One practice includes various virtues, and one feeling of practice will result in various feelings like waves on the sea. So, we say, “One practice covers everything”—various virtues. And when you practice in that way, you may be a piece of stone, you may be a tree, you may be a star, you may be an ocean. So, you cover everything.
Image 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.
