People write many books about Zen. But they are not true, you know. There is some true dragon which is very difficult to figure out. “What is it? Is this a dragon or a snake [laughs]? Looks like a snake. No good,” some scholar may say. But true zazen sometimes looks like a snake instead of a dragon. So, you cannot say true zazen is a dragon, or a true dragon, or a miniature dragon. It is not possible to figure out. If it takes the same form always, that is not a true dragon.
Art by Kazuaki Tanahashi
—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.
