We human beings always try to control ourselves. When we try to control ourself, it means that we want to feel better. And this desire is just for ourselves. Everything may have desire in its wide sense, but human desire is very dualistic: “We should be in time.” It is only human beings who separate reality and the idea of time.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-09-00 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.
