The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself. When you become yourself in that way, you have real enlightenment there. The enlightenment you have in your mind that you attained a long time ago, is not actual enlightenment.
Tassajara Spring Practice Period 1973
—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.
