A deeper mutual understanding

You may care for something good—something that is absolutely true—and try to escape from this world, or if that doesn’t work, commit suicide. This is what we do with our life. But there is a way to resume a deeper understanding of life and work with people, without any prejudice or discrimination, and help each other with mutual understanding. The only way is to share our joy of a deeper understanding of life with people, and to participate in worldly life with more sincere effort. Then you will be a perfect human being, as well as a perfect Buddha’s disciple.

—Shunryu Suzuki