When I say inmost request, it may sound like something emotional or some activity, but it is not so. Religious culture in our sense is not just building or painting or rituals in the monastery. Our religious culture includes all culture: science and philosophy and everything. From our viewpoint we call it religious culture. So, what you do—what you cook in the kitchen is religious activity. When you work in the zendo, it is religious activity. Not just bowing to Buddha is our religious activity.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-27-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.
