Shunryu Suzuki Lecture Index
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Shunryu Suzuki Lecture Indexes by year. This page 1966.
1961-64------1965-------1967------1968-------1969------1970------1971 --- All lectures on one page
| V=verbatim transcript U=not verbatim W=notes I=interview X=forget it ZC-link to SFZC.org presentation of lecture |
Transcripts ZM=zmbm/ TD =Trudy Dixon's folder/ NAS=Not Always So/ SDK= Branching Streams/ * = Nothing Special selection |
AUDIO MP3s 16kbps SS talk=only S. Suzuki talking, Other audio deleted or, if whole or of any import saved to Other- B=Baker/E=end/chant=at first |
TITLES AND FIRST LINES to transcripts | n=tape noise, nn=more noise ns=slight noise z=audio exists transcript notes 8pt like this |
transcript collection year added 2=2002 etc |
| LECTURE FILE NAME | BOOKS Selections | Light Edits |
MP3 SS talk |
MP3 SS talk2 | Other not SS | TITLES AND FIRST LINES | DC NOTES audio 10pt print 8pt | Year New | |
| 66-00-00-BE | ZM-113 | 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 | TD | 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 | Audio | B-E-cmnt | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | n | |||||
| 66-01-22N | Audio | [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 | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | nn | 2 | |||||
| 66-03-26-BN | Audio | [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 | TD | 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 | Audio | [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 |