If someone is talking about Buddhism all night, drinking beer [laughs], smoking cigarettes, and says, “Oh, this is Buddhism. There is actually no such tradition of Buddhism.” That’s not Buddhism. Those who participate in cosmic self, self-use of cosmic existence, can deny Buddhism. For us there is no Buddhism, no particular Buddhism.
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—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-29-B 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.
