When you make some plans, you are responsible for it too. And at that time you should listen to what your inmost nature will say. That is morality or precepts. Our inmost nature will tell you what to do. If you understand this way, this is morality, or this is precepts. Whatever we do is precepts because we have some choice. We have to make decisions.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-22 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.
