For me to be here right now is naturalness. And to wear a robe is naturalness. And to shave my head is naturalness, as a priest [laughs]. We should practice in this way, and we should remember this. It is not so easy [laughs] to be natural. Not so easy.
Ordination of Dan Welch and Peter Schneider at City Center, May 1970
—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.
