Because you sit, or because you try to do something, there is trouble. If you do not understand what it is, you think nothing results. Or if you feel you can rely on something, the teaching means nothing. But before you try to rely on it, teaching exists, you have it. -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-07-24 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC
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