When you find beauty in it, when you find necessity in it, when you find truth in it, when you find some good meaning in it, all those will make the absolute value which we need. The value is not just material value; when you find beauty in it, you cannot turn it upside down [laughs]. Even if you put it upside down, it will not be destroyed. It has material value [laughs], but if you only use it in this way, it is not beautiful anymore.
—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.
