All the buddhas are in your life in its true sense—should be within your life. If so, within your life there should be precepts. And that is, at the same time, the practice of zazen.
Image from: tricycle.org from the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-01-21-A 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.
