Confucius said the most visible is something invisible. There are many Oriental proverbs like this. The same kind in Japanese: “A silent firefly burns its body with enthusiasm, unlike the noisy cicada.” This has the same meaning. The silent firefly, unlike the noisy cicada, glows with light [laughs].
—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.
