We understand Buddha as the ideal, as a perfect one. At the same time, we understand him as a human being. Although we have an ideal, there is no need for us to be bound by it. The same thing is true with rituals and precepts. There is no need to be bound by precepts, and there is no need to observe our rituals as some formality.
—Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-06-29 - as found on
shunryusuzuki.com
edited by PF. Go to
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Drawing by Stan White