People try to attain that high ideal which they
created by intellectual study of Buddhism. And they tried to attain
it by our practice. This was a mistake. Bodhidharma found out that was a
mistake. By creating some lofty idea or deep idea and trying to attain it and
practice zazen is not zazen. If that is our zazen our zazen is nothing
different from our usual activities, or monkey mind. It looks like very good
and very lofty and very holy activity, but there is no
difference between it and our monkey mind activity. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-01-05. Edited by DC - Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. - Go to cuke.com Wha at's New [now at blogger] to see more daily posts.]
