Recently, even though you have a very advanced culture, there is something which you don’t know what to do about, that is your mind [laughs]. You don’t know what to do with this mind. You have various tools, but you have no mind to use them. That is your problem, I think. And we Japanese people have studied what is our mind, but we have become too attached to your civilization and almost forget what we have studied [laughing]. That is our problem just now. So, a combination of the two will create something wonderful, I think.
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—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-27-A 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.
