Shunryu Suzuki Lecture Index
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n=tape noise, nn=more noise ns=slight noise z=audio exists transcript notes 8pt like this |
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| LECTURE FILE NAME | BOOKS Selections | Light Edits-note |
MP3 SS talk |
MP3 SS talk2 | Other not SS | TITLES AND FIRST LINES | DC NOTES audio 10pt print 8pt | Year New | |
| 61-12-00-wb ZC | Teacher and Disciple - Emptiness does not mean annihilation | see 62-03-00 | 4 | ||||||
| 62-00-00-BCR.3U ZC | LE | this is 62-10-wb but there are two versions | |||||||
| 62-00-BCR.6UX | this is 62-11-wb | ||||||||
| 62-12-00-wb | same | True Zen - If you want to meditate, you must have instruction of right teacher, | also 01to09 in one file | 9 | |||||
| 62-02-00-wb | same | What is Zen? - To study Zen is to particularize the essence of mind | 9 | ||||||
| 62-03-00-wb | same | Square Zen - The idea of emptiness does not mean annihilation. | see 61-12-00. This is an abbreviated version. | 9 | |||||
| 62-04-00-wb | same | A Buddha Story - In an old scripture told by Buddha there are four lands, | 9 | ||||||
| 62-05-00-wb | same | What is the Law - One day the World Honored One mounted the pulpit, | 9 | ||||||
| 62-06-00-wb1 | same | On Zazen - While you do zazen you will come to understand yourself completely… | 1 and 2 on same file | 9 | |||||
| 62-06-00-wb2 | with above | same | The Shinsanshiki Ceremony - On May 20th Roshi Suzuki was installed as Master of Sokoji… | 9 | |||||
| 62-07-00-wb | same | On Obon - Originality and universality are the same thing for a sincere student. | 9 | ||||||
| 62-08-00-wb | same | To Tame a Tiger - A government official named Shiba visited Hyabujo Mountain and was taken by the great beauty there. | 9 | ||||||
| 62-09-00-wb | same | Bodhidharma's Zen - The Emperor Wu built many temples, | 9 | ||||||
| 62-10-00-wb | LE | BCR3-The principal character in this model subject is Baso Dōitsu | was 62-00-bcr3 | 2 | |||||
| 62-11-00-wb | LE | BCR6-Um-mon Bun-en (Yun-men Wen-yen) was a disciple of Sep-pō | was 62-00-bcr6 | 2 | |||||
| 62-12-00-wb | LE | Religious Activity - The more we attempt to manage religious activity, the more we lose our fundamental way. | 2 | ||||||
| 63-01-00-wb | LE | Blue Cliff Record No. 14 and 15: A traveling monk asked Ummon-zenji: "What is this first teaching?" | 2 | ||||||
| 63-02-13-wb | LE | BCR-18 - Nanyo Echu Kokushi was a famous disciple of the Sixth Patriarch | 9 | ||||||
| 63-03-00-wb | LE | Blue Cliff Record No. 19: Gutei's Lifting up One Finger. Gutei lived in a small hermitage to be free from the fierce persecution | 2 | ||||||
| 63-04-00-wb | LE | BCR20- Zen may be said to be the practice of cultivating our mind to make it deep and open enough to accept the various seeds of ideas | 2 | ||||||
| 63-07-00-wb | LE | BCR25-Engo introducing the subject said, "If a man comes to a standstill at some stage, | 2 | ||||||
| 63-09-00-wb | LE | BCR30-Attention! A monk asked Jōshū, "I hear by rumor that you were at one time closely associated with Nansen. | 2 | ||||||
| 63-11-00-wb | LE | BCR36-Attention! One day Cho-sha went for a walk. When he returned to the gate, the gate-keeper asked, | 2 | ||||||
| 63-12-00-wb | LE | BCR40-Attention! While conversing with Nansen, the official Rikko said, "Sōjō said that heaven and earth and I are the same root | 2 | ||||||
| 64-02-00-wb | LE | BCR46-Attention! Kyo-sei asked a monk, "What is the sound outside the door?" The monk said, "It is the sound of raindrops." | 2 | ||||||
| 64-03-00-wb | LE | BCR49-Attention! Sancho asked Seppo: "What [Why?] does a mysterious golden-scaled carp escaped from the fishing net cast?" | 2 | ||||||
| 64-04-00-wb | LE | BCR52-Jōshū (personal name: Sramanera [?]) of this subject was a native of Northern China. | 2 | ||||||
| 64-05-00-wb | LE | BCR53-Introducing Engo said, "Obtaining the sole existing independent body, the total free activity takes place." | 2 | ||||||
| 64-06-00-wb | LE | BCR51-Seppo was a good example of a well-trained Zen Master. "Three times a visitor to Tosu and nine times an attendant to Tozai | 2 | ||||||
| 64-08-00-wbW | LE | Zen Center's annual week Sesshin [Trudy Dixon's summary of SS sesshin lectures] | 2 | ||||||
| 64-11-00-wb | LE | BCR73-Introducing, he said: "The true preaching of Dharma goes beyond preaching or not | 2 | ||||||
| 64-12-00-wb | LE | BCR75-The treasure sword always is present [beyond oneness and duality]. | 2 | ||||||
| 65-02-00-wb | LE | BCR82-Introducing, Engo said: Only a man with open eyes knows the catgut line of the fishing rod. | 2 | ||||||
| 65-04-00-wb | LE | BCR84-This Model Subject is about the Yuima-gyō (the Vimalakīrti-nirdesha Sūtra). | 2 | ||||||
| 65-07-00-wb | LE | pdf added 8-09 | BCR86-Introducing, Engo said: To control the world without omitting a single feather, to stop all the streams of passion without losing a single | 2 | |||||
| 65-07-08U | LA-Box | LE | Prajna Paramita Lecture - I want to still continue to speak about topsy-turvy views. | 9 | |||||
| 65-07-15U | LA-Box | LE | Prajna Paramita Lecture - This morning I want to explain the attainment… | 9 | |||||
| 65-07-22U | LA-Box | LE | Prajna Paramita Lecture - We are studying now, the sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, in the evening, and Prajna, | 9 | |||||
| 65-07-26-AV |
Audio AM-w |
E-Chant | A talk is always—the conclusion of my talk is always why we should practice zazen. This is not—my talk is not just casual talk. | audio file is ABC | 2 | ||||
| 65-07-26-DV |
Audio AM-w |
Recently I find many problems concerning to religious problem, such as psychology or LSD or the problem of how to bring about complete | z | 2 | |||||
| 65-07-27-AV |
Audio AM-w |
For a long time after Renaissance, you have forgotten the value of religion. You try to exchange religion for, you know, science and | traffic | 2 | |||||
| 65-07-27-BV SFZC |
Audio AM-w |
In our way of Zen, we emphasize the way-seeking mind—way-seeking mind. This is, in another word, bodhisattva-mind or way-seeking mind. | traffic | 2 | |||||
| 65-07-28-AN | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | ||||||||
| 65-07-28-BN | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | ||||||||
| 65-07-28-CV |
Audio AM-w |
fixed 8-09 | If you understand bodhisattva-mind in dualistic way, it is not right understanding. few words before this "The Bodhisattva mind which is | traffic - | 2 | ||||
| 65-07-28-DV |
Audio AM-w |
B-intro | I cannot think of anything to talk [about] for this evening. So if you have some question please ask me. | n | 2 | ||||
| 65-07-29-AV |
Audio AM-w |
B-intro | Purpose of practice is to have direct experience of buddha-nature. | traffic | 2 | ||||
| 65-07-29-BV |
Audio AM-w |
Student A: Why—why do we put our hands like this? And then—is—is that the best—is that—why? [Laughter.] | z | 2 | |||||
| 65-07-29-CV | Audio | B-intro | Suzuki-rōshi: Do you have some question—some more question? Student A: Reverend Suzuki, would you please talk about what the Buddhists think about killing …? | traffic | 2 | ||||
| 65-07-30-AV |
Audio AM-w |
bell | Don't be bothered by your mind. | AB one file - sep - don't see where yet | 2 | ||||
| 65-07-30-BV | see above | B-intro-AB | I have to give the conclusion to my talk for this sesshin. The science or philosophy is like a dissection. | see above | 2 | ||||
| 65-07-30-CV | * |
Audio AM-w |
B-intro | If you have a question, please give me. I want to answer about what I told you during sesshin. | traffic | 2 | |||
| 65-07-30-DV | Audio | Suzuki-rōshi: Do you have some question? Student A: Sensei, D. T. Suzuki wrote that "Zen was religion of the will." | traffic | 2 | |||||
| 65-07-31-AX | see 66-07-23N | n DB intro, SS & Sumi,sameas660723N | |||||||
| 65-07-31-BX | files were 1 n 2 joined -B isendofA-Sumi | ||||||||
| 65-07-31-C | WIP | Audio |
E-Chant AMP-w |
[no letter on E-chant file] | [check this out] | ||||
| 65-08-00 | chant | No Suzuki-speaker, chant-in Other Folder | |||||||
| 65-08-01 | |||||||||
| TS-65-08-01 | TS = Togen Sumi | ||||||||
| 65-08-05U | LA-Box | LE | Prajna Paramita Lecture - I want to give the conclusion to this Prajna Paramita Sutra this morning. | 9 | |||||
| 65-08-12U | ZM-25 | LE | Posture - I want to explain about our posture we take. | 9 | |||||
| 65-08-19U | ZM-92 | LE | Water - If you go to Japan and visit Eiheiji monetary,… before you enter the monastery you will the small bridge called, "Han Sak Kyo" | 9 | |||||
| 65-08-26U | ZM-121 | Treasure of Life - In Zen poem says, "after the wind stop I see the flower falling…" | 9 | ||||||
| 65-08-28-AV | LE | Audio | B-intro | Confucius said the most visible is the something invisible. | traffic | 2 | |||
| 65-08-28-BV | Audio | B-intro | B-cmnt | I have nothing in my mind. [Laughs.] | traffic | 2 | |||
| 65-09-00UX | same as 65-12-16 | ||||||||
| 65-09-09U | ZM-76 | Forgetting Ourself - The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. | 9 | ||||||
| 65-09-16U | ZM-102 | Everything Changes - The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transedency [means transience] or change. Everything changes is the basic teaching. | 9 | ||||||
| 65-10-07U | ZM-123 | Zen Experience - I am so glad to see you again. For two weeks I studied many things and I found that to have so many friends in | 9 | ||||||
| 65-10-14 | ZM-46 | Nothing Special - I don't feel to speak after zazen. I feel the practice of zazen is enough. | was dated wrong as 16 [14=thurs] | 9 | |||||
| 65-10-16-AU | It is a great joy to practice sesshin with you in this way. | 2 | |||||||
| 65-10-16-BU | We have finished sesshin with unusual results. | 2 | |||||||
| 65-10-21U | LA-Box | As you know, in Buddhism there are many schools. But you can classify Buddhism into Mahayana and Hinayana schools. | 9 | ||||||
| 65-10-28U | LA-Box | In the past, in Hinayana practice, in the first stage, we still have consistent thinking faculties. | 9 | ||||||
| 65-11-00-AU | Buddhism is very philosophical, and sometimes intellectual and logical. | 2 | |||||||
| 65-11.00-BU | Almost all of you have not practiced Zen so long, but I think you have made great progress. | 2 | |||||||
| 65-11-04U | ZM-29 | Swinging Door - When we practice our mind always follow our breathing. | 9 | ||||||
| 65-11-11U | ZM-21 | Beginner's Mind - People say, "To study Zen is difficult," but there is some misunderstanding why it is difficult. | was 11-10 but 11-11 = thurs | 9 | |||||
| 65-11-18U | ZM-36 | Self Nourishment - When you get up early in the morning by alarm, I think you don't feel so well. | was 11-17 but 11-18 = thurs | 9 | |||||
| 65-12-02U | ZM-43 | Bowing - To bow is very important, one of the important practice. | 9 | ||||||
| 65-12-09U | LA-Box | The Middle Way - Here we recite the sutra just once, but in the Zen Center we recite three times. | 9 | ||||||
| KR-65-12-11 | KR=Katagiri Roshi, Dainin Katagiri | intro here out of place??? 12-07?? | |||||||
| 65-12-11-AU | Audio | intro | Most of you are beginners, so it may be rather difficult for you to understand why we practice zazen or meditation in this way. | n - Intro from above moved here | 2 | ||||
| 65-12-11-BVU | Audio | Buddhism has many annual layers like a big tree. It is our tradition to respect those efforts our patriarchs have made for more than 2000 years. | nn | 2 | |||||
| 65-12-16U | Railway Track - The purpose of my talk is not to give you some intellectual understanding but to express just appreciation of our practice. | 9 | |||||||
| 65-12-23U | ZM-75 | Limiting Your Activity - In our practice we have no special object of worship. | 9 | ||||||
| 65-12-30U | ZM-116 | Nothing - I found out that it is necessary… absolutely necessary to believe in nothing. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-00-00-AE | ZM-113 | READINESS, MINDFULNESS (p110 ZMBM) [Can't find elsewhere.] In the Prajna Paramita Sutra the most important point, of course, is the idea of emptiness | |||||||
| 66-00-00-BE | ZM-110 | EMPTINESS (p113 ZMBM) [Can't find elsewhere.] "When you study Buddhism you should have a general house cleaning of your mind." | |||||||
| 66-01-06U | ZM-118 | Double Moon - Already we feel night become shorter and shorter. When I come here Dogen Zenji says, even though it is midnight, dawn is here. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-01-13U | LA-Box | Buddhism is, maybe, rather difficult to understand for you because Buddhism is not monotheism or pantheism. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-01-20U | ZM-104 | Quality of Being - The purpose of zazen is to attain the freedom of our being, physically and mentally. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-01-21-AV | Audio | B-intro | SHUSHŌGI, Sections 11–17: The next chapter which we will learn is about precepts. | n | 2 | ||||
| 66-01-21-BN | WIP |
Audio AMP-w |
B-E-cmnt AMP-w |
[Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] AM-w = Angus Atwell worked on audio |
n | ||||
| 66-01-22N | WIP |
Audio AMP-w |
AMP-w2 | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | nn | ||||
| 66-01-26U | ZM-38 | Horse Sense - In our scripture it is said that there are four kinds of horse. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-02-09U | ZM-55 | Bread - In India there were many schools. We count major school…we count six major schools, | 9 | ||||||
| 66-02-17U | ZM-83 | Constancy - The message for us for today was "cultivate your own spirit." It says there on the calendar. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-02-18-A | [Thought to be the end of previous lecture SR-66-01-22.] | ||||||||
| 66-02-18-BVX | misdated - moved to 67-11-06 - KPFA intv | ||||||||
| 66-02-24U | ZM-57 | Zen and Excitement - My master passed away when I was thirty-three so after his death I became pretty busy. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-03-03U | ZM-65 | The Joy of Giving - The precept today is giving, the joy of giving. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-03-13-AV | Audio | GENJŌ KŌAN, 1–3: Good morning. This lecture is for advanced student in his practice, but I think this lecture will help you even | n - weird testing sounds brief at 2:20 | 2 | |||||
| 66-03-13-BV | Audio | Claude Comment | Heart Sutra | SHUSHŌGI, Section 1: Shushōgi … consist of various teachings from Shōbōgenzō written by Dōgen-zenji. From 95 fascicle of his work, we | tape fixed, chant, commnt added-4-14-10-start was in mid | 2 | |||
| 66-03-26-AU |
Audio AM-w |
[Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | nn | 2 | |||||
| 66-03-26-BN | WIP |
Audio AMP-w |
[Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | nn | |||||
| 66-05-25V | Audio | GENJŌ KŌAN, 1–2: The secret of all the teaching of Buddhism is how to live on each moment. Moment after moment we have to obtain the | z | 2 | |||||
| 66-05-26V | Audio | GENJŌ KOAN, 5-13: Firewood turns into ash, and it does not turn into firewood again…. In this paragraph, he [Dōgen-zenji] taught us the absolute | z | 2 | |||||
| 66-06-00U | [The following section is compiled from Suzuki-rōshi's sesshin and Sunday lectures to complete the discussion of Buddhist precepts.] | 2 | |||||||
| 66-06-19-AV | Audio | GENJŌ KOAN, 1-11: … The first paragraph is the framework of whole Buddhism. | traffic-informal talking at first - class? | 2 | |||||
| 66-06-19-BV | Audio | GENJŌ KOAN, 7-9: … Here he talks about life and death. But this life and death does not just mean the problem of life and death. By "life | z | 2 | |||||
| 66-06-19-CV | Audio | Last time I explained the ten prohibitory precepts…. Those precepts look like quite common precepts and nothing—nothing special. | little low | 2 | |||||
| 66-06-19-DV | Audio | GENJŌ KOAN, 11-13: When the truth does not fill our body and mind, we think that—we think that we have enough. Here he says, even though we are not | low | 2 | |||||
| 66-06-23U | ZM-62 | When we sit in this way our mind is calm and quite simple. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-07-00 | LA-Box | In the last paragraph of Ashishoji [Shushogi?] is one of our scriptures complied in Meiji [right?] period by various Zen masters out of | 9 | ||||||
| 66-07-07 | |||||||||
| 66-07-23N | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] R Baker intro Sumi and Suzuki | n same as 65-07-31 - check to see which | |||||||
| 66-08-15-AV | Audio | … among many instructions about how to sit: to keep your back straight, pull your chin, and about mudrā in your hand. The most important thing is, we say, to stop thinking or to keep your mind on your breathing. | n | 2 | |||||
| 66-08-15-BV | Audio | [2-3 words] those who cannot appreciate the—the food we are serving [?] to you cannot appreciate our teaching in its true sense. | nn | 2 | |||||
| 66-08-15-CV | with above | [It is necessary] for us to think everything out, or else we—we find it pretty difficult to have firm conviction in our understanding and | nn - bc one file | 2 | |||||
| 66-08-15-DV | Audio | B-E-cmnt | The first day of the sesshin is almost finished…. We are now coping with the problem of causality. | n | 2 | ||||
| 66-08-15-WV | B-notes | Richard Baker commenting on tape confusion and summarizing missed part of Suzuki talk | File dated 660818D | 2 | |||||
| 66-08-16V | ? | Our mind should—should not be stagnated or in agitation. Our mind should be calm. And to be calm does not mean to be stagnant. | 2 | ||||||
| 66-08-17N | WIP |
Audio AMP-w |
[Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | n traffic and weird | |||||
| 66-08-18-AV | Audio | B-cmnt | [Lecture reconstructed by tape operator.] This is the fourth day of our sesshin. We have—the first three days, we have had a pretty | AB seem one lecture-cut repeat from B | 2 | ||||
| 66-08-18-BV | with above | SHŌBŌGENZŌ "Sokushin-zebutsu": Before translating original text, I want to make sure … [of] our traditional way of understanding of | with above | 2 | |||||
| 66-08-18-C | n | ||||||||
| 66-08-19-AV | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | SHŌBŌGENZŌ "Sokushin-zebutsu": … It may be better to start it from the beginning of his answer to the question given by … a monk who | 1&2-n A2 has sep briefsrcommentat end | 2 | ||||
| 66-08-19-BV | Don't be attached to your attainment as a result of … past effort. Or don't be attached to the refreshed stage you attained mechanically. | 2 | |||||||
| 66-08-19-CV | Audio | This fascicle of [Shōbōgenzō] "Sokushin-zebutsu," "Mind Itself Is Buddha"—in this fascicle, he [Dōgen-zenji] is giving us instruction [on] | n slow | 2 | |||||
| 66-08-19-DV | Audio | I think you … can easily understand this subject [Blue Cliff Records 45]: "Attention! A monk asked Jōshū: 'All the dharma lead up to the one, but what does the one lead up to?'" | slow | 2 | |||||
| 66-11-09W | Artino notes - “Wisdom is nothing but to be satisfied with what we have” - Suffering comes from desires. | 2 | |||||||
| 66-11-16W | Artino notes - “Zazen is to get to our true mind...” - Many people mistakenly believe that Zen Buddhism (and other religions) | 2 | |||||||
| 66-11-20W | Artino notes - Ordinary men carry a preconceived idea of the self into living, changing circumstances. | 2 | |||||||
| 66-11-30W | Artino note - “Give up gaining ideas and just sit” - Religion is just for ourselves. We cannot really be religious for others. | 2 | |||||||
| 66-11-30U | ZM-127 | We should establish our practice where there is no practice or no enlightenment. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-12-08U | ZM-131 | Buddha's Enlightenment Day - I am very glad to be the day Buddha was born… when Buddha attained enlightenment under the bodhi tree. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-12-17-AV | Audio | Silas-intro | In the first instruction of ten instructions in Gakudō-yōjin-shū [Points to Watch in Buddhist Training], Dōgen-zenji emphasize to arise the | n | 2 | ||||
| 66-12-17-BV | Audio | The fourth instruction [in Gakudō-yōjin-shū] is: The Need for Training in Buddhism without Self-Seeking Mind…. If we have gaining idea, we cannot practice Buddhism, which is something beyond our ordinal [ordinary] purpose of life. | n | 2 | |||||
| 67-01-05U | ZM-99 | Posture - In our practice the important thing is our physical posture we take, and breathing… way of taking breathing. | 9 | ||||||
| 67-01-12U | ZM-34 | Don't try to stop the thinking when you are practicing zazen. Let it stop. | 9 | ||||||
| 67-02-02U | ZM-86 | Communication - As I cannot speak your language so well that I find some way to communicate with you. | 9 | ||||||
| 67-03-12W | Artino notes - “We should sit in the middle of our problems...” - The world of thinking is that of our ordinary mind. | n | 2 | ||||||
| 67-03-22W | Artino notes - [Suzuki Roshi read a rendition of "Joshu's Mu." - "Has a dog Buddha nature?" Everyone knows that Buddha nature | 2 | |||||||
| 67-03-23U | ZM-31 | To live in the realm of Buddha Nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment. | 2 | ||||||
| 67-03-26W | Artino notes - “When small mind finds itself in big mind, there is peace...” - To transmit the Buddha-mind is to transmit our practice. | 2 | |||||||
| 67-04-02W | Artino notes - “Our pockets are full of treasure right now...” - We originally were and are Buddha nature. | 2 | |||||||
| 67-04-05W | Artino notes - “Give up all preconceived ideas and feelings ...” - A lecture here in the zendō is meaningful in a way quite different | 2 | |||||||
| 67-04-06U | ZM-125 | The True Teaching - Zazen is not one of the four activities. To walk, to stand, to sit, to lie down, we say, are the four activities, or four | 9 | ||||||
| 67-04-13U | ZM-71 | Mistakes in Practice - There may be various kinds of practice or ways of practice or understanding of practice. | 9 | ||||||
| 67-04-16W | Artino notes - A teaching, i.e., sutra, cannot be whole and perfect because it, like a medical prescription, | 2 | |||||||
| 67-04-22-AV | Audio | … When you want to study Buddhism or Zen, you must give up worldly desires or you must realize that it is useless to seek for worldly desires. | ns | 2 | |||||
| 67-04-22-BV | Audio | … This sesshin was wonderfully done. This is, I think, very unusual. By usual mind this kind of thing cannot be fulfilled. | n | 2 | |||||
| 67-04-26W | Artino notes - “Our human nature and that of the Buddha are the same” - [Suzuki read from a letter to him by an American student | 2 | |||||||
| 67-05-17W | Artino notes - “Zen emphasizes the simplest way of practice...” - You may think that the various religions of the world will, | 2 | |||||||
| 67-05-18U | ZM-59 | Right Effort - The most important point in our practice is to have right effort. | 9 | ||||||
| 67-05-21W | Artino notes - “Correct zazen is your home...” - Will power is something you have always.” Thinking power in zazen is not | date surely wrong, 680517-not Sun,Wed | 9 | ||||||
| 67-05-28W | Artino notes - “True activity includes everything...” - [Questions to Suzuki on difference between a "monk" and a "master." | 2 | |||||||
| 67-05-31W | Artino notes - It is so that religion is a cultural-social phenomena as well as a personal experience. | 2 | |||||||
| 67-06-01U | ZM-107 | Naturalness - There is big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. | 9 | ||||||
| 67-06-11U | Today I will explain buddha, dharma, and sangha. | 2 | |||||||
| 67-06-12U | From now on, on each Sunday service I want to continue the lecture about Shi-sho-ku. | 2 | |||||||
| 67-06-22 AU | LA-Box | I am so grateful to introduce to you Kobun Chino Sensei. | was 22 II | 9 | |||||
| 67-06-22 BU | LA-Box | Opposites - Tonight perhaps I was supposed to explain the chapter of the 32 pairs of opposites; right and wrong, there he points out 32 pairs | was no letter | 9 | |||||
| 67-08-00U | LA-Box | It is a pretty long time since I saw you all. But if we sit with you in this way I don’t feel so… I feel as if I were in San Francisco | 9 | ||||||
| 67-08-00WB-A | SUZUKI ROSHI WRITES ON THE PRACTICE PERIOD | ||||||||
| 67-08-00WB-B | If you are truly involved with the development of our way, | ||||||||
| 67-08-02U | … when you have a new experience, at first you may form a greater belief. | 2 | |||||||
| 67-08-14U | Our study will be concentrated for a while on the statement: "The mind itself is Buddha." | 2 | |||||||
| 67-08-20U | There are four ways of understanding the relationship of form and emptiness: form is emptiness, emptiness is form, form is form, | 2 | |||||||
| 67-08-21U | There is a slight difference between your usual activity and the activity in our monastery. | 2 | |||||||
| 67-08-23U | Buddhism is not any special teaching, and enlightenment is not any particular stage that you attain. When you understand your life completely, that is enlightenment. | 2 | |||||||
| 67-08-24-AU | … She was a part of the world, and whatever she said from the top of the mountain was in her mind. | 2 | |||||||
| 67-08-24-BU | … The main point of practice is to listen to your teacher and to practice zazen. | 2 | |||||||
| 67-08-24-CU-WB | We have come pretty far from our starting point that form is emptiness and emptiness is form, | ||||||||
| 67-08-31 | ZM-80 | Zen story or Zen koan is very difficult to understand before you understand what we are doing moment after moment. | 9 | ||||||
| 67-09-00AV | Audio |
Tonight my talk will be quite informal. You are, of course, interested
in Zen. But Zen is also Buddhism, you know. So it is necessary
for you [Lecture fixed 7-12, other lecture fragment removed, was two files, now one - 24kbs] |
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| 67-09-08-AN | WIP | see above |
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| 67-09-08-BU | * |
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chant | E-chant | Tonight I want to give you a correct idea of Buddhism or Zen. In a word, Zen is the teaching or practice of seeing "things as it is" or | crickets | 2 | ||
| 67-09-08-CN | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | ||||||||
| 67-09-08-DN | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | ||||||||
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| 67-09-08-GN | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | where are these tapes? | |||||||
| 67-09-12 | WIP |
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| 67-09-27U | ZM-90 | The more you understand our thinking, the more you find it difficult to talk about it, because the purpose of talk is to give some idea | 9 | ||||||
| 67-10-00 | WIP |
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| 67-11-02U | ZM-41 | We say our practice without gaining idea, practice without expecting even enlightenment | 9 | ||||||
| 67-11-06-IV | Audio | INTERVIEW-with Elsa Knight Thompson. Broadcast on KPFA on 1/06/68: Shunryū Suzuki-rōshi came to America about six years ago…. | was 660218B can KPFA better copy? | 2 | |||||
| 67-12-01-AV | Audio | In this sesshin, as I said this morning, our practice will be concentrated on putting power in your hara or tanden. | ns--bad audio fixed | 2 | |||||
| 67-12-01-BV | Audio | This afternoon, in my lecture I told you why we should practice zazen and what is our practice. After all, our practice is quite different from | creek | 2 | |||||
| 67-12-02V | Audio | Our inner power of practice will appear according to the situation | speeds up wrong audio fixed | 2 | |||||
| 67-12-04 A-xxx | renamed 67-12-02 |
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| 67-12-04-BV | Audio | The more … we study our way, the more it is difficult to explain it. But Dōgen-zenji thought there must be some way to make his descendent | creek [audio was no letter-04 ?? | 2 | |||||
| 67-12-05-AV | Audio | In previous lecture, I compared zazen practice and usual everyday activity. In usual activity, as you know, our effort is directed to | creek | 2 | |||||
| 67-12-05-BV | Audio | As the nature of our practice is, like I told you over and over, and the point [of] our effort is directed—is like this, for beginner it looks like | z | 2 | |||||
| 67-12-06-AV | Audio | The mind which [we] will acquire or obtain by our pure practice is, as I said, something which is not graspable—which is beyond our words. | creek | 2 | |||||
| 67-12-06-BV | Audio | We say everything has buddha-nature, so we have to treat as a buddha. | ns voice lowers at end | 2 | |||||
| 67-12-07V | Audio | Cermny | First Shōsan Ceremony at Tassajara: Although Buddha started teaching at Paranasi, but actually when he attained enlightenment | creek shosan | 2 | ||||
| 67-12-14U | LA-Box | It's been a pretty long time since I saw you. I am still studying hard to find out what is our way. | 9 | ||||||
| 68-00-00-B | WIP |
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| 68-01-08UX | This is 68-01-18 | ||||||||
| 68-01-11V | A and B joined [?] | 2 | |||||||
| 68-01-11AV | see above | ? | |||||||
| 68-01-11BV | see above | Audio | I already explained about Maitreya Buddha when I explained about the three period … of Buddhism. And in this occasion, I want to explain | spedup a bit at B2- 57:15 - sep tape? | |||||
| 68-01-12V | Audio | We are still studying about Samantabhadra Buddha. | frgmnt to :50 slowed downat1st spedat:43 | 2 | |||||
| 68-01-18U | LA-Box | In Agama Sutra there is a funny story. A man who had.. There was a man who had four wives. | 9 | ||||||
| 68-02-00-A | Audio | E-chant | During Sesshin the Lotus Sutra will not be appropriate for the lecture | sped a little? | |||||
| 68-02-00-B | Audio | A ray issued from Buddha's forehead between his eyebrows | sped up at end - join 1n2 for t-B not like A | ||||||
| 68-02-00-C | Audio | Maitreya asked Manjusri what was going to happen | n | ||||||
| 68-02-00-D | Audio | "Now, young men of good family, long before the time of that Tathagata Kandrasuryapradipa, | ns | ||||||
| 68-02-00-E | Audio | Manjusri again is answering Maitreya, telling him what he has seen. | ns | ||||||
| 68-02-00-F |
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"The monks and nuns at the time being, who strove after supreme, highest enlightenment, | level problems with some of these 00s | ||||||
| 68-02-00-G |
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Lotus Sūtra Series 1: Published in Wind Bell, Spring 1969 Maybe not - might be Togen Sumi. - DC 9-19 |
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| 68-04-23-AV |
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Because I was not well [?], I am sorry I couldn't join your practice so much. But you did very well, I think, and if—even though as a | n for A and B | 2 | |||||
| 68-04-23-BV |
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Shōsan Ceremony: A monk asked Hyakujō: "Is there some special things happen—happened in this temple?" | 2 | |||||
| 68-04-23-CV | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | n spedup lots - not suzuki - go over it ?? | 2 | ||||||
| 68-06-00 |
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| 68-06-28U | Audio | Esalen-check again to make V | 9 | ||||||
| 68-06-29U | Audio | Esalen-check again to make V | 9 | ||||||
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| 68-07-21V | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | … I don't think [laughs] we can reach conclusion. I was asked to talk about … something like sectarianism. What is Sōtō and what is Rinzai? | 2nd half prt 1 louder | 2 | ||||
| 68-07-24V | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | E-chant bells-han | To have complete understanding of our school … is at the same time … to have perfect understanding of … non-sectarianism. | crickets | 2 | |||
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| 68-07-27N | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | ||||||||
| 68-08-25V |
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| 68-10-00-BU | Audio | Lotus Sūtra Series 2: Non-verbatim transcript. | n | 2 | |||||
| 68-10-00-CU | Audio | Lotus Sūtra Series 2: Non-verbatim transcript. | n | 2 | |||||
| 68-10-00-DU | Audio | Lotus Sūtra Series 2: Non-verbatim transcript. | n | 2 | |||||
| 68-10-00-EN | WIP |
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| 68-10-00-FU | Audio | Lotus Sūtra Series 2: Non-verbatim transcript. | little higher voice | 2 | |||||
| 68-10-00-GU | Audio | Lotus Sūtra Series 2: Non-verbatim transcript. | ns | 2 | |||||
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| 68-10-00-IU | Audio | Lotus Sūtra Series 2: Non-verbatim transcript. | ns | 2 | |||||
| 68-10-00-JN | WIP |
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| 68-10-00-KN | WIP |
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| 68-10-00-LU | Audio | Lotus Sūtra Series 2: Non-verbatim transcript. | ns | 2 | |||||
| 68-10-00-MU | Audio | Lotus Sūtra Series 2: Non-verbatim transcript. | sped up at end | 2 | |||||
| 68-10-00-NU | Audio | Lotus Sūtra Series 2: Non-verbatim transcript. | n | 2 | |||||
| 68-10-12-AV | * | Audio | chant-inc | I want to explain our way—our way of zazen. Do you know—you know the famous story of Gutei? | z | 2 | |||
| 68-10-12-BV | * | Audio | Dōgen-zenji says, "Don't practice your way as if blind man—blind man—blind men trying to figure out what is elephant." | z | 2 | ||||
| 68-10-20U | Audio | Lotus Sūtra Series 2: Non-verbatim transcript. | n | 2 | |||||
| 68-10-21U | Audio | E-chant | Lotus Sūtra Series 2: Non-verbatim transcript. | n | 2 | ||||
| 68-10-22U | Lotus Sūtra Series 2: Non-verbatim transcript. | 2 | |||||||
| 68-11-11V | Audio | [If you want to know what buddha-nature is] … which is not possible to know what it is—but if you want to realize it, you should wait until | 1long endpause-2 brief seems separate | 2 | |||||
| 68-12-21U | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | 2 | |||||||
| 68-12-24N | WIP |
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| 68-12-29U | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | 2 | |||||||
| 69-03-09V | * |
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I am glad to see you from here [laughs]. … Whatever happen to us, it is something which it should happen …. So purpose of our practice | z | 2 | ||||
| 69-03-10V |
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fragmnt | … it was very, very cold. It was November? I don't remember exactly. … I want to—I want you to understand how you practice | kat and suzuki - fragment w/ps int end cut for trim | 2 | ||||
| 69-03-15V | NAS * | LE |
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In your zazen, perhaps you will have many difficulties or problems. | z | 2 | |||
| 69-03-16V |
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Our practice should be based on the idea of selflessness. | z | 2 | |||||
| 69-03-30V | NAS * | LE |
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[The point of] my talk is just to give you some help in your practice. | z | 2 | |||
| 69-04-08V | * |
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[Recently] I was talking about denial of, you know, desires. | n loud | 2 | ||||
| 69-04-19V | * |
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… Actually, Zen is not something to talk [about], and also it is something to talk [about]. | suzuki comes in at 20 after Yoshimura? | 2 | ||||
| 69-04-20V | NAS * | LE |
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It's—it is pretty difficult, but I will try—try to speak about purpose of our practice. | n | 2 | |||
| 69-04-29V |
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This morning I want to—to explain how to take our bodhisattva's vow. | Audio | 2 | |||||
| 69-05-18V |
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I don't know what to say. I am already 65 years old. Today I became 65. | z | 2 | |||||
| 69-06-00V |
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A famous Chinese Zen master, Yakusan, did not give lectures for a long time. | n | 2 | |||||
| 69-06-17V |
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Just to—just to practice zazen, you know, will not be perfect enough. | z | 2 | |||||
| 69-06-22V | * |
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E-chant bells | Dōgen-zenji says: "Everything is encourages us to attain enlightenment. Mountains and rivers, earth and sky: | z | 2 | |||
| 69-06-29N | WIP |
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| 69-07-00V |
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chant | E-chant | Morning. In—in America, between Rinzai Zen and Sōtō Zen there … must be some clear understanding of—of the two, or relationship of | was-1 and endsatend why1?-check orig | 2 | |||
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| 69-07-01V |
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It is rather difficult for us to figure out why we started to practice zazen. | n flange sound | 2 | |||||
| 69-07-03V |
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I have explained the poem about "Emptiness is form," or shōchūhen. | creek level low | 2 | |||||
| 69-07-08V |
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E-chant | Tonight I have nothing special which I want to talk [about]. | z | 2 | ||||
| 69-07-09V |
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In our previous lectures we have studied the relationship between—relationship between real and seeming, or emptiness and forms. | creek | 2 | |||||
| 69-07-11V | Audio | Cermny | Trudy Dixon Funeral - Go, my disciple Sesshin Baiho. | z | 2 | ||||
| 69-07-15V |
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E-chant | Again, I have nothing in my mind [laughs, laughter]. | z | 2 | |||
| 69-07-20V | NAS | LE |
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chant | If you go to some library you will see many books. And those—in those books, we will find out our achievement, our human knowledge, | loud | 2 | ||
| 69-07-26V | Audio | A monk asked … Zen Master Tōzan … "It is so hot," you know. "How is it possible to go somewhere where it is not hot?" | creek | 2 | |||||
| 69-07-28V | Audio | … mind. That is the purpose of counting [-breathing practice]. Not just count, you know. | loud crickets | 2 | |||||
| 69-08-01V | Audio | chant | As a Buddhist, of course, the most important precept is to—to believe in Buddha and his teaching and his disciples. | loud creek | 2 | ||||
| 69-08-02V | Audio | I'm afraid I … am making you hotter [laughs]. … We have four or three series of Buddhist teaching. The teaching … that everything is | voice goes low crickets | 2 | |||||
| 69-08-03V | Audio | As most of you know, this is Yoshimura Ryogen-sensei. Ryogen Yoshimura-sensei. … May be better to explain about the selflessness | crickets | 2 | |||||
| 69-08-06V | * | Audio | chant | E-chant | I think you are facing actual problem in your zazen practice. The worst one may be the pain of your legs, maybe. | loud | 2 | ||
| 69-08-07V | NAS * | LE | Audio | E-chant | [In] Buddhist scripture, you know, there is a famous story. Water is same, but—water is, for human being, is water [laughs], and for | loud | 2 | ||
| 69-08-12V | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | E-chant | [I did not] prepare for tonight lecture anything. So I want you to ask some questions, and I will answer for the question, as I have nothing | slipping tape on 2 | 2 | |||
| 69-08-18V | Audio | Tonight I want to discuss about our way to attain liberation or enlightenment. | crickets | 2 | |||||
| 69-08-21V | Audio | I am sorry I haven't prepare anything for lecture—for this lecture. So I should be very happy if you have some question. | crickets flange trim more? | 2 | |||||
| 69-08-23V | Audio | Let's continue to study about twelve links of causation. | crickets | 2 | |||||
| 69-08-25V | Audio | Tonight, maybe, we will have question and answer. | 1 n 2 dif lect 2 is 1? Chants at frst n end creek and crickets | 2 | |||||
| 69-08-28V | Audio | Weird E-fragmnt | I want you to ask me a question. [Laughs.] I have nothing in my mind to say. | choose best for trim of the two versions | 2 | ||||
| 69-08-30N | WIP |
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| 69-09-00-AV | NAS * | LE |
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In our practice, the most important thing [is] to—to know—to know. |
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| 69-09-00-BV | NAS | LE |
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We have been talking about—discuss—discussing about reality, actually, and how we practice our way in our zazen and in our |
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| 69-09-00-CV |
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We are talking about our practice. What is the practice, and what is enlightenment, and how we practice. |
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| 69-09-00-DV | Audio | We discussed about the question and answer between the Seventeenth Patriarch and Eighteenth Patriarch. | crickets | ||||||
| 69-09-00-EV | Audio | Shōsan Ceremony: Suzuki-rōshi: … it will be the foundation of the everyday activity. | c | 2 | |||||
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| 69-09-14V | NAS * | LE |
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Sunday school—a Sunday-school girl saw me in sitting, and she said: "I can do it." And she crossed her legs like this [gesturing], audio incomplete | added from orig for t-named 14plus | 2 | |||
| 69-09-14 II | xtra w/ above | [same as above but longer] | bad sound but longer-can't be original-dif? | ||||||
| 69-09-16-IAU | Audio |
Peter Schneider interviews with Shunryu Suzuki |
nnn dc trnsc careflly but need to check | 9 | |||||
| 69-09-16-IBU | Audio | same as above | nnn | 9 | |||||
| 69-09-16-IC | in A&B | Audio | same as above | nnn but no third tape in original | |||||
| 69-09-16-W | Suzuki's curriculum vitae made with Kobun Chino | ss curriculum vitae | 9 | ||||||
| 69-09-16-X | notsurewhatthisis - Crestone dup tape? | ||||||||
| 69-09-16V | * | Audio was wrong | I have not much chance to think about why I came to America or why I became a priest, but today when—while I was talking with Peter |
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| 69-10-14V | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | Since I resigned from Soko-ji Temple, I—my mind become more busy than before. | z | 2 | ||||
| 69-10-20V | Audio | Lotus Sūtra, Ch. 2: As many of you are the students who joined our training—this training period, and perhaps many of you didn't join the | spedup toward end | 2 | |||||
| 69-10-23V | Audio | Lotus Sūtra, Ch. 2: … out things difficult to understand. The mystery of Tathāgata is difficult to understand, Shāriputra. | sped up | 2 | |||||
| 69-10-25V | Audio | Lotus Sūtra, Ch. 2: Last night I explained the most important part of this chapter." | sped up | 2 | |||||
| 69-10-28V | Audio | Lotus Sūtra, Ch. 2: I think there must be many things to prepare before you … read Lotus Sūtra. | extreme spedup | 2 | |||||
| 69-10-30V | Audio | Lotus Sūtra, Ch. 2: The print … you have got there is … mostly translated from Kumārajīva's translation. | extreme spedup | 2 | |||||
| 69-11-07V | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | Lotus Sūtra, Ch. 2: In this sūtra in Chapter II, "Skillful Means," he … is correcting our misunderstanding about the vehicle of shrāvakas | loud | 2 | ||||
| 69-11-09V | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | Peter Schneider: I would like to ask Rōshi a question for the Wind Bell. | trim | 2 | ||||
| 69-11-11V | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | If you—if you have some question, I am happy to answer for the question. And in that way, if necessary, I will refer to the Lotus Sūtra. | z | 2 | ||||
| 69-11-13V | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | Tonight I am supposed to explain "form is emptiness, and emptiness is form." | z | 2 | ||||
| 69-11-16V | ZM-133 * | Audio | E-chant | This morning, I want to talk about our practice. And here in America, something special is happening: that is our group. | z | 2 | |||
| 69-11-22V | Audio | I am so grateful with you to have chance to practice zazen in this, maybe, magnificent [laughs] building. | c | 2 | |||||
| 69-11-25V | Audio | Kat | I am very happy to be with you. | seems mostly Kat - edit | 2 | ||||
| 69-11-29V | Audio | … mind. Without this way-seeking mind, our practice does not work. We say "just to sit," or shikantaza. | z | 2 | |||||
| 69-11-30V | Audio | I think nowadays way-seeking mind is understood like something to do good in its—with a pure motivation—not for sake of success or not for | c | 2 | |||||
| 69-12-01V | Audio | Our way-seeking mind is buddha-mind. And our practice is—makes sense when you practice with buddha-mind, or way-seeking mind. | creek | 2 | |||||
| 69-12-02V | * | Audio | To accomplish something is difficult. And, you know, the difficulty you have moment after moment, which you have to work on, will continue | z | 2 | ||||
| 69-12-03V | Audio | I explained briefly about bodhisattva mind. And we have also bodhisattva practice—bodhisattva practice—we count six and | little sped? | 2 | |||||
| 69-12-04V | Audio | Our sesshin is already nearing to the end. As I said before, this sesshin will not come back again. So we must make best effort in our | little sped? | 2 | |||||
| 69-12-05N | WIP |
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| 69-12-21-AV | Audio | E-chant | Since I moved in this building, people ask me how do you feel [laughs]. But I haven't find myself in this building. | loud -audio no A or B | 2 | ||||
| 69-12-21-BU | ? | Everyone seeks for true happiness, but happiness cannot be true happiness if the happiness is not followed by perfect composure. | 2 | ||||||
| 70-01-04V | NAS | LE | Audio | E-chant | In our zazen practice, we stop our thinking and we must be free from our emotional activity too. | z | 2 | ||
| 70-01-11VA | Audio | We have ordination ceremony for Bill Kwong and Silas Hoadley after this lecture—immediately after this lecture. I wanted to talk about | n A B on files - 1 2? Wind? | 2 | |||||
| 70-01-11VB | Audio | check this | I wanted to talk about ordination ceremony, but I think it is pretty difficult to explain it. | was 71-01-11V - check these out | |||||
| 70-01-18V | Audio | chant | In Japan now it is a season of typhoon. … When Dōgen-zenji went to China as a Japanese priest … he was given … last seat of the zendō. | z | 2 | ||||
| 70-01-25V | NAS | LE | Audio | chant | E-chant | The difference between so-called-it Therāvada Buddhism and Sarvāstivādian or Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna is very important | z | 2 | |
| 70-01-31V | * | Audio | Our—our effort in our practice is quite different effort you make in our usual life. | mic bumping sound | 2 | ||||
| 70-02-01-AV | NAS * | LE | Audio | How do you—how do you like zazen? [Laughs, laughter.] And maybe—maybe better to ask you how do you like brown rice? | mic sound | 2 | |||
| 70-02-01-BV | Audio | chant | Sesshin is almost—sesshin has almost completed. In this sesshin, we have learned many things. | bit of ms | 2 | ||||
| 70-02-08V | Audio | Each time we—we start lecture, we recite "an unsurpassed, penetrating Buddha," and so on. This is the essential—pointing at | ms | 2 | |||||
| 70-02-22V | Audio | I think most of you participate one-week sesshin from tomorrow. … I want to explain, you know, what is shikantaza. | ms | 2 | |||||
| 70-02-23V | Audio | In this sesshin I suggested to practice shikantaza. For—anyway for beginner, you know, it doesn't make much difference [laughs]. | ms | 2 | |||||
| 70-02-25V | Audio | Yesterday I talked about … two ways of practice: one is zazen practice under the guidance of the right teacher, and the other is how | ms | 2 | |||||
| 70-02-28V | * | Audio | various chants | Before we sit, six-day sesshin was too long. But after we completed, it was too short [laughs, laughter]. I think you feel, you know, quite | lots of chanting at end saved off on t | 2 | |||
| 70-03-01V | * | Audio | intro | Actually, because of my bad throat, I don't speak for people outside, you know. I o- [partial word]—I hardly manage to keep my lecture in | intro where is this? Yvonne and Silas-only this file lower kbps | 2 | |||
| 70-03-08V | NAS * | LE | Audio | E-chant | [Recently my thought is concentrated on the idea of emptiness.] Whatever I say, I am actually talking about what is emptiness, | n | 2 | ||
| 70-03-15V | Audio | I think most of you are rather curious about what is Zen. But Zen is actually our way of life, and zazen practice is actually as—like as you | n | 2 | |||||
| 70-03-28V | Audio | Way-seeking mind is the most important. When you have some difficulty in your everyday life … there you will have chance to arise | n | 2 | |||||
| 70-03-29V | NAS * | LE | Audio | How do you feel now? [Laughs.] Excuse me. I thought of funny thing right now [laughs]. I feel as if, you know—I don't know how you feel | loud n | 2 | |||
| 70-04-12V | Audio | The April—April the eighth is the day we celebrate Buddha's birthday in China and Japan. | z | 2 | |||||
| 70-04-25V | ?? | from A n B ? See below | 2 | ||||||
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Cermny | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | 1-op-ng cer page st -sr others tlk 2-sr tlk | ||||
| 70-04-25B | Cermny | more ceremony | |||||||
| 70-04-26U | OPENING OF PAGE ST BLDG | 2 | |||||||
| 70-04-28V | NAS | LE | Audio | Since Tatsugami-rōshi came, you must have heard Dōgen-zenji's name so many times. | z | 2 | |||
| 70-05-02-AV | Audio | Right now you—your feeling has changed from the feeling you had in your sitting. | z | 2 | |||||
| 70-05-02-BV | Audio | E-chant | First of all, a sincere—our practice—sincere practice—our sincere practice is not, you know, practice just for himself. | z | 2 | ||||
| 70-05-03V | * | Audio | To have—to have sincere practice means to have sincere concern with people. So our practice is actually based on our humanity. | z | 2 | ||||
| 70-05-05V | Audio | E-chant | Once a time of one thousand or two thousand is not so long time in comparison to our idea of time. | z | 2 | ||||
| 70-05-10V | Audio | E-chant | This morning I want to reflect on our long, long practice, which we started maybe more than ten years ago. The purpose of Zen Center | creek? | 2 | ||||
| 70-05-17V | * | Audio | E-chant | This morning I want to talk about Zen—Zen precepts. As you know, precepts is not—real meaning of precepts is not just rules. It is rather our way of our life. | z | 2 | |||
| 70-05-24V | Audio | E-chant Yvonne | Good morning. Actually this morning I asked Yoshida-rōshi to give some talk to you, but as he—as she has just arrived from Japan, and | traffic | 2 | ||||
| 70-05-27V | SDK | Audio | Reb intro | [Sandōkai Lecture] I am so grateful to have chance to discuss about or to talk about Sandōkai. | reb intro says may25 made other time? Crk | 2 | |||
| 70-05-30V | SDK | Audio | [Sandōkai Lecture] I explained in last lecture about the title of this scripture, Sandōkai—what does it mean. | crk | 2 | ||||
| 70-06-01V | SDK | Audio | [Sandōkai Lecture] I want to know the feedback. [Laughs, laughter.] Oh my. [Laughs.] After all, it's better to follow one character after | z | 2 | ||||
| 70-06-03V | SDK | Audio | intro | E-chant | [Sandōkai Lecture] Last night [lecture?], I explained ri and ji. | sped up - last part less | 2 | ||
| 70-06-06V | SDK | Audio | E-chant | [Sandōkai Lecture] Purpose of study of Buddhism is to have perfect understanding of things, and subjectively to understand ourselves. | z | 2 | |||
| 70-06-10V | SDK | Audio | [Sandōkai Lecture] In my last lecture, although I did not literally explain about those sentences, but I almost explained about it. | z | 2 | ||||
| 70-06-13V | SDK | Audio | [Sandōkai Lecture] Next—as we have big blackboard, I want to explain those characters. | crk | 2 | ||||
| 70-06-17V | SDK | Audio | [Sandōkai Lecture] In last lecture I explained the everything—independency of everything. | crk | 2 | ||||
| 70-06-20V | SDK | Audio | [Sandōkai Lecture] First I will explain the two terms mei and an, "brightness" and "darkness." | crk | 2 | ||||
| 70-06-25V | SDK | Audio | [Sandōkai Lecture] Now we are still talking about the reality from the light of independency. | crk | 2 | ||||
| 70-06-27V | SDK | Audio | [Sandōkai Lecture] Today's lecture will be about how we observe everything—how we understand everything and how we should treat | crk | 2 | ||||
| 70-06-28U | SDK * | [Sandōkai Lecture] You should sit zazen with your whole body; your spine, mouth, toes, mudrā. [Transcript is not verbatim, been edited.] | 2 | ||||||
| 70-07-04V | SDK | Audio | [Sandōkai Lecture] Tonight and tonight lecture and one more lecture will be the last concluding lecture for Sandōkai. | crk | 2 | ||||
| 70-07-06V | SDK | Audio | [Sandōkai Lecture] Here it says: Ayumi wo susumure ba gonnon ni ara zu. | z | 2 | ||||
| 70-07-08V | * | Audio | [Ekō Lecture] I want to explain ekō. | crk | 2 | ||||
| 70-07-10V | Audio | [Ekō Lecture] [The first chanting is chanted] in Buddha hall. | nnn very low at end | 2 | |||||
| 70-07-11V | Audio | E-chant | [Ekō Lecture] Last night I explained … already about arhat. The second sūtra—second sūtra reciting of Prajñā Pāramitā Sūtra is for arhats. | crk | 2 | ||||
| 70-07-12V | NAS | LE | Audio | [Ekō Lecture] In the second recitation of the Prajñā Pāramitā Sūtra, we dedicate for the—to the arhats and many various sages in the—i | z | 2 | |||
| 70-07-13V | Audio | [Ekō Lecture] Tonight I want to explain the third ekō. The third sūtra we chant in every morning is Sandōkai—Sandōkai. | crk | 2 | |||||
| 70-07-15V | Audio | [Ekō Lecture] The last chanting will be the chanting for the—for monks, you know, or students who is related—who was—who passed | crk | 2 | |||||
| 70-07-19V | * | Audio | E-chant | After—after forty days of my leaving from here I feel I am a stranger to the building, not to you. | z | 2 | |||
| 70-07-26V | Audio | E-chant | This morning, I want to talk about our practice, as usual [laughs], as—especially when we have various teachers. | trfc | 2 | ||||
| 70-07-28V | Audio | E-chant | This evening I want to talk about some problems you have when you come to Zen Center. | z | 2 | ||||
| 70-07-31V | NAS | LE | Audio | sesshin rules-DW | What he—she meant is if you stand up, you know, with painful legs or sleeping legs, you will [laughs]—it will be dan- [partial word]—dangerous [laughs, laughter]. | little sped up-DW at end answ q | 2 | ||
| 70-08-01V | Audio | In this sesshin, I have been explaining the context of our practice and, at the same time, the meaning of rules and precepts. | z | 2 | |||||
| 70-08-02V | NAS | LE | Audio | In Japan, a terrible fire broke out, and some hotel was burned down, and many sightseeing people killed in the fire. | 1 change at 29:55 | 2 | |||
| 70-08-03U | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | 2 | |||||||
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| 70-08-04V | Audio | E-chant | In—in everyday life, to observe precepts and, in our practice, to continue our zazen looks like different, but actually it is same. | z | 2 | ||||
| 70-08-09V | Audio | Paul Discoe and [1 word unclear] Reb Anderson, who have come here to be ordained as a disciple of the Buddha. Listen to—listen calmly | nn | 2 | |||||
| 70-08-16-AV | Audio | chanting | … restore the Buddhist teaching in its original way. So that you don't know anything about Buddhism is very good [laughs]. | nn redivide a and b | 2 | ||||
| 70-08-16-B | Audio | [No verbatim transcript available. (Sound problem.)] | nn see above | 2 | |||||
| 70-08-23V | [No verbatim transcript available. (Sound problem.)] | 2 | |||||||
| 70-08-25-AV | Audio | E-chant | As some of—some of you may know, tomorrow I am leaving San Francisco for—for a while and coming back December first or second. | z | 2 | ||||
| 70-08-25-BU | I am so grateful to have this ordination ceremony for you, our old students. This is actually the second time ... the second ordination | 2 | |||||||
| 70-12-13V | Audio | E-chant | In this trip, I studied in Japan [laughs], you know, and I found out many things, and many things happened. | z | 2 | ||||
| 70-12-20V | Audio | chant | In my last trip to Japan I found out many things. The feeling I had there was—they were—you know, Japanese people nowadays are | mv zendo - need trim with intros n cer | 2 | ||||
| 70-12-23V | Audio | intro chant | ALL | Zazen practice, for us, more and more become important. | n low level-MV womn Kwong-intr-chant-SR | 2 | |||
| 70-12-27V | * | Audio | Dōgen-zenji said sickness does not, you know, destroy—destroy people, but no practice will destroy people. | z | 2 | ||||
| 71-01-03V | Audio | Last Sunday I remember I talked about our surrounding, which is civilized world and busy world, and world of science and world of | z | 2 | |||||
| 71-01-10V | NAS * | LE | Audio | [What] were given about our practice referring to Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva? What is, you know—who is Avalokiteshvara? | z | 2 | |||
| 71-01-11V | fix this | check this | misdated-should be 70-01-11V | ||||||
| 71-01-16V | NAS * | LE | Audio | Something valuable [laughs]—not jewel or not candy, but something which is very valuable. You recite right now, you know, a verse on | z | 2 | |||
| 71-01-23V | NAS * | LE | Audio | Most of us, maybe, want to know what is self. This is a big problem. | z | 2 | |||
| 71-02-05V | * | LE | Audio | Purpose of sesshin is to be completely one with our practice. | z | 2 | |||
| 71-02-07V | Audio | chant | E-chant | This morning I said you must find yourself in each being. That is actually what [Ryōkai] Tōzan-zenji said: Don't try to seek yourself. | z | 2 | |||
| 71-02-09V | Audio | E-chant | I think, as Yoshimura-sensei told you the other night, Zen masters has some humorous [laughs], you know, element in their life. | z | 2 | ||||
| 71-02-12-AV | NAS | LE | Audio | chants | talks chants | This is the seventh day of the sesshin, and you came already too far. So you cannot, you know, give up [laughs, laughter]. | 2 lectures - saved one with all chants | 2 | |
| 71-02-12-BV | ? | The Sixth Patriarch said: "To dwell on emptiness and to keep calm mind is not zazen." | z | 2 | |||||
| 71-02-13V | Audio | E-chant | Good morning. We have been practicing sesshin, so I feel I didn't see some of you for a long, long time. We actually—"sesshin" means, you | z | 2 | ||||
| 71-02-20V | check this | Buddha's practice goes first. Our practice goes. We say, "our practice," but it is actually Buddha's practice. | A? short - n go back to orig? | 2 | |||||
| 71-02-20 | Audio | Tats Katagiri | A is ss, B1 and 2 tats kat | ||||||
| 71-02-23V | NAS | LE | Audio | It is more than six months [laughs] since … I came to Tassajara, and I was very much impressed, you know, of your practice at this time. | crk | 2 | |||
| 71-02-27V | * | Audio | The purpose of our practice is, of course, to maybe to have full enlightenment. Why we cannot have enlightenment is because | z | 2 | ||||
| 71-03-02V | Audio | There are various kinds of religion, but why we have to [have] religion—this question is answered not only by religious leaders | nnn? | 2 | |||||
| 71-03-09V | NAS | LE | Audio | One day a Chinese famous Zen master [Baso Dōitsu] was making a trip with a—with his disciple. A [flock of] geese, you know, fly—were | z | 2 | |||
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| 71-03-12U | It is not so easy to say what actual practice is, what Zen is. But anyway, I want to try. | 2 | |||||||
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| 71-06-05V | NAS * | LE | Audio | First of all, I want to explain, you know, I want you to understand what is our practice. You know, our practice we say, "just to sit." | z | 2 | |||
| 71-06-06V | Audio | Thank you very much … Yoshida-rōshi. I have heard of how important practice is to wear okesa. | low level at first | 2 | |||||
| 71-06-07V | NAS * | LE | Audio | Shikantaza, zazen, is—our zazen is just to be ourselves. Just to be ourselves. We should not expect anything, you know, just to be | trfc | 2 | |||
| 71-06-09V | NAS | LE | [I thought there was another day of sesshin, but today is our last day.] I think you, you know, have understood … what is zazen as | 2 | |||||
| 71-06-12V | Audio | We say "Zen Center student," you know. Or, we say "Zen Center." But it is—tonight—today—I want to make this kind of idea clear, | z only 2 | 2 | |||||
| 71-06-19U | Last Sunday I told you that, whatever religion you belong to, it doesn't matter when you to come and sit with us. That is because our way | 2 | |||||||
| 71-06-20V | Audio | This sesshin—we call it … okesa-sewing sesshin. | z only 2 | 2 | |||||
| 71-06-22V | * | Audio | I don't know where to start, you know, my talk, but anyway what I want to discuss with you tonight is how to, you know, apply our | z | 2 | ||||
| 71-07-02V | * | Audio |
[Today I would like to] lecture about precepts. correct audio put here 8-09-11 |
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| 71-07-06V | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | I want to continue my talk about precepts—Buddhist precepts. | muff | 2 | ||||
| 71-07-17V | Audio | [In my last lectures] I explain about our precepts. As you must have found out, "the precepts," we say, but it is nothing so unusual—it is | z | 2 | |||||
| 71-07-20V | NAS | LE | Audio | I wanted to see you earlier, but I was too busy so I couldn't come. What I want to talk about tonight is something—some idea or some | low level n | 2 | |||
| 71-07-21V | LE | Audio | We discussed already last night about what is something which we can experience or which we can understand, and what is something which | low lv n | 2 | ||||
| 71-07-22V | LE | Audio | This evening I want to explain about san-pachi-nenju. | low | 2 | ||||
| 71-07-24V | LE | Audio | This evening I want to talk about Buddhist practice. In one of the fascicle of Shōbōgenzō [Sansui-kyō] there—there is fascicle about virtue | low | 2 | ||||
| 71-07-25V | Audio | Tonight I want to explain the outline of our practice. … What I will talk about tonight is a kind of universal practice … which could be true | low | 2 | |||||
| 71-07-26V | LE | Audio | [The Blue Cliff Record, Case 61, FUKETSU'S "ONE PARTICLE OF DUST":] "Setting up the Dharma banner and establishing the Dharma teaching | low | 2 | ||||
| 71-07-29V | LE | Audio | As you know, at Tassajara Ryaku Fusatsu … may be observed as we observe it at Eihei-ji. I want to talk about Ryaku Fusatsu tonight. | low n | 2 | ||||
| 71-07-30V | LE | Audio | This evening we observed—this evening is called Fusatsu. As I explained last night, this ceremony actually started even before Buddha. | nn 2 is just end of 1 | 2 | ||||
| 71-08-00V | Audio | [Suzuki-rōshi dictating as he apparently translates an as-yet unidentified text:] "Therefore, no buddha attained enlightenment | w yvonne - but cut herhis early fewwords | 2 | |||||
| 71-08-01U | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | At the time of Yakusan—Yakusan Igen-daioshō—we—every morning we recite chant names of Buddha. Daikon Enō-daioshō.Daikon Enō | nnn | 2 | ||||
| 71-08-03V | LE | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | I want to explain why we become Buddhist [laughs] or why I myself became a Buddhist. | low muffled spedup on 2 espec | 2 | |||
| 71-08-04V | LE | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | Tomorrow is the Bodhidharma's Day. We will have—we have special ceremony this evening, and tomorrow also we will have special | low | 2 | |||
| 71-08-05V | LE | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | If you want to practice in its true sense so that you may not regret what you have been doing, it is necessary for you to—to have good | n low | 2 | |||
| 71-08-07V | LE | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | I want to discuss with you about, you know, how you study Zen. Zen is actually, in short, maybe, communication. | nn low | 2 | |||
| 71-08-08V | LE | Audio | Tonight I have nothing to talk about [laughs]. Empty hand. No book. I just appeared here [laughter]. But as Yakusan-zenji did, I wouldn't | very low volume | 2 | ||||
| 71-08-12V | * | LE | Audio | Tomorrow—tomorrow is the thirteenth, is it? In Japan tomorrow is … Obon. | n | 2 | |||
| 71-08-13V | LE | Audio | Last night, when we have question and answer, we came across the very important point. In the—in Japanese, we say | low | 2 | ||||
| 71-08-15V | LE | Audio | "When—when wind stops, flowers fall. When a bird sings, mountain become more calm." | nn | 2 | ||||
| 71-08-17V | LE | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | In—in my lecture, sometime I say everyone has buddha-nature, and whatever you do, that is, you know, Buddha's activity, I say. | 1 very low and 2 starts very low | 2 | |||
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| 71-08-21V | * | LE | Audio | talk & chants | Excuse me. [Laughs.] I feel rather stiff. Maybe I worked too hard. Since we have Tassajara and the city zendō, we are—our practice is | z | 2 | ||
| 71-10-09V | LE | Audio | [Suzuki-rōshi talking to his disciples about his illness.] | low | 2 | ||||
| 71-12-12-I | Cermny | funeral | s | ||||||
| 71-12-12-II | Cermny | funeral | |||||||
Random Notes pertaining to this page
Many errors remain for sure.
LA Box is lectures from Los Altos Marian Derby and Trudy Dixon used in the development of ZMBM (Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind).
P110 AND 113 OF ZMBM NOT FOUND IN Suzuki lectures – EMPTINESS and READINESS, MINDFULNESS - until earlier transcripts are found, these chapters are added to this archive.
* = Nothing Special selection --- The Nothing Special set of lectures were chosen by people who worked on Suzuki lectures and archive prior to 2004.
Gordon Geist in Norway did all the light edits currently on this page. The early ones for Wind Bells are mainly corrected, not edited. He had the original text Suzuki spoke from and fixed errors in quoting it and fixed some typos and spelling errors.