If you ignore true “I,” which chooses “What should I do?” then you will be lost in duality. “What shall I do? This way or that way?” Just duality—you will suffer in duality. When you have a strong inmost request, a strong desire to do the right thing, there’s no alternative. The conclusion will be indubitably found out.
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—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-27-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.
