We are not talking about something very difficult. If we are quite sincere with ourselves, and if we are conscientious—not conscientious, but if we are aware of our idle practice and ashamed of it, that’s the way. Even though we are not perfect, if we are aware of our imperfection, that is good, very good.
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—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-08-28-A 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.
