But sometimes you think the practice and the cart are different, enlightenment is a different thing, that practice is a means to attain enlightenment. If you think this way, then enlightenment is something different from you. So, you want to be something else because we are so stupid. [Laughter]
Photo by Tim Buckley
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-08-28-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.
