No Other Way

I am not talking about ethics. What I can say now is for a person who understands that there is no alternative way to take. There is no “bad” if we understand our inmost nature. In the realm of morality there are two ways: good and bad. That is ethics. “This is good, and that is bad.” So, you have to take good instead of bad: That is morality. But that is if you live in a moral realm. But in a religious life, there is no alternative. There is only just one way. When you become quite religious, there is no other way to take. Water does not come up; it always comes down. —cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-26-D 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.

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