If you observe precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe precepts without trying to observe precepts, then, you know, that is true observation of precepts.
—Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-06-29 - as found on
shunryusuzuki.com
edited by PF. Go to
instagram.com/cuke_archives or cuke.com/ig
for links to the full Shunryu Suzuki lecture and the source of the photo.
Narcissus Quagliata's watercolor sketch for a stained-glass window depicting Suzuki-roshi purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The sketch is hanging in the stairwell of 300 Page Street.