From the Ground Up | February 23, 2015
It would be really easy to live in
the city and teach at a Zen center and do nothing but Buddhist teaching.
I wouldn’t want to do it that way. I’d rather go out and start working
in the neighborhoods as much as I could, because I think you have to
work the ground for a Buddhist society first. You can’t just leave your
society the way it is and say 'We offer this as one of the teachings.'
You’ve got to help the society get its feet on the ground before those
teachings can begin to flourish.
- Gary Snyder, "Nothing Need Be Done"
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