All those difficulties you have in zazen should not take place outside of your mind. All those efforts should be kept within your mind. In other words, you have to accept it. You should not try to make a particular effort based on your small self like: “My practice should be better,” [laughs] “my practice.” Buddha’s practice should be better, but not yours.
—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.
