“You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.”

— Shunryu Suzuki, book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Pt. 1 : Right Practice "Mind Weeds", p. 26
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1973)

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