I don’t exactly know why D. T. Suzuki said that about willpower, maybe because in practice we want big willpower. Zen is a religion of practice, so he must have said Zen is a religion of will. But I don’t think Zen is just a religion of will. It is a religion of whole mind.
Calligraphy by ChatGPT: whole mind
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-30-D 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.
