Student: How long does it take?
Suzuki: Nooo, it doesn’t take any time [laughter]. You are there. Fish is there, right there. Buddhism is two-handed. You can ignore the truth, but it is right here. This fish has immense value. You cannot measure its value. You don’t know whether it is big or small. How many fish are there? One, two, three. Each one has his own fish, and each fish is the same. It’s wonderful.
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—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.
