When the Second Chinese Patriarch saw Bodhidharma, and confessed his shameful mind, Bodhidharma said, “Bring me a shameful mind. Catch the shameful mind.” He said, “I cannot catch it.” Of course, [laughs] no one can catch it. It is a shadow. How can you catch a shadow? So, he said, “I cannot catch it.” And Bodhidharma said, “The confession is over.”
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-30-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.
