You should understand your own everyday activity in two ways. One is to understand our life in a dualistic way: good or bad, right or wrong. We should try hard to understand things in terms of good or bad. And sometimes you should be able to ignore the understanding from the viewpoint of good or bad. “Good” or “bad” is just superficial understanding. So, when you understand things, everything is one. Or all things are one. Then that is the other understanding: understanding of oneness.
Art by Paul Reps
—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.