Alan Rappaport: Docho Roshi, I am very afraid a lot of the time. I think I’m afraid of being hurt, and then lost. Can you help me?
SR: Lost? No, that is not possible. You are here, and there is no need to be afraid because anyway you are changing. If you are afraid of always changing, maybe that is why you are afraid. But if you are changing always, why don’t you try to change for the better? As long as you are making that effort, there’s no need to be afraid of anything. Even a little bit of change for the better will work.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-11-11 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.