Zazen Notes

From “Emotions Are the Path”, on “The Dao Bums” online forum site:

My emotional state usually has a sort of positive uplift to it, if I’ve taken care of my health.  If the positive uplift goes missing, then I find I need to revisit recent experience, oftentimes to review what belongs to me and what belongs ...  read more

Here’s an excerpt from the transcript of Shunryu Suzuki’s lecture, “Breathing”:

If time come, space will follow. So there’s no choice for you. But when you separate idea of time and space you feel as if you have some choice, but actually you have to do something or you have to not-to-do something. …

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I recently had occasion to reread the lecture “Breathing” in “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind”. Out of curiosity, I then looked for a transcript of the lecture in the Shunryu Suzuki archives set up by David Chadwick.

There are differences between the two versions. Here are the last three sentences from “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind”:

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