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Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Obtain Calmness

So, what you should do is to just obtain calmness within yourself—you can ignore the danger of being disturbed by someone else. There you have restfulness, and absolute reliance on yourself only. You can depend on your own effort.

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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.