After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little. If your mind has ideas of progress, you may say, "Oh, this pace is terrible!" But actually it is not. When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself. So there is no need to worry about progress.
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Wandering Ronin commentary: Shunryu Suzuki, Roshi Philip Kapleau, Charlotte Joko Beck, Dogen, Bruce Lee, Bodhidharma, Siddhartha Gautama, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Trent Reznor, Layman Pang, Huangbo, Beethoven, Mozart.
Submitted March 26, 2018 at 08:14AM by WanderingRonin77 https://ift.tt/2G8yL4s
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