Only when we understand our own way will each
animal world, each world, be seen all at once, including our world with
Shakyamuni Buddha. This understanding is that form is emptiness and emptiness
is form. The animal is the form. You may say, "Form - that is only an
animal, only a cat." But when you understand what a cat is through and
through, that is the emptiness from which various teachings come and from which
our practice follows. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
