Student: In zazen, if the cushion before your eyes begins to glow, or you see the bodhisattvas blinking their eyes...
SR: What is happening? Maybe that is a good experience. But sometimes it is because of bad breathing exercise. If it is a healthy good experience for you, of course that is very good. But sometimes it is just some created idea because of your unhealthy practice. I mean it is not always good, you know.
From Columbia U oral history Be-In page
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 69-03-15 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.