Thursday, May 11, 2017

Joy

This naturalness is very difficult to explain. But if you can just sit and have nothingness in your practice, whatever you do, coming out of the nothingness, that is the naturalness and that is true activity, because you have true joy of practice, true joy of life in it. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-06-01 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay, not just the super cool ones,.