"Suzuki Roshi, I've been listening to your lectures for years," a student said during the question-and-answer time following a lecture, "but I just don't understand. Could you just please put it in a nut-shell? Can you reduce Buddhism to one phrase?"

Everyone laughed. Suzuki laughed.

"Everything changes," he said. Then he asked for another question.

David Chadwick, To Shine One Corner of the World