There must be some hope to live, some hope to be saved. Even though one admits to being sinful, they still have hope of being saved or else they cannot exist. At the same time, if one says, “For me, there is no sinful life. I am quite safe. Whatever I do, it’s all right.” That is also crazy. If you think after you’re enlightened you can do whatever you like, that is a big mistake [laughter].
Photo by Rowena Pattee (Kryder)
—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.
