This is not a fancy teaching at all. There can be no other teaching so direct. “Just to sit” is the most direct teaching. You cannot [laughs] even say no or yes, you cannot say anything about it: “just to sit” [laughs]. So we say, “just to sit.” There is no more teaching.
—Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-07-24 - as found on
shunryusuzuki.com
edited by PF. Go to
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