Nansen says if you try to follow the way, you will be far away from it. But what you will attain is something quite different. It is not something to describe. Maybe we call it emptiness. Or sometimes toilet paper. [Laughs, laughter.] Sometimes cats. Sometimes fox. Whatever it is, it is another name of something which cannot be described. That is true enlightenment. Only when you have it, then you may say, “everyday life is the true way.” Even toilet paper is the true way. Whatever you do, that is another name of the true way you have.
Art by Dan Welch
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 69-03-10 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.
