And we should not hang same scroll all the time. If you do so, the color will fade, or it will become dusty. So we have to change once in a while, and change it for something else. And we should once in a while, we should hang it. If you don't, scroll will become moldy. So it is pretty difficult to treat it. That is why old scrolls -- even the old ones looks like quite new, if it is good one and well-treated one. --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-07-23 - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. Edited by DC - Going through Suzuki lectures and posting anything that can stand on its own. Not looking for zingers or "the best of." I find that following these excerpts daily provides another way to experience Suzuki's teaching. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo
DC note. I gave up on66-01-22N, /There was too much that was not clear and it was too hard to gather anything coherent from it without a lot of work. So I moved on to another of the new transcripts. I'm not sure about this one either. We'll see/ He's talking about a scroll that Dryden Phelps had loaned him to hang at Sokoji or Tassajara. He talks about the type of scroll and the care of scrolls.
