When I was
young, someone explained said, “You should cultivate virtue.
You should accumulate merit. If you give others the good pickles, you will accumulate merit. That is
why you should take the worst pickles.” And I thought, then I would rather take the best ones [laughs, laughter] to save
others --- to let them accumulate more merit. I
don't want to accumulate merit for myself. I didn't try, but I thought so.
Really I thought so. -------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-12-06-B as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC
