Even though this is very hard [referring to his stick], you cannot drive a nail with it [laughs]. Then you would lose the beauty of the material. So, this is not just material, it has meaning in it, and it has some way to be used. This kind of consideration is necessary in our life. Accumulating careless ways of treating things will result in a big evil. If each of us treat things in the right way, no evil can arise in this world.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-02-18 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.
