So according to Zen, satori should be attained by practicing. This is truth, as you understand it. Intellectual effort will not satisfy, will not be good enough, and will not help you. And scientific effort is not enough, or it is quite different effort from the point you want. If by mental function it is impossible to attain enlightenment, then by practice or by our actual activity to realize our true nature is the only way which is left.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-31 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.
