As long as you are proud of your practice, it means you are still relying on something or someone. When you rely on others—rely on your reputation—you are proud of yourself [laughs]. If you are quite independent, you are not proud of yourself or anything.
—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.
