Sometimes you emphasize non-attainment, but other times you speak of exerting your best effort, like exerting our best effort to keep good posture or full lotus. Why speak about effort? Why not simply stay to the teaching of not trying to do anything at all?
Even though I say stay and do whatever you like, you are doing something with some effort. Can you do anything without any effort? No, you cannot. Anyway you have some problem. So, it is better to have some good problem rather than a bad one [laughs, laughter].
—Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-07-24 - as found on
shunryusuzuki.com
edited by PF. Go to
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for links to the full Shunryu Suzuki lecture and the source of the photo.
Dan Welch, Shunryu Suzuki and Bill Shurtleff who asked the question.
