We are sitting at each point with big energy. That is Zen. It is still, and it is calm, and it is completely peaceful. But that is peaceful power, and peaceful energy—this is our Zen actually. We don’t know our power, how great our power is. But when you acquire complete calmness, there is big power.
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—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.
