So, the most important thing is to believe in our Buddha nature and then intellectually you have to study our many ways. Back and forth we have to study our view of life. We have to have enough experiences to accord with reality. And then we have to acquire the power by which we can act without any restrictions, without any idea of teaching even. To act quite natural without being off the track.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-08-02 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.
