There were many various laymen with independent-based religions for the sake of religion, not for the sake of people. At first Buddha wanted instead to protect his people as a priest. But he found out it was not possible. He studied various religions, and he found out all the religions at that time were not so good. So, he started his own religion to help people. That is, I think, Buddhism.
—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.
