If you are not caught by the idea of calmness, you have calmness. If you are not caught by the idea of there is only one moon, the moon may be double. You will not be surprised to see double moon. So, oneness and duality is two sides of one coin. And serenity and noisy is dualistic, but it is not different.
—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.
