Devotion to the Buddha’s teaching, and no attachment to anything—to anything. When you devote yourself to your practice, you will have the power of understanding through everything. You will have incessant practice because you observe the truth through verbal and non-verbal things. Because you strengthen your devotion you will hear everything as Buddha’s teaching. So, back and forth, you will practice our way endlessly. And, as Dogen Zenji said, without any trace of it, this kind of pure practice will continue forever, endlessly. This is the power we obtain through our practice.
—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.
