The Easy Way

Usually, we say to climb up to the top of a pole is easy, but it is difficult to jump off. I don’t think this is true [laughs]. To climb up a pole is difficult, but to jump off is not difficult. The way is just to say, “I will do it!” [Laughs.] Because you think climbing up is difficult, it is difficult. When you don’t think, when you trust Buddha, and when you say, “I will do it!” that is the easy way. —cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 69-04-29 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.