We are liable to be caught by something we see or something we experience, and we are liable to compare one experience to another and say which is difficult. So, you say climbing up to the top of the pole is easy in comparison with jumping off from the pole. But you shouldn’t say so [laughs]. Because you compare the experience of jumping off the pole to the experience of climbing up, you hesitate to do so. So, to keep precepts or how to take vows, is to do it without being involved in any idea of vows or practice or precepts. |
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—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 69-04-29 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version. |
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