We bow together, chant together, eat together, sit together, and do many other things together here at the Zen Center. Everybody has different karma. So all people have different situations, different conditions, and different opinions. Even Zen Masters are like this. Ten Zen Masters will have ten different ways of teaching, and each Zen Master will think that his way is the best.
Different opinions result in different actions, which make different karma.
So when you hold on to your own opinions, it is very difficult to control your karma, and your fife will remain difficult. Your wrong opinions continue, so your bad karma continues. But at our Zen Centers, we live together and practice together, and all of us abide by the Temple Rules. People come to us with many strong likes and dislikes, and gradually cut them all off. Everybody bows together 108 times at five-thirty in the morning, everybody sits together, everybody eats together, everybody works together.