26th February

It is right to spare the lives of all conscious beings,
such as animals, and even insects. But what about killing time?
And wasting wealth? There are many ways of killing.
Preaching without being enlightened for example.
This is killing Buddhism.
Ga-san

Killing, as here described, is defined as shutting down the natural flow,
of shutting down life. To teach without the knowledge of Zen, of
knowing and living in the natural flow of life, would be a denial of
living in that flow.