Quotes About Tenzo

Since I didn't have a contract I could show him to make him stay, if Tenzo suddenly vanished I would be left with nothing. Tenzo had given me no words, not "lover," or even "relationship.

I was also told that the Eihei Daishingi (Regulations for Eiheiji Monastery), of which the Tenzo Ky?kun is the first chapter, was one of the easier works of D?gen, since it deals with practical matters.