Student: I've heard people say that Zen is more interested in the individual alone, and not so much in the society as a whole.
SR: All over the world including stones, and trees, and everything; that is our way. Not only human beings. So, we are not interested in so-called individual practice. We do not acknowledge any self, you know.
—Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-00-00-B - as found on
shunryusuzuki.com
edited by PF. Go to
instagram.com/cuke_archives or cuke.com/ig
for links to the full Shunryu Suzuki lecture and the source of the photo (at Tassajara by Gene DeSmidt).
