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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Other Precepts

Strictly speaking we should have some other precepts—more [laughs] if—but you say, “Why don’t you make it simpler?” [Laughs] but I think you have to add some more because our precepts are prepared in Japan. So, here, you have to have other [laughs] precepts.        --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture 65-12-11-A - as found on shunryusuzuki.comfrom one of the newly discovered (2021) or recently significantly added to or changed lecture tapes. Edited by DC  - Going through Suzuki lectures and posting anything that can stand on its own. Not looking for zingers or "the best of." I find that following these excerpts daily provides another way to experience Suzuki's teaching. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo