Do you know sake? Japanese wine made from rice. Another name for sake is “the best of all medicines” [laughs]. If you are not intoxicated by it, if you do not take too much, that is the best medicine of all [laughs]. But when you are intoxicated, that is sake which you should not take or sell.
—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.
