Sitting is very valuable experience that will encourage your effort in your everyday life. In our everyday life we usually try to do something or try to change something into some other thing. Or we try to attain something. But trying to attain something is already an expression of our true nature. Trying to change something into some other thing is already the art of life. We should find out the meaning of our effort itself, before we attain something.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-08-26 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.
