I ask you so many times [laughs] why you came here. I think you don’t know why you came here, but there is some reason, why you came here. You didn’t come just by curiosity. Why you came here is, I don’t think possible to figure out. But there must be some reason.
Still from the 1968 KQED film, Zen Mountain Center
—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.