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.com, from 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