Thursday, January 18, 2024

Deeply Involved / Complete Freedom

Usually, ichingyo-zammai is understood “to be completely involved in some kind of practice.” It is so, but at the same time, even though we are deeply involved in a kind of practice, at the same time we should have complete freedom from it. Do you understand [laughs]?

cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-10-12-B as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.