As long as you
experience it in terms of a good stage or a bad stage, a high or low stage, that is
not perfect enlightenment. We do not expect anything perfect, but
we do not reject it. We always have it, but ideal is ideal and
reality is reality, and in our practice we have to have both sides. This
is the original nature of Buddhism. -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-06-29 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC
