When we practice something, it is of course dualistic. Our practice may be dualistic. But when you practice with awareness of this inmost “I,” your practice is not dualistic anymore. Your practice looks dualistic, but your practice is done by the inmost request of your nature. That is not dualistic.
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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.
