So, if you say, “I attained enlightenment. I know what Buddhism is,” then we will open your book and say, “Oh, [laughs] this is your enlightenment.” If you say, “This is it,” then I will say that is not good [laughs], even though I don’t know what is written in the book. I can just ask you, “Is this what you meant?” And if you say, “This is it,” I will say, “No!” [laughter].
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-29-B 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.
