When you do something, it doesn’t mean you have no nose or no eyes. You have eyes; you have a nose. But when we say, “no nose,” it means don’t think your face consists of only your nose, eyes, mouth, hair and ears. That kind of understanding will lose the reality of your face. Your face is not just an accumulation of nose and eyes and ears and mouth.
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—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-01-21-BN 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.
