What is the double moon? Actually, the moon is one, so is the silence; silence is just one. But you say this place is calm and silent, and you compare silence with a noisy place. This is the double moon. But if you find calmness in a noisy place, that is to see the double moon as the opposite way of observing things.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-03-26-C 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.
