November 18 1965
Thursday, November 18th, 1965November 18, 1965
Rev. S. Suzuki
Thursday morning lectures
When you get up early in the morning by alarm, I think you don’t feel so well. It is not so easy to come and sit even though….even after you started sitting at first, you have to encourage yourself to sit well. This kind of…those are the waves of our mind—just waves and in pure zazen there should not be any waves in our mind. But while you are sitting those waves will more and more become smaller and your effort change into some subtle feeling. We say ‘pulling out the weed’. We make it nourishment of the plant. We pull the weed and bury the weed near the plant to make it nourishment of the plant. So even though you have some difficulty in your practice….even though you have some waves while you are sitting, those weeds itself will help you. So we should not be bothered by the weeds you have in your mind. We should be rather grateful to the weeds you have in your mind because eventually will enrich your practice.