We are all Shakyamuni Buddha, but if you do not practice and train yourself, you cannot be Shakyamuni Buddha. We have hidden nature, but if we do not realize our hidden nature, we cannot be Shakyamuni Buddha. To realize his nature as your own is religion.
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—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-26-D 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.
