If you hesitate to accept truth, you will be lost. There is a time for suffering to stop, but true nature will never cease to act. The terminology [laughs] of delusion is something which is not real and which can be put an end to. That is delusion. And true nature is something which is eternal, it cannot be lost. And through suffering you can have direct experience of how strong your true nature is. Your true nature is much stronger than the suffering “small you” creates. True nature is incomparably greater than small mind.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D 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.
