Without true practice it is impossible to realize our true nature. Of course, what we do in our everyday life, whether we are aware of it or not, is based on our true nature. True nature drives us to do things, but if you do not understand, or if you do not realize what true nature is, and if you have no system to know the actual meaning of your true nature, you will get into confusion.
Drawing by Stan White
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-26-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.
