If your effort is based on big mind, you cannot get out of it. It is so big that you cannot get out of it. But if your small self starts to act without any care of big mind, that is not Zen. What you do should be well taken care of by big mind. So, our practice should be based on big mind. Then the pain we have in our legs is the same, but how we handle it is quite different.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-12-11-A as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. These posts are also on Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram. We are continually working on improving the quality of transcriptions of Suzuki's lectures. After a new "verbatim transcript" is made, we create a minimally edited version which is more readable. See the most recently completed transcripts at shunryusuzuki.com/n.
