Even though you find the value of Zen in everyday life, we should not neglect our zazen. Even if you do not feel anything when you sit, if you do not have the experience of Zen, you cannot find anything; you just find weeds or trees or clouds [laughs]. For Zen students, weeds which most people do not care for so much, are a treasure. In this way, we have an artistic life. Whatever you do, that is the art of life for Zen students.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-08-26 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.