‘We should be, you know, not only able to– being able to talk about– about practice, we should experience, you know– we must have full experience– better experience of our practice. And for– for someone, you know, it is necessary to have– to put confidence in your big mind which is always with you. And you should be able to appreciate things, you know, as a expression of the big mind. In short, you must have some faith in big mind, which I explained.
It is– actually, if you understand what I said now, it is actually more than faith, you know. It is ultimate truth which you cannot reject. Whether it is, you know, difficult to practice in that– whether it is easier or difficult to understand or to practice it literally, you– this is the absolute truth which you must accept. And you must have anyway strong confidence in your big mind which is always with you, which you will find wherever you go. I think this is– if you, you know, have strong confidence, at– I think you are already, in its true sense, Buddhist even though you don’t attain enlightenment.’ (from the Suzuki Roshi Archives)
Shundo David Haye 