What is our psychological activity within ourselves? And psychological activity which takes place outside of ourselves is delusion [laughs] according to Buddhist psychology. It is delusion. It is not true. It does not exist. So, deluded activity will not result in anything. But true activity, only true activity results in good results.
Drawing by Stan White
—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.
