Everyone knows Zazen is very difficult. You cannot practice it completely. But we should not give up [laughs]. As long as we are human beings, we should not give up. We don’t need a reason why we should practice it. Before you realize the necessity of practice, you will ignore it. But your practice brings out various necessities that will drive sincere practice. In this way, our practice will be polished. And at the same time, our everyday life will be refined.
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—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-12-11-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.
