Science is very important. But science just studies or treats outward objects, and science will result in a materialistic understanding of life. But whether our human existence is spiritual or material is a big problem which has been discussed for a long, long time. We have no conclusion to it yet: Are we spiritual or material [laughs]? Is our mental function just an attribute of our body, or is our spiritual function the basic function for human beings? This kind of problem is not solved completely.
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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.
