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Saturday, May 9, 2015

Accepting Small Mind

Immediately following yesterday's Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpt:

Student C: Could it just as well to mean accepting our small mind too?

SR: Yeah-- to accept small mind too, knowing that that is small mind. Big mind watching small mind [laughs]. Yeah. Then small mind will work, you know. Don't you think so?

Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-08-28-B as found on shunryusuzuki.com - Edited by DC