— Dainin Katagiri Roshi
"In Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg describes how her teacher, Dainin Katagiri of the Minnesota Zen Center, used to say 'Have kind consideration for all sentient beings.' Once she asked him, 'What are sentient beings anyway? Are they things that feel?'
"Katagiri told her, Goldberg reports, 'that we have to be kind even to the chair, the air, the paper, and the street. That's how big and accepting our minds have to become.' "
