Student: Would it be possible for a bodhisattva to be a soldier? Suzuki: No, I don’t think so. Because human life has absolute value. Here there is a contradiction between science and bodhisattva-mind. Because here you have to deny the idea of utility or science. This is very subtle and very interesting.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-30-C 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.
