For Ryokan each day is a good day, and each day is a day of enlightenment. There is enlightenment on each day, on each practice you do, as long as you have a clear understanding of buddha-nature.
Image of Ryokan statue from Encyclopaedia Britannica
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-29-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.
