The power which you will obtain by true practice is the mind of hara we need. Here again, it is necessary to switch over your usual way of understanding to an opposite way of understanding. Without working toward the outside, to work inward without trying to achieve anything—to forget—to stop our mind which is working always outward. This is the most important point in Zen.
—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.
