You think we have buddha-nature within ourselves as innate nature, and because of this nature we do things. That is the usual understanding of nature [laughs]. But that is not Dogen’s understanding. It is not like a seed which is there before the plant comes out. That is not a correct understanding of nature…Only when something appears, there there is nature.
From A Flora of Tassajara by David Rogers
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 69-04-20 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.