogen

Harry Roberts, a teacher of mine, used to tell a story about how his teacher chose the students he would accept. Many more students wanted to work with him than he could accommodate. His teacher would say to the student, “Go find ten different kinds of plants.” If the student walked away and began looking for plants, she was not accepted. The person who did not leave but instead looked down, standing right where he was, was accepted as a s