If you want to accept your mind, you have to accept everything with your mind. It is impossible to accept just your mind [laughs]. Your mind always operates with something else. It is impossible to accept just the essence of mind. Even though it is called “essence of mind,” essence of mind cannot be deprived of—it needs always a medium. So you have to accept the medium or means of practice. That is zazen.
—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.
