Zen practice is a practice which happens within your big mind. Precepts observation is how our life goes in its true sense. Precepts—your life goes in that way automatically. That is precepts observation. If you think the precepts are some particular rules which were set by Buddha, that is wrong understanding.
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—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.
