Nowadays, if you want some calmness in your life, some go to a mountain or retreat, or build a special home with a double wall. Even when you live in a calm place, if your mind becomes agitated and restless, there is no calmness. Real calmness is in noisy places. Where you are already disturbed enough [laughs], there is no mental danger for you to be disturbed by something else.
—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.
