“Outflow,” that is opposite to our way. Your energy comes out from whatever it is, body or mind. You should be one existence when you sit. There is no outside and no inside when you sit. It is not even to see inward. It is just to sit. No inside and no outside. Just one existence.
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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.
