A monastery is not some particular place.
Whether you can make Tassajara a monastery or not is up to you. It may be even
worse than city life even though you are in Tassajara. But when you have the
wisdom of the Prajnaparamita Sutra, even though you are in San Francisco, that
is the perfect monastery. This point should be fully understood. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-08-21- 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.
