We say, just sit on your cushion. It may be pretty difficult to find the meaning of “just sit on your cushion.” It may be pretty difficult if you do not know how important it is. But the more you study your life and the more you have problems in your everyday life, you will find out how important it is to practice Zen.
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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.