Question

Does a Master Zen have all the time an adapted behaviour, in particular concerning a disciple?
Cannot he make mistakes?
Is he perfect?

Answer from Master Kosen

Certainly the Master can make mistakes, like everyone.
But who can finally say what is a mistake and what is not.
The most important is that life be dragged by a dynamics which itself is not erroneous, then at the end everything makes sense and even the mistakes become truths.

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When the monk Kosen awakens Stéphane the man.

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