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Monday, July 14, 2025

In a Religious Way

There are many scientists who become interested in religion. Some of them are perhaps interested in true religion, but some will not have a true understanding of religion. As long as their understanding is limited to the scientific realm, it is impossible to know what true religion is because religion should be understood in a religious way. Religion is not understood through philosophy or science.

Physicist (and Zen student) Doug Greiner

cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-26-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.