In dokusan (sanzen or personal training) one
student expressed her feelings about seeing an animal devouring another animal.
She became very angry with the animal which was devouring the weaker one. If
you did not see this, or do not see that side of things, it does not matter. It
is someone else's problem. But once you do see it, it is your problem, not just
the animal's problem, or just a problem of the animal world. As I listened to
her I thought that there is her world as well as the animal's world, and that
in each world there is a Buddha. For us there is Shakyamuni Buddha; for animals
I don't know, but actually they practice so hard in their own way. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-08-24-B as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay, not just the super cool ones.
