We are studying the sutra of the sixth patriarch, and Prajna is of course a Sanskrit word. Now we mean wisdom, but this wisdom is not intellect, or knowledge. This wisdom is our so-called inmost nature, which is always in incessant activity. Zazen practice is wisdom seeking for wisdom, if I use a technical term. Wisdom seeks wisdom is zazen practice, and our everyday life is wisdom.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-22 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.
