Sin and enlightenment are the two sides of one coin. When you say you are sinful, you have enlightenment. Enlightened mind says you are sinful. The Pure Land sect emphasizes this. And they try to turn this side into the other side. That is possible because it is two sides of one coin. It is the same thing, actually the same thing.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-29-C 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.
