Just do it, good or bad [laughs]. Convenient or inconvenient is not the question. When we decide on some rules, it is important to know whether they are practical or not. So, the rules should be decided little by little, we cannot force anything, and the rules will be created by yourselves. But once you have decided on some rules, we should obey completely, until we change the rules. The important thing is how to obey our rules. Once decided, we should obey the rules without any discrimination. Good or bad is out of consideration. In this way, you will learn pure mind.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-AN 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.
