Dogen left this kind of teaching 900 years ago, but we are still caught by a materialistic understanding of life, and our logic is static logic. You are counting from a bank book [laughs, laughter]. That is static logic. You do not even think in a dialectical way, but before Hegel, Dogen Zenji’s way of thinking was very much dialectical. If you practice Buddhism in its true sense, you will have this kind of freedom of our mind.
—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.
