In sitting, I think some of you must have found some unusual experience. It means you acquired freedom, whether how you felt about it was pleasant [laughs], whether it was sad or whether it was ecstasy or joy, is not the question. Whatever it is, something that you have found out—or what the experience was—it means you are free from the ordinary framework of your thinking, or way of life.
—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.
