Dogen Zenji says, “What is mind?” There are three kinds of mind. But usually by mind we mean thinking mind. Usually, with this thinking mind, we must arise bodhisattva mind. This is very valuable, and this is a great help for us to know. You may think after you attain enlightenment, when your mind is very clear, and when you have no more dualistic thinking, you will arise bodhisattva mind [laughs]. But Dogen Zenji did not say that. He clearly said there are three kinds of mind. First of all, we have thinking mind, dualistic mind. With this dualistic mind you should arise bodhisattva mind.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 70-08-03 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.
