When you study Buddhism, patience and endurance are absolutely necessary because we do not talk too much about the advantages of Buddhism. Until we find out [laughs], we will wait. If so, both for the teacher and student, the most important thing is endurance—to wait for the chance which will come for us. If you give up, you will have no chance to understand Buddhism in its true sense because it is not some knowledge or intellectual understanding.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-01-21-A 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.
