Actually, to help others is to help yourself. And to help yourself without paying any attention to others [laughs] is also to help others. If you are observing your way carefully, that will help others. When almost all people are discouraged, if you are brave enough or good enough to observe your way, that will be great encouragement for others.
Photo from SF Chronicle by Jim Marshall
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-27-B 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.