And “Itself” is Buddha. When you understand something through and through, that is “Itself.” If you understand suffering through and through, that is Buddha. There’s no other Buddha. All the rest of Buddha, including Shakyamuni Buddha, is included in that “Itself.”
—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.