“Everything is mind,” we take this viewpoint. We are concerned about each individual’s attainment or nirvana or happiness which should be for each one of us. We do not talk about mind in just a scientific way. We mean my mind, your mind, or someone’s mind who is concerned about his own life. If so, mind includes various problems we see, or feel involved in. For us, mind is our hand, our room, our family, our country because our minds are concerned with people, with family, with our body. So, in this sense mind and body is one—in a religious sense.
—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.