The study you make here is a part of your everyday life, a part of your incessant activity. In this sense there is no difference between the practice here, and the everyday activity you have in everyday life. So, to find out the meaning of your life here is to find out the meaning of your everyday activity. To be aware of the meaning of your life, you practice zazen here.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-09-09 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.
