A Quote by Shunryu Suzuki-roshi on zen and pride

If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.

Shunryu Suzuki-roshi : Japanese Buddhist scholar & Zen master, founder of the San Francisco Zen Center
Shunryu Suzuki-roshi (1905 - 1971)
Source: Zen Mind, Begginer's Mind
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