Dogen Zenji says, “In our ordinary worldly life there is no Buddha’s way.” People understand that or not, I don’t know [laughs], but he says, “It is impossible to know what religion is in a worldly way.” But from the viewpoint of religion, there is no worldly life. Everything that we do is religion.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-26-A 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.