If you practice a particular practice which has no foundation, you will eventually fall into a pit hole [laughs]. You will be caught by it, and you will lose your freedom. But if you have a foundation for your various practices, the various practices will work and help you. Right practice means that kind of foundation of practice. It is more than practice. So, when you have the foundation for your practice, even though your practice is not perfect, it will help you. That is right practice.
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—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.
