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Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Forget Ourselves

As Dogen Zenji says, “To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. And to study ourselves is to forget ourselves in each moment.” To forget ourselves means to be yourself in each moment. Then everything will come and help you, and everything will ensure your enlightenment.

cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 69-04-20 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.