The cosmic mudra symbolizes to sit is to participate. This is not the right word, but—to participate—self-use of big existence—one whole existence including everything. So, this is one sole existence, the symbol of one big existence including everything. So, it is a symbol of our practice.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-29-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.
