…act when you act or while you act there's a famous story which beautifully illustrates the current relationships between east and west. Paul Reps, who wrote, or rather drew a lovely book called Zen Telegrams once asked a Zen master to sum up Buddhism in…

…your action on it is not an interference but an expression of the totality. But the master's English was very bad indeed and Paul Reps had misunderstood him. He had said: don't act but act. And you know that is the sort of attitude that all clergy…

…to go to in England, Agedum Agis act when you act or while you act. There's a famous story which beautifully illustrates the Paul Reps, who wrote, or rather drew a lovely book called Zen Telegrams, once asked a Zen master to sum up Buddhism in one…

…your action on it is not an interference but an expression of the totality. But the master's English was very bad indeed and Paul Reps had misunderstood him. He had said: don't act but act, and you know that is the sort of attitude that all clergy…

…People play games with each other. They play little tricks, they test each other out by saying to somebody: I remember when I met Paul Reps for the first time who wrote that lovely book Zen flesh and Zen bones, and he said to me: well, he said you've…