When you have some experience of enlightenment or something, you think we can rest here observing various sights at the top of a pole, forgetting all about continuing climbing. Usually, we think in that way, but actually, there is no top for anything. Things are continuously growing or changing to something else. Nothing exists in its own form or color. So actually, there is no top. When we think, “Here is a top,” that is already misunderstanding.
—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.
