You should study our teachings - like fundamental
teaching. Like teaching of Four Noble Truths, or teaching of interdependency,
or teaching of everything changes, or teaching of emptiness, or teaching of
Middle Way. Those teachings will give you some intellectual understanding of our practice. So, practice is first, and intellectual study is next.------------------------------------------------------------------ Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-09-08-A as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay.
