Before you attain
enlightenment, enlightenment is there [laughs]. That is true. It is not after
you attain enlightenment, you know, it is not because you attained
enlightenment that enlightenment appears. Because enlightenment is always
there, so if you realize it that is enlightenment. If you think enlightenment
is something, some particular thing which you can reach for or which you can attain, sometime you will be discouraged because you are seeking for it, and you
think that is something which can be attained. -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-07-24 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC
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