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.
