Order of Four

What I told you this afternoon is based on the order of our belief: shi, ge, gyo, sho—four stages. Shi is belief, ge is intellectual understanding, and gyo is practice. Here it means something more —emotional practice, emotional activity followed by intellectual activity, we call gyo. And sho is the enlightenment or proof, to be proved by various teachers. This is a very important thing. Four ways. So, these four stages—our practice includes those four—in each order, our practice should follow. Our practice is not just one of the four order of entering our way.             --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 67-08-20 - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. Edited by DC  - Going through Suzuki lectures and posting anything that can stand on its own. Not looking for zingers or "the best of." I find that following these excerpts daily provides another way to experience Suzuki's teaching. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo