When your meal is ready, someone who is responsible for the kitchen will bow to the zendo. This bow is for you, who practice zazen here, including Buddha. But usually they bow in the kitchen, so we don’t know, so we cannot answer the bow, so we don’t. But actually, the head of the kitchen will bow for us who practice this practice. The practice is done by your Buddha nature. This kind of bow is the bow which we do to the Buddha. Buddha is someone who is practicing this way. Not only Buddha, but also every existence is doing this kind of practice.
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—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-27-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.