Everyday Mind Is Dao

You may say, “If everyday mind is true mind, whatever we do doesn’t matter; that is dao. To sneak into some other’s field and get a sweet melon, and eat it in hot summer weather is dao [laughs]. Whatever you do, that is dao.” You may understand it that way, but actually, what it means is to feel big mind through our everyday practice. —Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-04-23-A - as found on shunryusuzuki.com edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives or cuke.com/ig for links to the full Shunryu Suzuki lecture and the source of the photo.

Other Pain or Problems

Many times I said that even though you feel you do not make any progress in your practice, and even though you have many problems in your practice, it may be better not to quit sitting because if you quit sitting you will not have the pain in your legs, but instead of that pain you will have another pain [laughs]. So this pain in your practice will be much better than the pain or problems you will have in city life or in some other way. —Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-04-23-A - as found on shunryusuzuki.com edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives or cuke.com/ig for links to the full Shunryu Suzuki lecture and the source of the photo.

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Problems

If you can accept yourself completely, then you are not in this world any more [laughs, laughter]. That you have problems means you are still alive. That is our way. And even if you make a trip to another world, [laughs] you will have same problems, as long as you have your body and mind. That is how things exist in this world. —Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-04-23-A - as found on shunryusuzuki.com edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives or cuke.com/ig for links to the full Shunryu Suzuki lecture and the source of the photo.

Sides

Dogen Zenji says, “When one side is described, the other side is dark.” We cannot describe both ways [at once]. That is why we describe just one side of the Truth. But if you have ears to listen to it, eyes to read it, you should be satisfied with one description, because you know there is the other side. —Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-02-00-F - as found on shunryusuzuki.com edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives or cuke.com/ig for links to the full Shunryu Suzuki lecture and the source of the photo.

Photographs by Judith Keenan

Another article by Lawrence Shainberg on his birthday

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by Lawrence Shainberg 

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The 6th Patriarch Sutra in Tibetan

 Introduction to The Platform Sutra in Tibetan

Ken Ireland wrote:

After more than 3 years of work, interrupted by Covid but continued by means of the internet, Kempo Kunga Dakpa and I are pleased to announce that The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is now available in Tibetan for the first time in over a thousand years. We have completed a meticulous draft of one of the key texts of Zen practice. Dakpa and I are currently looking for scholars to check the manuscript before publication.

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Attainment

When we say “attainment,” the meaning is actually very different from the usual connotation of the word. By attainment we mean not the result of practice, but that everything is attainment. So, even though I call it attainment, it may be the practice. —Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-02-00-F - as found on shunryusuzuki.com edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives or cuke.com/ig for links to the full Shunryu Suzuki lecture and the source of the photo.

Skillful Devices

Usually people respect the First Principle rather than skillful devices. But in this sutra, Buddha put emphasis on skillful devices instead. This means that Buddha put emphasis on mercy. The way to help people with skillful devices is the most important point. And to find each one's own position, responsibility, and meaning of life, and to find the joy of life in the activity near at hand, or the previous attainment, is the most important point. —Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-02-00-F - as found on shunryusuzuki.com edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives or cuke.com/ig for links to the full Shunryu Suzuki lecture and the source of the photo.

Unhappy

For a bodhisattva, to be unhappy is also good. For the usual person, to be unhappy is a terrible thing. —Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-02-00-F - as found on shunryusuzuki.com edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives or cuke.com/ig for links to the full Shunryu Suzuki lecture and the source of the photo.

Friendly With Each Other

Most people think, if we become friendly with each other, we will be lost. The only way is to have hard competition. If it is necessary, we should even fight or reject others’ opinions. And we should stick to our own way. That is what we are doing.

Before you actually practice our way, you have this fear, but if you practice our way, there is no such problem at all, as you must have seen. If you have even the faintest idea of this truth, then it will be a great help for you.

—Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-02-00-F - as found on shunryusuzuki.com edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives or cuke.com/ig for links to the full Shunryu Suzuki lecture and the source of the photo.

Jerry Fuller, Niels Holm, Bruce McAllister at the SFZC City Center, 1979