As a big tree in Muir Woods has annual layers, if you cut your life in another way, we have annual layers in our life, I think. That is precepts. You say that we don’t want it, but you have it [laughs]. So as long as you have it, you have to sit, and you have to know how to continue your effort, and you have another annual layer on your self. In this way we will develop Buddhism more and more.
—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.
