I don’t mean to sacrifice this moment for the future. I don’t mean to be bound by a past life and to try to escape from it. It’s not the kind of effort you usually make. But there’s a more important point in your effort. To stand on your feet [laughs] is the most important thing. If you sacrifice this moment for your future, for your ideal even, it means that you are not standing on your feet. So, the most important thing is to accept yourself, to have subjectivity in each moment. Or, to accept yourself and don’t make any complaints, and accept things as it is, and satisfy yourself with what you have right now. And you should think, this is the only reality, only Buddha you can see, you can experience, you can have, you can worship.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-10-00-C as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.
