We do not talk about “Before this earth” like this. “What was here? Or what was there? What changed into this earth?” or “What will become of this earth?” This kind of research or the questions which a scientific mind will have to answer, those questions are not our point. And actually, that is just an intellectual quest or intellectual project. For us, those problems are not so serious problems.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-31 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.
