If one of your hands gets out of suffering that’s enough, even though you are not completely free from suffering. Or if one eye does, it will be enough to see what you are doing. You can see with one eye, you know [laughter]. You will say, “Oh my. I am creating suffering. There is no need to open two eyes.”
—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.
