Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Everything changes


“Suzuki Roshi, I’ve been listening to your lectures for years,” a student said during the question and answer time following a lecture, “but I just don’t understand.

Could you just please put it in a nutshell? Can you reduce Buddhism to one phrase?”
Everyone laughed. Suzuki laughed.

“Everything changes,” he said. Then he asked for another question.

2 comments:

  1. it teaches us that grasping onto things is one of the major reasons as to why we suffer

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  2. We need to live being aware of the ever-changing nature of reality and appreciate the present moment

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