We Buddhists appreciate something plain and
common, like water, like white rice. Most people eat white rice with
soy sauce on it because it is so plain, it is so tasteless. Most people may
like lemon-aid or orange juice or Coca Cola rather than water. But when you
are seriously ill, which do you like? Coco Cola or plain water? So your inmost
nature wants something quite plain. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-06-22-B as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay, not just the super cool ones,
