The most important thing is to realize the oneness of a human being. Sometimes people do two opposite things. On one hand [laughing], they work for civil rights, and on the other hand, they are doing something opposite. This kind of mistake is pretty common. So, even though a movement is good, it should not be cut off from our everyday life. As a part of everyday life, we should participate in the movement. Then the movement will be successful. Only to join the movement on Saturday or Sunday [laughing] to make a procession—that’s not so good, I think.
—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.
