Zen Zen Training - What Are You Doing Around Here?

In the way of training of zen this is very clearly emphasized. Every postulant who's in training assumes immediately that the teacher has given him the brush off to test his sincerity, he says. "You make a damn fool of yourself saying I insist on getting into this thing" He adds: You define yourself as somebody needing help or as somebody with a problem who needs a master in order to be helped out of the problem."