When you practice Zen, the quality of the practice includes everything, and when you do something, the quality of the activity includes everything. So, Dogen Zenji says it is temporal flashing into the vast universe. Each activity we take is just a flashing into cosmic reality. So, in this way there is no discrimination, there is no good or bad.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-02-18 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.
