Without practicing for the sake of Buddhism—without being satisfied with ourselves, to try to be something else. Sometimes we try to escape from our life and to go somewhere else or to live somewhere else. That is [laughs] not Buddhism. It is quite different.
Drawing by Stan White
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-08-28-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.
