To talk about the merits of Zen for beginners is like counting others’ treasures. So, we do not talk about the merit of Zen. The only way is to devote ourselves to simple practice with hard effort.
Zendo at Jamesburg
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-12-04-A as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.