SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI founder of SFZC and Tassajara in 1970 This is an excerpt from the book Branching Streams Flow In The Darkness, a collection of lectures on the Sandokai given by Suzuki Roshi in 1970. .

Whatever we talk about at any moment is in our mind.
Everything is within our mind. But usually we think there
Out there, In the cosmos there are many stars,
but right now we can only reach the moon.

In a few years we may reach some other planets,
and eventually we may reach some other solar system.
In Buddhism, mind and being are one, not different.
As there is no limit to cosmic being,
there is no limit to our mind; our mind reaches everwhere.
It already includes the stars, so our mind is not just our mind.
It is something greater than the small mind that we think is our mind.
This is our understanding.

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