It is to go up and to go down. That is a cosmic symbol [laughs]. Here we have a cosmic symbol. There is no Buddhism in this realm. So, we say, “Just sit. There is no Buddha and no good or bad.”
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—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.
