When you say “just emptiness,” that is the idea of emptiness, not actual emptiness. When we attain emptiness by all parts of our body, that is real emptiness, actual emptiness. When everything exists in its own way and expresses the absolute, we call it a true emptiness.
—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.