In that center we exist, you know. But if you try to understand you yourself, there is no way to reach you yourself. Even though you suffer and struggle, even if you spend your whole life to reach to yourself, it is impossible. So I think someone who thinks he attained perfect enlightenment may be crazy [laughs].
Drawing by Stan White
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-30-C 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.
