When you practice Zen you have of course pain in your legs, and mentally you have some difficulty. You will find it is rather difficult to concentrate only on your breathing. And various images will come into your mind. Or your mind will go out for a walk wandering about [laughs]. It is rather difficult for me too, so I think you will find out it is rather difficult.
—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.
