SR: Good question [laughs]. To whom you are asking [laughter]?
Katherine: To all of you.
SR: Hmm? All of me [laughs]? Do you really understand all of me -- what you see and what you do not see?
Katherine: I don't know that I understand it all. I feel there is much there.
SR: I am here. But before I am here, you know, what exists here? Something you don't know existed [laughs]. I am, you know, someone who exists here who is speaking something. And I am also someone who does not appear in this way. Before I say something-- before I exist here, something is here with all being. And I am both someone who has form and color, and someone who has no form and no color. And you are speaking to someone who has body and mind.
Katherine: Thank you very much. --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-11-11 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Going through Suzuki lectures and posting anything that can stand on its own. Not looking for zingers or "the best of." I find that following these excerpts daily provides another way to experience Suzuki's teaching. - DC