If you point at one point of the earth, you point at the whole universe. Whatever it is, it doesn’t matter. If you compare one thing to another in a materialistic way, you are caught by an idea of freedom or of restriction. But if you have this kind of understanding of reality, all the being, all of something that is, is Buddha.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-08-17N as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.
