Monday, March 16, 2020

Expedient Ability

When you do not think that what you are doing is the absolute itself, you have expedient ability. This is something which you should do with kindness, with the same mercy as Buddha's mercy. That is the actual power we have as a Zen student. -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-08-25 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC