To have a shadow of rules means, “I must do this.” That is a shadow. Sometimes you are scared of the shadow of yourself [laughs]. We should not have a shadow of the rules. Until you do it, it is not a rule. When you do it, that is a rule.
—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.
