Saturday, January 17, 2026

Your Own Idea

When you say something or when you try to figure out what our teaching is or what is our way, already there is some—your own idea is in it. In that case, it will not work [laughs].

Photo by Betty Warren

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.