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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Reading from the Lotus Sutra

"Some, again, give their children and wives; others their own flesh; (or) offer, when bidden, their hands and feet, striving to gain supreme enlightenment."
SR: This may sound very funny, but at that time it was...for me it looks very funny because I feel as though I cannot understand it, you know. -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture- 68-02-00-A as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC