Before you wonder what it is, you should practice more following a new experience. You may see your teacher, but the teacher will say, “Practice more with the new understanding.” And I don’t think all of you can always practice with a teacher. Some of you must go to your own home and practice alone. In that case, when you have a new experience, you should continue your practice folding the new experience within yourself, and act bravely according to the new experience. This kind of shift is necessary for you. We should not always be bound by the same old way. We should always be ready for a new experience.
Painting by Willard Mike Dixon
—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.
