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Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Perfection

There is nothing that’s perfect. The teaching of selflessness means nothing is perfect. We think it is possible to get contact with something or to understand or to grasp something perfect or to attain some stage of perfection. But according to Buddhism that is not possible, [laughs] it is not possible. When you understand that is not possible, that understanding is perfect understanding, [laughs] and that is enlightenment. [Laughter.]

—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.

Shunryu Suzuki and Richard Baker next to cabin at Tassajara, 1968