What we are studying like this in our lectures is to have some outline of Buddhism, intellectually. Without some outline of teaching, or suggestions, you cannot practice. You cannot study. That is why we give you some advice or framework of Buddhism and point out some important points in your practice.
—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.
