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Saturday, January 11, 2025

No Other Way

If the earth says, I don’t want the sun [laughs], what will happen to it? There is no other way. Because of this unthinkable thinking we exist, we can think, we can live. Without this unthinkable thinking, it would change into delusion. If you insist on avoiding it, it means you are involved in dark deep delusion.

cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-12-04-A as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.