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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Accept

When you eat, for instance, you would rather eat something sweet and nice. But actually, whatever it is we should be ready to accept and eat, without saying, “This is delicious,” or “This is not so good.” When you want to have something more, you should come back to our conviction.

?, Sue Isaacson, Pam Chernoff, Georgette (Iva) Jones, Meg Gawler, David Cohn, Joe Cohen, Susan Wender, Terry Gragg

cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 69-04-19 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.