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64 - teacups A student asked Suzuki Roshi why the Japanese make their teacups so thin and delicate that they break easily. "It's not that they're too delicate," he answered, "but that you don't know how to handle them. You must adjust yourself to the environment and not vice versa." p.66. Pauline Petchey, Rinso-in, 1966. |