If yoga practice is good, it’s all right. It is not yoga practice itself, but in what way or purpose they practice yoga is the very important point. It is like medicine: If you take it in a proper way, it is all right, but not if you rely on it too much. So, yoga practice is not the only way to help you [laughs]. We should know that I think.
—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.