Zen Mountain Center

a KQED film on Tassajara in the summer of 1968

RB = Richard Baker - SR = Shunryu Suzuki - DK = Dainin Katagiri - KC = Kobun Chino


YouTube page for this film - easier to use and view

These videos are on the YouTube cuke channel, YouTube ZMC playlist - easiest to watch there. Individual film links marked with 🎥 below are to download and play on your own device.

Transcript of the film


🎥 The entire film (424 Mb) (44:44)

🎥 Intro SF scenes - RB talking (:53)

🎥 Sokoji zendo zazen & Heart Sutra - SR, RB (4:45)

--------- 🎥 Heart Sutra only (4:05)

🎥 Sokoji to Tass zendo - SR, RB DK (12:26)

-------- 🎥 Sokoji office talking - SR, RB, DK (3:45)

-------- 🎥 Dainin Katagiri - in a few spots here in San Franscico

-------- 🎥 drive to Tassajara - SR, RB (6:27)

-------- 🎥 arrive Tass zendo - SR, RB (2:13)

🎥 Nature, bell, Tea - Kobun Chino on bell (2:34)

🎥 Discussion - Maud Oaks, SR, RB dining room porch (3:56) [Maud Oaks]

🎥 Working - SR, Dan Welch, Bill Shurtleff, Kobun Chino chanting eko (3:04)

-------- 🎥 Kobun Chino in this film

----------- 🎥 Suzuki working on stones with Dan and Bill

🎥 Hike to the Narrows- Ed Brown, Tim Buckley, Dan Welch, DC, and Niels Holm?* (1:59)

🎥 Bell - KC (:35)

🎥 Conversation - Peter Schneider and Brother David Steindl-Rast (7:36)

🎥 Tass scenes - RB talking (1:49)

🎥 Zendo finale - SR, RB (5:09)

-------------- 🎥 Suzuki talk (1:50)

Slide show from this film

Stills from the Film

Sokoji

On the way to Tassajara

Tassajara