The way of a Bodhisattva in other schools is rather philosophical, so that is why they have their own system. But for the Zen school, our practice itself is the bodhisattva way. It’s not a philosophy—our actual practice is the bodhisattva’s way. Or management of the monastery is itself the bodhisattva’s way.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-C 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.
