If your mind is always caught by big or small, then that mind cannot catch anything. Ours is the subtle mind. You may say, mind which is soft and tender. By tender I don’t mean some emotional feeling but some, you know, subtle feeling that will be obtained by our practice. And so the mind we will obtain by our practice is something which is very subtle and at the same time it is very great. This kind of mind is Zen mind. --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 67-12-04-A - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.
