One year of life is good. One hundred years
of life is good. If you continue our practice you will attain this stage. But
at first you will have various problems in your practice and it necessary for
you to make some effort to continue our practice. Practice without effort is
not true practice for the beginner. For the beginner the practice needs effort.
So whatever we do that is practice-- that is Zen. So if you think it does not matter whether
you practice or not -- that kind of understanding is completely mistaken. If
you continue, whatever you do, that is practice. If you do everything with
this purpose and this idea that is practice. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-11-02 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.
