When you accept difficulties with confidence, with big mind, or when you let your difficulty work out its true function, then you have no difficulty—that is not difficulty anymore. The difficulty is like a bird flying in the sky. Your mind is the sky that knows what it is, “Oh, a bird is flying.” That’s all [laughter].
Image from “Birds At Tassajara” by William W. Sterling
—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.
