At first you should be able to accept things in two ways, but this is not enough. It is still dualistic. So, you should be able to understand in one of the two ways without thinking, “This is one of the two understandings.” So, here you come back to starting point, but actually it is not the starting point because you have freedom to go from one to the other. So, you will not be bothered. And whatever you do, that is the great activity of the practice.
—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.
