Why do we have suffering? Because we have happiness or joy on the other hand. Why we have happiness is because we have difficulties. And you cannot join happiness to difficulties. They are completely different qualities. When we feel, as long as we are conscious, it is impossible to join unhappiness and happiness. They are essentially different qualities of consciousness.
Painting by Arthur Okamura
—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.
