Student [Pat Herreshoff]: Docho Roshi, if there is nothing but what we have to share, and no help but what we have to give to each other, how can we act unselfishly, if we’re not ready to renounce our minds?
SR: To act in a selfish way is also sharing something and helping each other. We cannot be completely selfish, anyway. That is not possible because every one of us are rooted in the same ground.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-09-00 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.