[Responding to a student] “Seems to be.” Not exactly so but seems to be. That’s very good [laughter]. It seems to be small mind, you know. It seems to be big mind. But actually, it is both big mind and small mind. But when you think, “This is big mind, and this is small mind,” there is duality—a gap.
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—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.
