Buddha’s actual teaching is nowhere. You cannot find it. Because you cannot find it, it is everywhere. If you say this is Buddha’s teaching, that is wrong. It should not be found [laughs]. If you think, “This is Buddha’s teaching, it’s his whole body or it’s a part of his body,” that is the wrong understanding. If the teaching is for some part of your body or life, that is not Buddha’s teaching. It covers everything. It should be so. You cannot find what it is because it is one with everything. If it is one with everything, how can you find it?
—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.
