We are so grateful to have many teachers and teachings which are the accumulation of the actual experiences of various sages. All those teachings are drops of blood of ancient sages. So, we have to study with a warm heart, not just with our brains. Direct experience, direct practice is near. You have to be very straightforward, you should be very open, and you should be ready for everything which will happen to you.
—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.
