This is a very important point: to fight it out with the body [laughs], not with the mind, not by thinking, not by wandering about. To find something which we should do at each moment is the best way to raise our mind. To raise our mind means to realize big mind, not small mind. Small mind is wandering about. But for big mind there is no place or time to wander about. It is too big to wander about [laughs]. Too big. If you want to realize that imperturbability of your spirit, you have to raise your body. There is enlightenment.
—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.
