[About government] they should know there are limits. And they should be more humble, and they could think more [laughs]. Then we will have a very good life. This is the only way to bring about a comparatively peaceful life. All those confusions are caused by misunderstandings of the truth. What I am talking about is something maybe you think unworthy because you compare religion to politics, or even to science, so it is difficult to understand. But religion is a different way of understanding our life. So, you should keep studying some things in some different ways.
—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.
