Only when a crow is black

Do not say there is no need to practice Buddhism because we have Buddha Nature intrinsically. There is Buddha Nature (eventually there is happiness) only when a swan is white, a crow is black, a human being is a human being.

~ Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Public lecture, September 1, 1963.

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