If we want to practice our way, we should free our minds of intellectual or conscious activity in terms of right or wrong, good or bad. Whatever it is we should try it, and we should have the taste of it through direct experience. Not just feeling or thinking, but direct experience. That is zazen practice.
Zenkei Blanche Hartman, Sojun Mel Weitsman, and Chuck Gould at breakfast in the Rinso-in family area, 2011.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-12-21 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.
