When you drink tea, you should not listen to a lecture [laughs]. I’m sorry, but it is true. When you listen to a lecture, you just listen. That is our way. We cannot do two things at one time because each activity includes everything. When you take tea, it means that taking tea, is all of your activity, and it covers everything. This is our practice.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-01-21-BN 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.
