When you accept the problem, you accept your true nature, which is working on it. When you accept your true nature, fundamentally there is no problem. As long as we live, moment after moment we have to work on something. So, dualistic problems will give you the meaning of your life. They are ornaments of your life.
—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.
