Saturday, January 25, 2025

Through and Through

According to Buddhism, suffering is valuable because it is suffering, through and through. Enlightenment is valuable because enlightenment is enlightenment, through and through. So, when we say enlightenment, the rest of things is enlightenment. When we say, “I am ignorant,” every one of us is ignorant.

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.