All the teachings which are written are the second principle [laughs]. The first principle is the principle which you cannot talk about, which we transmit from master to master, from patriarch to patriarch. But the teaching which we transmit is not written, you know. So how to transmit it—that is the point we should study [laughter].
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-07-23 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. These posts are also on Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram. We are continually working on improving the quality of transcriptions of Suzuki's lectures. After a new "verbatim transcript" is made, we create a minimally edited version which is more readable. See the most recently completed transcripts at shunryusuzuki.com/n.
