So, Zen practice has two faces: one is power, and one is peaceful. One is limitation, and one is universality. When you find this kind of meaning in your practice, you have nothing to be afraid of. You acquire perpetual life. In this understanding and spirit, we have practiced zazen.
—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.
