Shunryu Suzuki lectures on the Blue Cliff Records
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Blue Cliff Records-3: Baso's Sun-faced Buddha, Moon-faced Buddha 62-10-00 62-11-Sun-Faced-Buddhas-Moon-Faced-Buddhas.pdf 62-00-bc3-gg.pdf Suzuki Roshi read first from R. D. M. Shaw's translation of BCR1: ...
Blue Cliff Records-6, Ummon's Every Day Is A Good Day 62-11-00 62-12-Zen-Practice.pdf 62-11-bc6-gg.pdf Zen Practice: Each existence, animate and inanimate, is changing during every ...
Blue Cliff Records-14 & 15, Ummon Zenji 63-01-00 63-01-Um-mon-Zengi.pdf 63-01-bc14-15-gg.pdf First Question: A traveling monk asked Ummon Zengi: What is this first teaching? ...
Blue Cliff Records-18 63-02-13 63-02-13-bcr18-wb73.pdf 63-02-13-bc18-gg.pdf Commentary Nanyo Echu Kokushi was a famous disciple of the Sixth Patriarch, ...
Blue Cliff Records-19 63-03-00 63-02-Gutei-Lifting.pdf 63-03-bc19-gg.pdf COMMENTARY BY MASTER SHUNRYU SUZUKI ON MODEL SUBJECT 19 FROM THE "BLUE CLIFF ...
Blue Cliff Records-20 63-04-00 63-03-BCR19.pdf 63-04-bc20-gg.pdf Zen may be said to be the practice of cultivating our mind to make it deep and ... Wind Bell says "Model Subject #19"
Blue Cliff Records-25 63-07-00 63-05-BCR25.pdf 63-07-bc25-gg.pdf Introductory word: Engo introducing the subject said, "If a man comes to a ...
Blue Cliff Records-30, Joshu's Large Radishes 63-09-00 63-06-Jo-shu-Large-Radishes.pdf 63-09-bc30-gg.pdf There is no Introductory Word to Model Subject No. 30 from the Blue Cliff Records, ...
Blue Cliff Records-36, Chosha's Strolling about Mountains and Waters 63-11-00 63-07-BCR36.pdf 63-11-bc36-gg.pdf Attention! One day Cho-sha went for a walk. When he returned to the gate, the ...
Blue Cliff Records-40, Rikko's Heaven And Earth 63-12-00 63-08-Rikko-Heaven-Earth.pdf 63-12-bc40-gg.pdf Rikko is said to have lived from 764-834. He was a high official of the tang ...
Blue Cliff Records-46 64-02-00 64-01-BCR46.pdf 64-02-bc46-gg.pdf Attention! Kyosei asked a monk, "What is the sound outside the door?" The monk ...
Blue Cliff Records-49 64-03-00 64-02-BCR49.pdf 64-03-bc49-gg.pdf Sancho and "The Golden Scales" Escaping from the Net Introductory Word: Engo ... Part of some versions of this file are now in 64-03-00-B.
Blue Cliff Records-49 (Q&A) 64-03-00-B 64-02-BCR49-B.pdf QUESTION: Is it necessary to go through thunder and storm in order to attain ...
Blue Cliff Records-52, Joshu's Donkeys Cross, Horses Cross 64-04-00 64-03-BCR52.pdf 64-04-bc52-gg.pdf With an Introduction and Commentary by Reverend Suzuki, Master of Zen Center Introduction ...
Blue Cliff Records-53 64-05-00 64-04-BCR53.pdf 64-05-bc53-gg.pdf Introductory Word by Engo Introducing En-go said, "Obtaining the sole existing ...
Blue Cliff Records-51 64-06-00 64-05-BCR51.pdf 64-06-bc51-gg.pdf SEPPO'S "WHAT IS IT?" Seppo was a good example of a well-trained Zen Master. ...
Blue Cliff Records-73, Baso's Four Propositions 64-11-00 64-07-BCR73.pdf 64-11-bc73-gg.pdf Engo's Introductory Word Introducing, he said: The true preaching of Dharma ...
Blue Cliff Records-75 64-12-00 64-08-BCR75.pdf 64-12-bc75-gg.pdf [Prefatory Note by Shaw: The Ukyu of this subject was a disciple of Baso. Joshu ...
Blue Cliff Records-82, Dairyu's Immutable Law-Body 65-02-00 65-01-BCR82.pdf 65-02-bc82-gg.pdf [Prefatory Note by Shaw: Dai-ryu was the 'spiritual great-grandson' of Toku-san ... Prefatory note added from an earlier transcript, pf 1-10-2016.
Blue Cliff Records-84, Yuima's Law Gate To The One And Only 65-04-00 65-02-BCR84.pdf 65-04-bc84-gg.pdf YUIMA'S "THE DOCTRINE OF ATTAINING NON-DUALITY" This Model Subject is about ... Wind Bell titles this "Model Subject No. 94 from The Blue Cliff Records...YUI-MA'S 'THE DOCTRINE OP ATTAINING NON-DUALITY'"; however it is No. 84.
Blue Cliff Records-86, Ummon's Store-Room And Temple Gate - Commentary 65-07-00 65-06-BCR86-Commentary.pdf 65-07-bc86-gg.pdf Unmon Bunen (?-949) was a disciple of Seppo and founder of the Unmon School, ... pdf added 8-09
Blue Cliff Records-45 66-08-19-D 66-08-19-DV.pdf 66-04-Aug-Sesshin-Lectures.pdf 660819d66-04.pdf We have already a pretty good understanding of our practice because we have studied ... slow
Blue Cliff Records-43 69-07-26 69-07-26.pdf 69-07-26V.pdf A monk asked Tozan-- Zen Master Tozan-- can you hear me?-- “It is so hot,” ... creek. Q & A after lecture.
Blue Cliff Records-61, Fuketsu's One Particle Of Dust 71-07-26 71-07-26V.pdf v18-1-fuketsu-one-particle-of-dust.pdf 71-07-26LE.pdf Engo's Introduction Setting up the Dharma banner and establishing the Dharma ... low