But this experience can be interpreted in reverse [laughs]. What Buddhas attained is the purity of mind or the absolute mind, so the last stage will be the first one in which you believe in. And because you have the last stage which everyone—every Buddha attained, and which everyone has, and because everyone has the same wisdom, whatever we do, whatever we understand.
—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.
