My voice may not be so good yet [after being sick], but today I’m testing. If I speak or not, is not such a big problem for us. Whatever happens to us, it is something which should happen. So, the purpose of our practice is to have this kind of complete composure in our everyday life.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 69-03-09 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.