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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Expectations

Although everything, including self, changes always, we expect everything not to change [laughs]. This is also double structure of our nature. On one hand everything changes, and on the other hand we try not to think everything changes. And so there we have suffering. When we expect things not to change, but actually everything is, everything betrays our hope [laughs]. That is how, you know, we suffer.

—Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-06-28 - 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.