The purpose of zazen is to make ourselves physically strong, maybe to make our mind healthy and body healthy. But healthy mind is not just “healthy mind” in its usual sense, and weak body is not weak body in its usual sense. Whether it is weak or strong, when that weakness and that strength is based on so-called truth or buddha-nature, that is a healthy mind and healthy body.
Photo of Dr. Richard Levine by Sophie Gehan
—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.