When you want to decide, “This is good or this is bad. This is small mind, this is big mind,” you have duality already. But actually, there is no big mind without small mind. Big mind is the mind which is working on small mind. If there is no small mind, there is no big mind.
Drawing by Robert "Skip" Melcher
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-08-28-B 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.
