If you want to practice this kind of practice as a good example of everyday life, you need your friends, you need your teacher, you need the precepts we have. Even though it is almost impossible to observe them, they are necessary. And some form is necessary, and some way of working or some way of taking breaths is necessary.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-12-11-A 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.
