After practicing for one or two months, if you don’t think you have made some progress, you may give up seeking for something good. But true religion cannot be obtained in that way. That is the way to attain something in a more materialistic sense. But a true spiritual way cannot be like that. The way to work on spiritual things is quite different from the way to work on something which is more materialistic. Even though you talk about spiritual things, that is not actually spiritual. That is a kind of substitute for the [laughs] spiritual things.
—Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-07-24 - as found on
shunryusuzuki.com
edited by PF. Go to
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