You have a very advanced science and various kinds of philosophy. And your achievements are almost perfect, especially in natural sciences. These achievements are very meaningful for us Buddhists. But Buddhists will give another interpretation from another angle. We do not change what you have achieved. We believe in your achievements. There is no room to [laughs] ignore scientific truth. But that is scientific knowledge. We should know that it is not religious knowledge which is something different. Religion understands science from another angle, without changing the conclusions. We do not doubt scientific truth. We accept scientific truth. But we will give some other interpretation to it, without changing the conclusions of science.
—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.
