Enlightenment should not be cut off from “me,” you know. “Ten years ago, I attained enlightenment, but it doesn’t work today” [laughter]. That was enlightenment ten years ago. It is impossible to cut off the enlightenment from my life and give the enlightenment to someone else. That is impossible. Enlightenment should be here, now, in this moment.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-30-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.
