The Zen Training Process, You Know, Is Free, and It's Free

The real tradition is not lineage that goes from one person to another. It's a valid, valid lineage on wonever. But i think the real lineage is the lineage of people who have recognize the freedom and the autonomy of their own being. And so they speak about it in a way that is tailored to their own time and place. The buddhist traditions didn't all come after them but were tailoring their understanding to particular time and place in which they spoke. In fact doctor rols, the first teacher I ever had, he saidto me: 'the teaching needs to be reformulated by every generation' He says we should allow our individuality to express itself through different forms