When you practice zazen, without doing anything, just concentrating on inhaling and exhaling, there you express the dark side of reality. When you do something, it may be said that is the bright side of reality, but actually each activity is the same as the practice of Zen because each practice in the smallest particle of time is the same as your long periods of practice in a cross-legged posture.
—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.
