And right practice is also the foundation of our precepts. When you do not have right practice, you will hesitate to accept precepts. But if you have right practice, whatever the precept may be, you can accept it. Precepts for people who have right practice are called “bodhisattva precepts.” If you do something good, you have no time to do something bad. That is how you keep precepts.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 70-08-03 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.
