A mother tiger doesn’t have so many things to teach for her children. Living with their children is how to teach [laughs]. Actually, there are not many things to tell you. With beginner’s mind, if you walk like your teacher walks, that is a way how to study Buddhism.
Drawing by Stan White
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-03-26-C as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. These posts are also on Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram. We are continually working on improving the quality of transcriptions of Suzuki's lectures. After a new "verbatim transcript" is made, we create a minimally edited version which is more readable. See the most recently completed transcripts at shunryusuzuki.com/n.
