Dogen Zenji said, “If one side is bright, the other side is dark.” When you say “happiness,” that’s all, only happiness. When you say “unhappiness,” you have only unhappiness. And when you accept unhappiness and happiness through and through, in this sense, in this way, you have absolute renunciation.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-08-17N as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.
