Whatever you do, you will not waste your time. But when you do something with some limited idea or some definite purpose, what you will gain is some concrete thing which will cover your inner nature. So, it is not a matter of what you study, but a matter of gaining the faculty to see things as it is, to accept things as it is, to understand things as it is.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 69-03-15 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.