When you experience a new experience, at first you may even be afraid of it. And you may even cry over the new experience because it is so different from experiences you have had, and the experience is too real to you. But that is because your practice is still wanting. In other words, you have to practice until you can digest the new experience, and you can act properly according to the new experience. This kind of understanding is necessary.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-08-02 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. These posts are also on Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram. We are continually working on improving the quality of transcriptions of Suzuki's lectures. After a new "verbatim transcript" is made, we create a minimally edited version which is more readable. See the most recently completed transcripts at shunryusuzuki.com/n.
