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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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A friend writes:
My recent insights lead me to reaffirm that it is truly the mind that moves. However, that mind is not separate or singular, or even one pointed. It’s beyond conceptualizations.
Maybe my friend and I can find common ground in our understanding of the practice of seated meditation, regardless of the nature of “the mind ...
A friend responded to my last post, Not the Wind, Not the Flag:
I cannot see the connection to life, cleaning cat boxes, cooking, shopping, driving, bathing and suffering.
Let me try to make that connection explicit, here.
Gautama the Buddha said that he returned to “that first characteristic of concentration in which I ever constantly ...