..續本文上一頁r- [partial word]—all of your misunderstanding. You will stop creating suffering [laughs, laughter]. But if you know that—if you only know that you are creating suffering for yourself, this is good enough, and it will work pretty well. “Oh, I am creating suffering. I have created difficult problem.” If you—when you say so, you are already out of the suffering. You are not completely involved in the suffering you have.

　　So even [if] you get out of the suffering—if your one hand is out of suffering that”s enough, even though you are not completely free from suffering. But if your one eye will be enough to see what you are doing is enough. You can see by your one eye, you know [laughs, laughter]. You will say, “Oh!” [Laughs, laughter.] “Oh my. I am creating suffering. There is no need to open two eyes.”

　　But before you open one eye, it takes time maybe. But for someone who suffer a lot, it is not so difficult. That is why we do not help people so easily. We are waiting for [when] they are doing best and to confront completely with the problem.

　　Student H: In trying to follow your inmost request in behaving, you know, in expressing yourself, it would be very easy to confuse your strongest emotional feeling—wouldn”t it

　　—with your inmost request—

　　Suzuki-rōshi: Yeah.

　　Student H: —or to confuse your most logical pattern of thinking with it. And I”m afraid of kidding myself, you know, of thinking that just because I feel strongly about something that this is really what I should do. And so is your inmost request something quite beyond emotion and logic, either one

　　Suzuki-rōshi: Yes, it is. But you will find actual inmost request in emotional feeling. Logical feeling is secondary.

　　Student H: Because I”ve been brought up being told that I shouldn”t follow my emotions, and I should follow your logical thinking. I never know which.

　　Suzuki-rōshi: Yeah. But, you know, the emotional—whether it is bad or good or bad, you have it, and that is strongest, you know. It is easier to find out what is your inmost request in the strongest function of your mind. It is easier. And if you find out in the—your true nature, in your strongest emotional feeling, you will be very much encouraged by it. But if you find out the—what do I mean by inmost request by logical thinking, you think, “I understand that is inmost request.” That”s all. When you understand it, it will be forgotten, and you will [think]: “In this book, someone says inmost request is something such-and-such. So when it is necessary, if I read that part I can understand it.” This kind of understanding will not help you at all. And in case of necessity, you will forget all about it [laughs].

　　But if you find out your inmost request with, you know, by struggling or by—with tear, or with difficulty, you will never forget about it. And the inmost request is in the—in emotional feeling rather than logical reason. The logical understanding of inmost request is philosophy—philosophy of the true nature. And the understanding of inmost request by your tear is, you know, is not—is actual feeling—actual—it makes sense to you, you know. And you can apply it. You will never forget about it. So we should know that there is truth in our utmost distress or suffering.

　　So we should not forget that there is truth in suffering. And we should not try to escape from it. We should fight it out [laughs]. It is possible. When you, you know, hesitate, you will be lost. When you face to it, you will win. That is true [laughs].

　　Student I: Reverend Suzuki, could you say that again

　　 I couldn”t quite catch it. The last two sentences.

　　Suzuki-rōshi: If you hesitate to accept it, you will be lost. There is limit, or there is time for the suffering to stop. But true nature…

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