禅Shunryu Suzuki

proverb

Perfect, and Could Use a Little Improvement

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Each of you is perfect the way you are — and you can use a little improvement. Both are true at once; neither cancels the other.

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Lineage: Sōtō

By Shunryu Suzuki

Sources

  • contentCrooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

    David Chadwick

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