The point is if you have your own mind, you will have your body, and you will have everything else. And wherever you go, that is your home. But when you do not have your own mind, and your mind is some subject to study or the subject of a psychological study, then you have no “you.” You don’t have your mind. You don’t have your body. You have no home. And you have nowhere to live. That is why you suffer.
Calligraphy by Upasama
—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.
