You will have expedient ability when you do not think that what you are doing is the absolute itself. You know it is expedient. But this is something which you should do with kindness, with the same mercy as Buddha’s mercy. That is the actual power we have as a Zen student.
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—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-08-25 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.