“[Zuzuki-roshi] I don’t know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.” ConsciousnessMeditationAwarenessZenContemplationZen BuddhismShunryu SuzukiZuzuki Roshi Book:Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki Source: Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
“So did Katagiri fail, and am I a failure because I can’t remember what Buddhism is—and are all the rest of us failures, as it seems, when contrasted against our early pure and simple expectations and the clear-cut enlightenment of the story books?” Failure Author:David Chadwick