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Sunday, March 8, 2015

True Nature Incomparably Greater

There is a limit - a time for suffering to stop. But true nature will never cease to act. The terminology [laughs] of delusion is something which is not real and which can be put to an end. And true nature is something which is eternal. True nature will not be lost. And through suffering you can have direct experience of your true nature, how strong it is. Your true nature is much stronger than the suffering you created -- small you created. True nature is incomparably greater than small mind. 

Excerpt is another from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D as found on shunryusuzuki.com - Edited by DC