If you sit one year, most students will actually have this quality of calmness in practice. But when you try to figure out what your practice is, you have a problem. You create problems which do not belong to your practice. If you just sit, there is no problem for most of our students, but sometimes you create problems, that’s all. And you fight with the problems, that’s all [laughs]. You are creating them, actually. In your zazen there is no problem.
Drawing by Stan White
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-10-12-B as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.
