You may say it is kensho, or whatever you may say, this is a quite new experience both intellectual and emotional. And the many patriarchs and Buddhas will prove your experience. That is the last stage. Then you have the same experience as the old buddhas had. In this way Buddhism will be developed.
—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.