The Person of Resolve

"You students, if you wish to achieve the perfection of correct training, you really must be a person of resolve. You are hopeless, if your will power is not strong enough to get rid of circumstantial influences; an earthenware container with a crack can't hold milk in it. A person must believe in themselves and mustn't be misled by others. If you can always be your own host wherever you go what you do will be necessarily right; never vacillate because of others."

Rinzai Gigen Zenji Dai Osho
Excerpt | Rinzai Roku (Sayings and Doings of Zen Master Rinzai)