We repeat lecture after lecture, talking about some advantage of zazen practice. So naturally it means I am selling some drugs [laughing] or sake to you, and you are buying it, and you are taking it [laughter]. This is not so good. So, actually it is better to do it, without listening to anything—just by the suggestion of the teacher.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-01-21-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.
