Our activity is cosmic activity and personal activity. So, there is no need to explain what we are doing. When you want to explain it, that is all right, but because it is impossible to understand you should not feel uneasy. You know, actually you are here, right here. Before you don’t [thumps stick] understand yourself, you are you. After you understand, you are not you anymore [laughs].
Shadow screen of Shunryu Suzuki created by Al Wong
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 69-03-30 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.