Outside of the zendo cars are always running, and sometimes Honda motorcycles roar like a thunderstorm. “What are you doing there?” they ask. But still, we have deep calmness in here. I think this is rather unusual, and the ability to appreciate the calmness of our life in a noisy city is very precious. By calmness, we do not mean just a calm, silent, soundless place. When our mind is calm in its true sense, nothing can disturb us.
—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.
