Saturday, July 13, 2024

Drinking Sake

If some Zen master drinks a lot of sake, you may think the best way to obtain enlightenment is to take a lot of sake, and then you will attain enlightenment. But even though you take a lot of sake as he does, you will not attain enlightenment [laughs, laughter].

Group photo from Garuda - From left-to-right: Unknown, Karl Usow, Trungpa Rinpoche, Henry Schaeffer

cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 69-03-15 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.