Our teaching in its wide sense is everything. In its narrow sense, a teaching is something which was told by some sage. That is the teaching in its narrow sense. But in its wide sense, everything is the teaching for us: the color of a mountain, the sound of a river, even the sound of a motorcar is a teaching of Buddha. We understand in this way.
Photo by Gene DeSmidt
—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.