Everything which will happen in your mind is not a part of your experience. Each of your images or functions is mind which includes everything. And so, each experience is independent from other experiences. And when each experience includes everything, every experience, that is Zen practice. That means you have independent practice, one whole practice which includes everything.
—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.
