If you cannot see what buddha-nature [taps] actually is, it doesn’t mean anything [laughs]. That would be a painted rice cake; it is not an actual one. If you want to see an actual rice cake, you should see it when it is there.
From a silkscreen by William DeRaymond
—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.