By right practice we mean fundamental practice from which you can start—then various teachings will come out. If you have right practice, you have already right teaching there. Without a foundation, various practices will not work. Right practice is the foundation of all Buddhist activity.
Soko-ji group photo - 1964
—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.