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Shunryu Suzuki Roshi was a pivotal Zen monk and author who founded the first Western Zen monastery. Discover his legacy of "nothing special."
…So that is what I actually mean by absolute spirit, absolute buddha. So buddha can be one's buddha can be a Gautama Buddha but year after year. When time changes, next buddha will appear, and incessantly forever. Buddha's spirit will appear. When we…
…effort for six years before he attained buddhahood, before he realized this point. He was buddha, but he realized what is Gautama Buddha himself and when he found out himself, he realized everything exists in that way. So for him there was no problem…
…the original people thought that sangha was the harmony of the reality. And later, after buddha passed away, we have buddha, later, Gautama Buddha, rudra buddha or brahmaputra, or even a stone can be a buddha or a chudan. If there is some stone like…