The truth is something which we cannot bring perfectly into our everyday life. Truth is something which we have to strive for. So, without striving for it now, to believe in some truth which is not truth, or fake truth, and to force some principle on others—big, big mistake. From the beginning, it is too much to expect. For us, it is too much to expect for a government. We cannot expect so much from government.
—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.
