NOBUTOSHI.
Tell me, pray, from which patriarch do the hōka priests derive their doctrine? To what sect do you adhere?
BROTHER.
We are of no sect; our doctrine stands apart. It cannot be spoken nor expounded. To frame it in sentences is to degrade our faith; to set it down in writing is to be untrue to our Order; but by the bending of a leaf is the wind’s journey known.
NOBUTOSHI.
I thank you; your exposition delights me. Pray tell me now, what is the meaning of this word “Zen”?
MAKINO.
Within, to sound to their depths the waters of Mystery;
Without, to wander at will through the portals of Concentration.
NOBUTOSHI.
And of the doctrine that Buddha is in the bones of each one of us ...?