Right Here

Most people are attached to some result from their practice. That is why they do not attain enlightenment. Enlightenment is right here in your practice, but people think by practicing something will result. But actually, enlightenment is right here.

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

Good Enough

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For someone who has mental suffering, practicing just to sit is maybe enough. When they can sit, they are pretty good already. When they think, “I am all right, there is no need for me to practice any religious way” –if they say so, that’s the worst. When you think it is necessary for you to practice zazen, that is a big improvement. Just to try to sit is good enough.

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

Helping

If one person has a clear understanding of suffering and what is our true nature, many people will be enlightened. But without enlightenment, to help people means nothing. We say, “A blind man leading blind men.” [Laughter.] Even if they have a lantern, it doesn’t work because the leader is blind. If you are enlightened, everyone will help you. If you are not enlightened [laughs], even though everyone helps, you will not be helped. If you are enlightened, actually everyone, whether or not they are enlightened, will help you.

The Blind Leading the Blind - Bruegel

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

Chris Miller's impressive new book

Rilke, the Buddha, and Orpheus: New Translations of Selected Poems

by Christopher Lennox which is a pen name for early Zen Center student Chris Miller. It's the latest Cuke Press book

Amazon link -  https://amzn.to/4pyo7oR

Cuke Press

Chris Miller cuke page

Clear Understanding

The people who say, “I am right,” or “I am not doing anything wrong.” Those are the worst people. Those people will create various problems in this world. They are creating problems without knowing they are creating them. So, there is no way to persuade them. That is why we have to have a clear understanding of our life. When we work with people like that, we have to have a clear understanding of what is suffering and what is our true nature.

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

Why We Have a Teacher

Religious mind is so strong. If it is necessary, one will burn their physical body. If your true nature tells you to burn up your body, that’s all right [laughs]. It is so strong, much stronger than emotions. You cannot do that by emotions; just your true nature can do it. But when I say this, you will have some misunderstanding. That is why we have “cover.” That is why we have the Shobogenzo. What is true religion? Just to jump into a fire is not religion. Sometimes a crazy person will do that. So, right understanding of our inmost nature is very important. That is why we have a teacher, and why we have Shobogenzo.

The Venerable Thich Quảng Đức Monument

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

RIP Mary Watson

Mary Watson lived next door to and was involved with Zen Center for many years. It was always good to see her and, until he died, her husband Jack Weller.

Jack Weller's cuke page

Mitsu Suzuki memories page with Mary's memories of her

She died maybe Thursday the 20th night (judging from the message I got) in her apartment at 340 Page. She apparently had a cold that couldn’t be resolved. Her son Daniel is with her now and the CC community is sitting with her body today - so maybe that was Friday the 21st. If you have background info on Mary you can share for her obituary, Her health had declined over the past year.

Painful or Not

Moreover, your body is not yours at all [laughs], in its true sense. “True you” has no form or no body to have pain. “True you” has no pain at all. Sometimes your true nature tells your physical body to kill yourself [laughs], if it is necessary. That is true self. If you are fully enlightened in your true self, whether your body is painful or not is not a problem.

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

Featured Cuke Archives page

Mary Mocine  had visited Tassajara a couple of times but her first practice experience was at a mindfulness retreat with Yvonne Rand at Green Gulch. She was at Zen Center for a number of years and in this podcast she also shares experiences with various teachers and temples in Japan. She had a sitting group in Vallejo for a couple of decades.

Accept

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Yeah, the physical pain is real [laughter]. If you accept it, it is real. If you don’t accept it, it is not real, you know. “My legs are painful.” That’s all. If you put a period, “I am painful.” That’s real. But if you say, “I am painful, so what shall I do?” Or, “Is there any way to escape from it?” Then the pain you mean will become big [laughs]. To accept the pain as it is is big patience.

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

Eternal True Nature

If you hesitate to accept truth, you will be lost. There is a time for suffering to stop, but true nature will never cease to act. The terminology [laughs] of delusion is something which is not real and which can be put an end to. That is delusion. And true nature is something which is eternal, it cannot be lost. And through suffering you can have direct experience of how strong your true nature is. Your true nature is much stronger than the suffering “small you” creates. True nature is incomparably greater than small mind.

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

Tears

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If you find your inmost request by struggling or with tears, or with difficulty, you will never forget about it. Then an inmost request is in emotional feelings rather than logical reason. The logical understanding of an inmost request is a philosophy of true nature. And the understanding of an inmost request by your tears is an actual feeling that makes sense to you. And you can apply it. You will never forget about it. So, we should know that there is truth in our utmost distress or suffering.

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

Featured Cuke Archives page

Barton Stone joined Shunryu Suzuki for zazen very early on. He's a peace activist, expert carpenter, gardener, poet, and now practices Zen with with the Stone Creek Zen Center in Graton, CA. We'll have the phone chat, read his poems and an old interview. - This is an encore presentation from an August 29, 2020, podcast when Cuke Podcast was only five months old.

Emotional Feelings

Photo by Robert Boni

The emotional feelings, whether good or bad, you have them, and they are strongest. It is easier to find what is your inmost request by the strongest function of your mind. It is easier. And if you find your true nature, in your strongest emotional feelings, you will be very much encouraged by it. But if you find what inmost request means by logical thinking, you think, “I understand that is an inmost request.” That’s all. When you understand it, it will be forgotten, and you will think, “In this book, someone says inmost request is something such-and-such. So, when it is necessary, if I read that part I can understand it.” This kind of understanding will not help you at all. And in a case of necessity, you will forget all about it [laughs].

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

A note from Baker Roshi

From Crestone Mountain Zen Center Newsletter, Nov. 2025

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The Best Time

Before you open one eye, it takes time maybe. But for someone who suffers a lot, it is not so difficult. That is why we do not help people so easily. We are waiting for the best time for them to confront the problem completely.

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—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

One Eye

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If one of your hands gets out of suffering that’s enough, even though you are not completely free from suffering. Or if one eye does, it will be enough to see what you are doing. You can see with one eye, you know [laughter]. You will say, “Oh my. I am creating suffering. There is no need to open two eyes.”

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

If You Know

If you only know that you are creating suffering for yourself, this is good enough, and it will work pretty well. “Oh, I am creating suffering. I have created a difficult problem.” When you say so, you are already out of suffering. You are not completely involved in the suffering you had.

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

A Long Period of Zazen

Long periods of zazen are very difficult. Short periods of zazen are very difficult too. It is rather troublesome to do every morning [laughter]. The results will be different, but difficulty is the same. So, a long period of zazen is easier, I think, easier if you have time. It is easier, and you will have a deeper understanding. You have the possibility to clear up all of your misunderstandings. You will stop creating suffering [laughter].

Image adapted from Google Play Store

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

Be Patient

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Student: How can you meditate when your legs are aching? [Laughter.]

SR: Hmm?

Student: Is that all in the mind?

SR: Just be patient [laughs, laughter].

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

In case you didn't see this email

A message from DC and Cuke Archives: doing our part to help preserve the legacy of Shunryu Suzuki and those whose lives cross his.

Dear Friend,

It’s been a couple of years since we sent out an update on what’s happening at Cuke Archives.

After eleven years collecting and refining the most memorable personal anecdotes about the founding of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the first volume of Tassajara Stories appeared this fall, published by Monkfish. I’m working to complete the next two volumes and their audiobooks. There’s more than that to come if I keep at it, but for now completing the Tassajara Stories trilogy and the weekly podcasts is what absorbs the majority of my attention.

Here’s a brief picture of what else has been happening.

We continue doing what we’ve been doing for decades—working with the Shunryu Suzuki lecture archive, entering more lectures—verbatim, minimum edits, other edits, audio, whatever we created, could find, or link to—such as the Engage Wisdom transcript and audio presentation. Go to Cuke Update for more.

There are daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpt posts with an image on the Cuke Daily Blog, Instagram, Facebook Cuke Archives, Bluesky, and to email subscribers. The oral and written history content of cuke.com is slowly and constantly expanding giving a more thorough view of the people and events that are touched and have been touched by Shunryu Suzuki’s time in America. More than anything Cuke Archives is the story and stories of people.

For many years I did the daily lecture excerpts while Peter Ford concentrated on getting cuke.com and shunryusuzuki.com better organized and easier to navigate. He’s still doing that but now he also presents those excerpts. One thing I feel we fall short on is posting about all the new material in the archive as it appears. That’s my fault. I get so focused on the work I’m doing I keep failing to get around to sharing the news. I’ll try to do better. Meanwhile, some of the additions and improvements to the archive that have happened in the last few years you can find at Cuke Update.

I’m still involved with the ongoing development of every aspect of Cuke Archives and on average have several hours of communications daily, but since the last update I’ve been increasingly engrossed in what we call special projects—mainly creating books and audiobooks and recording podcasts. The podcasts consist mainly of talks with a wide gamut of guests involved with or somehow related to the Shunryu Suzuki lineage and the centers and groups that have sprung from it. Cuke Podcast page.

We depend on your contributions to keep all this work going. Donations through PayPal, check, or credit card can be made by clicking on this Donate link or on the primary pages of cuke.com and shunryusuzuki.com.

For a contribution of $125 or more, we will gratefully send you a copy of the newly published Tassajara Stories, a hardback which retails for $33.99.

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“We’re all bozos on this bus.” - Firesign Theater

Let the Flower Be

Originally, there is no suffering. Everything is going in its own way, and there should not be any suffering. But you create some suffering. Everything is changing, and everything is growing, but sometimes you want to stop it, and you want to own a flower, like an artificial flower. That is the cause of suffering, and you create that suffering. If you let the flower be as it is, you have no suffering. When you say “suffering,” it is already a flower which is created by you. It is pretty hard to accept the flower which is growing or falling. When you see the flower, you feel as if it will exist forever [laughs]. But actually, it won’t.

Photo by Perfecto Insecto

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

Why We Suffer

Why we suffer is because everything which gives us suffering is something created by our mind. Everything you see is something created by your mind. When we say “suffering,” that is your suffering. Your suffering comes from something which is created by your mind. You are participating in creating some suffering. It may not be just you, but you are the main actor in the play.

Drawing by Stan White

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

Featured Cuke Archives page

Rick McDaniel has written nine books on Zen, the last of which is to be published by Monkfish, title Original Face. He’s done hundreds of interviews with Zen folks all over America and Canada where he lives. His website is titled Richard Bryan McDaniel - Zen Conversations and Profiles and is found at rbmcdaniel.ca. Listen to the podcast and learn how all this came to be.

Oh my!

If you don’t know what to do, you may take a risk. That’s our usual way and very easy. Or we think this is the most scientific and intellectual way. “If I have LSD, there will be no need to practice zazen” [laughter]. Oh my! It is very difficult to make them realize what they are doing. When they think they are right, it is very difficult to let them know why it is wrong. They may find out what they were doing, but when it is too late.

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

A Book Is A Book

Buddha told us the four noble truths to destroy our easy way of scientific understanding or philosophical understanding. Those ways are easy. Without any effort you can read books even when you are lying down [laughter]. Very easy, but it actually will not help you. If you realize it will help you to do something, then that is right understanding. But when you read some interesting philosophy, when you are interested in something unusual, you may feel as if you are doing the right thing [laughs]. We are not doing the right thing. A book is a book, and your life is your life.

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—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

WISDOM OF HAPPINESS—A-HEART--TO-HEART WITH THE DALAI LAMA

Bay Area: tickets going fast for this week's screenings of WISDOM OF HAPPINESS—A-HEART--TO-HEART WITH THE DALAI LAMA... Berkeley's Elmwood is sold out for Nov. 6, and additional screenings have been added for Nov. 7-9 (check theater for times). Frank Ostaseski joins Nina Wise for a conversation after the screening at the Rafael on Nov. 9, and don't miss actor/author/activist/Zen priest Peter Coyote in person and the Dalai Lama on the big screen in Sebastopol on Nov. 10! Tix and info for that one: https://rialtocinemas.com/coming.../wisdom-of-happiness-seb/

Thanks Gaetano Maida of the Buddhist Film Foundation for doing this.

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Four Noble Truths

So first of all, we should understand the Four Noble Truths. The Four Noble Truths explain why we suffer, and this intelligent world is full of suffering. The world we seek is full of suffering. And nirvana—when you find out those worlds which are full of suffering are not real, then you have nirvana. And following the way is how to attain nirvana.

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

Suffering in Duality

Buddha says, “Every constituent existence is doomed to suffer.” Everything which we see, which we feel, which we can understand is full of suffering because it is not true because it is dualistic. When there is duality, there is suffering. In this sense, everything appears in the form of suffering. And when you understand that is not true existence, there is no more suffering. If you find out that it is just a dream you created [laughs], there is no suffering.

Drawing by Stan White

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

Big Mind Recites Sutras

That is why we say you should not recite sutras. Your true nature should recite sutras. Big mind recites, not small mind—small self should not recite sutras. The self which is universal to everyone should recite sutras with people. When I talk like this, there is already some duality. Small self or big self. But actually, small self does not exist. That which exists is big self only. We just create small self, and we say it is right [laughs]. But it is not right. So first of all, we should be emancipated from the idea of small self.

Photo montage by Donn Deangelo

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

Featured Cuke Archives page

Taiyo Lipscomb | Podcast - Taiyo Lipscomb came to the Zen Center in the mid seventies and was there for 23 years, becoming one of the folks who run the place. His story is unique as is he. Listen to the podcast and you’ll see.

Not So Simple

Almost all people ignore our true existence and have some superficial understanding of what self is. What do they mean by self? They ignore true self. “I’m not doing Zen,” they say. “I’m not doing anything wrong. I am always doing something right.” [Laughs.] That is what they will say. But if you listen to your inmost voice or voice of conscience, it is not so simple.

Drawing by Stan White

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.

RIP Margaret Crowley

 Margaret Ann Crowley, Anand Shakti 

Just learned that Margaret Crowley died last April 21st in Lafayette, Colorado. She was born in Maryland in 1946. 

Margaret came to Zen Center in 1968 as I recall. She practiced in the city and at Tassajara. She and my first wife Daya (back then Dianne) Goldshlag were best friends. 

I see she has a page at The Natural Funeral.

Will seek photos and more on Margaret.

Gya te gya te - dc

Unconditional Requests

[About inmost request.] Something—someone, I don’t know who it is, but someone tells us to do so. We hear that voice always, so I cannot help doing so because someone is telling me to do so or someone is telling me “please help me.” We cannot help doing so, not because “this is Buddhism” or “this is big patience,” not because of what Buddha said. It is an unconditional request for us. We have this kind of nature. If it is supreme teaching, absolute teaching, it is impossible to achieve. It is impossible to understand it. This is big patience, and this is not even a matter of big or small. It may be very small—sometimes it may be the smallest patience.

—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.