Student: „Teacher, which are the words I can say?“

Teacher: „You can say any word, Ragetsu. You see: Words are for everyone.“

Student: …

Teacher: „Yes, it can make one quite speechless, can it not.“

Student: „It is not that, teacher, which I was contemplating about.“

Teacher: „What was it then?“

Student: „It would have sounded more natural to me if you had said Lemmata are universal in their utterability, teacher.“

Teacher: „Yes, that is what I was saying.“

(aus: Kawasaki Saburō, Zen in Modern Japan)