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only way is to give up all the appeasement, all the medicine, all the way which
is supposed to be effective, and to give up our desires even. When we give up
everything, we will have direct insight of the hunger, direct insight of our
instinct. When we know what is our inmost request, then all the things you eat,
all the things you do, or see will serve as an appeasement -- to appease your
inmost request. That is why we sit.
Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-15 as found on shunryusuzuki.com - - Excerpt not edited by DC