If there is some obstacle, it may be easy to take it away, but actually there is no obstacle [laughs]. The only obstacle which exists is the obstacle which does not exist…. You cannot compare enlightenment with some other stuff…. Not an obstacle, but the way to reach is not right. You are finding a fish on the tree [laughs]. That is an obstacle.
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—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.
