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Thursday, July 20, 2023

How To Handle Themselves

To have renunciation is our way, which is pretty difficult. This is the point many of our Zen masters had difficulty in their true practice because it is not a matter of successful or unsuccessful. It is a matter of how to handle themselves or how to understand the way to work on it. This is a very subtle point. No one else but you can help you.

—Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-04-23-B - as found on shunryusuzuki.com edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives or cuke.com/ig for links to the full Shunryu Suzuki lecture and the source of the photo.

Kobun Chino, Sumi Togen and Shunryu Suzuki at Tassajara 1967