Everyone seeks for true happiness maybe, but our happiness cannot be true happiness if it is not followed by perfect composure. Usually our happiness does not stay long. Happiness lasts mostly just a very short time and will be lost in the next moment. So, sometimes we will think we’d rather not have it because happiness is usually followed by sorrow. I think everyone experiences this in our everyday life.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-12-21 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.