We say, “be yourself” to be natural. If you say, “This is the way to be natural,” that is not natural [taps table]. Only when you are you in its true sense, in this moment, at this place, that is naturalness. So, there will not be any particular way to be natural.
from a page of Crooked Cucumber
—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.
