If we understand the reality that we hope everything will not change and that everything is changing is also true [laughs], that is the two sides of the one reality, then there is no problem. When we say everything changes, “oh, it’s okay” [laughter]. When someone says everything does not change, “oh, that is true, that is okay” [laughter]. When you can accept in this way, even for a moment, that is enlightenment.
—Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-06-28 - as found on
shunryusuzuki.com
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Bodhgaya photo by Eric Arnow