After serving in the US army during the occupation of
Japan, Walter Nowick returned to take up the study of Zen at one of the most
severe monasteries in the country, Daitokuji. When, years later, Sean Murphy
asked if he had not found the conditions there daunting, Nowick told him: “If
you want to play the piano in a certain style . . . you find the person who
teaches that style best and do what they say. If you want to do something else,
you do something else. But if you want to learn what they have to teach,
you follow their directions.”
The Third Step East: 183-97; 9, 73, 84, 217, 229, 230]
The Story of Zen: 239, 247, 290-95,
355, 371
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