We are discussing now how to rightly identify ourselves, but what I am suggesting is not to try to identify yourself—to something. If you are trying to do it—why don’t you try to identify yourself: nothing? Actually, we are nothing. We don’t exist, so it’s all right. But, if you want to understand yourself more in terms of some feeling, or of good or bad, or in terms of right or wrong, perfect or imperfect—that is possible too when your practice is mature. When you do not rely on anything. Then you can resolve it. As long as you have something in your mind, your practice tends to be distorted practice.
—Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-06-28 - 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.
Nothing Holy About It by Tim Burkett