September 2022 – watashi-wa in the snow

the worst horse

Watashi-wa often thinks of the image of racehorses which Shunryu Suzuki uses, in ‘Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind’, to describe the marrow, or essence, of Zen. Suzuki writes: ‘…it is said that there are four kinds of horses: excellent ones, good ones, poor ones, and bad ones. The best horse will run slow and fast, rightContinue reading “the worst horse”