Just rules themselves mean nothing to you. When you want to help others or protect others, you can help others. Then there is no reason why you protect others. It is the same thing as to help yourself, to protect yourself from danger. That is the pure bodhisattva’s way.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-30-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.
