The purpose of our practice is to cut down completely habitual power [laughs]. To be completely free from our habitual energy or whatever it is— habits—habitual power, which is so-called karma. At least we should know that we are intrinsically free from karma. Karma is something which we create—we create karma, and we suffer from it.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-29-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.
