At first, Buddha did not have any idea of setting up precepts. When someone would do something wrong, Buddha just said, “That is not right. Why don’t you do it this way?” That was the original precept. So, there were no precepts in terms of “This is a precept all Buddhists should keep.”
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 69-04-29 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.
