The Posture of Enlightenment

We Do Not Attain Divine Union: We Simply Are.

Shunryū Suzuki (1904-1971), the Japanese-born son of a Sōtō Zen abbot, emigrated to America where he served as the founding abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. He is the author of one most important books in the literature of American Buddhism, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice — indeed, his concept of “beginner…