Kitchen Koans — Weekend Meditation

You’re perfect just as you are … and you could use a little improvement. 
— Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

Here’s a koan: is life about improvement or acceptance? Should we keep striving to be better, to achieve our goals, always refining and improving ourselves? Or should we accept who and what we are, own it and celebrate it, and realize that it’s actually enough?

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