Dogen Zenji actually was enlightened when he heard a disciple being hit by his master. “What are you doing? You have to make hard effort. What are you doing here?” His teacher slapped a person who sat next to him, and he was enlightened. That effort is Zen.
—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.
