According to Buddha, or our patriarchs, or founders of various religions, you should not have too fancy an idea about religion. A religion should be understood by the most foolish man [laughs], not only by learned wise men. A wise man’s religion is very complicated and very fancy. If he is too great, you will be attached to his religion. We should not attach to some particular religion.
Drawing by Stan White
—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.
