When we study Buddhism intellectually, we should be concentrated on this as well as our practice. Just practice alone is not so good, because you may practice zazen for the sake of something. You will abuse your Zen practice if you mix pure practice with various fancy or wrong practices.
—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.
