To have renunciation is our way, which is pretty difficult. This is the point many of our Zen masters had difficulty in their true practice because it is not a matter of successful or unsuccessful. It is a matter of how to handle themselves or how to understand the way to work on it. This is a very subtle point. No one else but you can help you.
—Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-04-23-B - as found on
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Kobun Chino, Sumi Togen and Shunryu Suzuki at Tassajara 1967