When you have everything, there is no need to steal something from others. When you have no idea of other, when you understand your life is something which happens in your mind, it is not possible to steal anything. That is actually a practice of zazen. When you practice zazen, you practice zazen with big mind, the mind which is not a matter of big or small [laughs], with your true mind. That is our practice of zazen which is not different from observation of the precepts.
Calligraphy by Upasama (formerly Reuven ben Yuhmin)
—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.
