Shunryu Suzuki Lectures - More Edited Versions | ||||||||
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Zen Mind, Beginners Mind | Early Zen Center Transcript |
More Edited Transcript | Wind Bell Text |
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Corrected Wind Bell Text |
First Line of Original Transcript | Notes |
| Teacher and Disciple | 61-12-00-wb.pdf | v13-teacher-and-disciple.pdf | Emptiness does not mean annihilation; it means selfless original enlightenment ...… | see 62-03-00 for an excerpt | ||||
| True Zen | 62-01-00-wb.pdf | 62-02-True-Zen.pdf | If you want to meditate you must have instruction of right teacher, especially ...… | also 01to09 in one file | ||||
| What is Zen? | 62-02-00-wb.pdf | 62-03-What-Is-Zen.pdf | To study Zen is to particularize the Essence of Mind which is transmitted from ...… | |||||
| Square Zen | 62-03-00-wb.pdf | 62-04-Square-Zen.pdf | The idea of emptiness does not mean annihilation. It means selfless original ...… | see 61-12-00. This is an abbreviated version. | ||||
| A Buddha Story | 62-04-00-wb.pdf | 62-05-Buddha-Story.pdf | In an old scripture told by Buddha there are four lands, two of which are Hokkuroshu ...… | |||||
| What is the Law | 62-05-00-wb.pdf | 62-06-What-Is-Law.pdf | One day the World Honored one mounted the pulpit, and the first principle was ...… | |||||
| On Zazen and the Shinsanshiki Ceremony | 62-06-00-wb.pdf | 62-07-On-Zazen_Shinsanshiki-Ceremony.pdf | ON ZAZEN While you do zazen you will come to understand yourself completely ...… | 1 and 2 on same file | ||||
| On Obon | 62-07-00-wb.pdf | 62-08-On-Obon.pdf | Originality and universality are the same thing for a sincere student. Universal ...… | |||||
| To Tame a Tiger / Zazen's Scripture | 62-08-00-wb.pdf | 62-09-To-Tame-Tiger.pdf | TO TAME A TIGER A government official named Shiba visited Hyabujo Mountain ...… | |||||
| Bodhidharma's Zen | 62-09-00-wb.pdf | 62-10-Bodhidharma-Zen.pdf | The Emperor Wu built many temples, translated many scriptures, and encouraged ...… | |||||
| Blue Cliff Records-3: Baso's Sun-faced Buddha, Moon-faced Buddha | 62-10-00-wb.pdf | 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 | 62-12-Zen-Practice.pdf | 62-11-bc6-gg.pdf | Zen Practice: Each existence, animate and inanimate, is changing during every ...… | |||||
| Religious Activity | 62-12-00-wb.pdf | 67-01-reprint.pdf | 62-12-RELIGIOUS_ACTIVITY-gg.pdf | The more we attempt to manage religious activity, the more we lose our fundamental ...… | ||||
| Blue Cliff Records-14 & 15, Ummon Zenji | 63-01-00-wb.pdf | 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-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-wb.pdf | 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-wb.pdf | 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-wb.pdf | 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-wb.pdf | 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-wb.pdf | 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-wb.pdf | 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-wb.pdf | 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-wb.pdf | 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) | 64-02-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-wb.pdf | 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-wb.pdf | 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-wb.pdf | 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. ...… | ||||
| The Traditional Way, Summary of Shunryu Suzuki's Sesshin Lectures | 64-06-Sesshin-Lectures-Summary.pdf | 64-08-dixon-gg.pdf | To understand what the "Traditional Way" of Buddhism is, and to actualize it ...… | Wind Bell summary from notes. | ||||
| Blue Cliff Records-73, Baso's Four Propositions | 64-11-00-wb.pdf | 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-wb.pdf | 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-wb.pdf | 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-wb.pdf | 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. | |||
| Brief summary From Sesshin Lectures Wind Bell 65-05 | 65-05-Brief-Summary.pdf | This year, Reverend Suzuki's lectures (given twice daily Monday through Friday) ...… | ||||||
| Blue Cliff Records-86, Ummon's Store-Room And Temple Gate - Commentary | 65-07-00-wb.pdf | 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 | |||
| Great Prajna Paramita Sutra | ← click title | I want to still continue to speak about topsy-turvy views. When your understanding ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Great Prajna Paramita Sutra | ← click title | This morning I want to explain the attainment -- the attainment here -- it means ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| “wisdom seeks for wisdom” | ← click title | We are studying now the sutra of the sixth patriarch, in the evening lecture, ...… | Section added 10/22/2021 from SDH transcription. Newly available in 2020 from the original tape reel, this audio recording was previously lost from the archives, with only the 1960’s transcript surviving. [Los Altos] | |||||
| On the Great Prajna Paramita Sutra | ← click title | I want to give the conclusion to this Prajna Paramita Sutra this morning. In ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Posture | ← click title | I want to explain about our posture we take. When you sit left foot is on your ...… | Los Altos box title: Lecture on Posture | |||||
| Nirvana, the Waterfall | ← click title | If you go to Japan and visit Eiheiji monastery -- before you enter the monastery ...… | Los Altos box title: Water | |||||
| Calmness | ← click title | In Zen poem it says, “after the wind—wind has—after the wind stop, I see the ...… | Los Altos box title: Treasure of Life. Engage Wisdom writes, "Newly imported in 2020 from the original tape reel, this audio recording was previously lost from the archives, with only the 1960’s transcript surviving." | |||||
| Confucius said the most visible is something invisible | 65-06-Sesshin-Lecture.pdf | Tape operator: This is the beginning of the-- it will be that we missed this ...… | traffic. Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| Study Yourself | ← click title | The purpose of studying Buddhism is—is not to—to study Buddhism, but to study ...… | Los Altos box title: Forgetting Ourselves. Engage Wisdom writes, "Newly imported in 2020 from the original tape reel, this audio recording was previously lost from the archives, with only the 1960’s transcript surviving." | |||||
| Transiency | ← click title | The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency or change. Everything ...… | Los Altos box title: Change. Changed "transcendence" to "transiency" 8-3-2020, dc. | |||||
| Experience, Not Philosophy | ← click title | I am so glad to see you again. For two weeks I studied many things and I found ...… | Los Altos box title: Zen Experience | |||||
| Nothing Special | ← click title | I don’t feel to speak after zazen. I feel the practice of zazen is enough but ...… | was dated wrong as 16 [14=thurs] [Los Altos] | |||||
| It is a great joy to practice sesshin with you in this way | 65-10-16.AU.pdf | 65-07-Oct-Sesshin-A.pdf | It is a great joy to practice sesshin with you in this way. I think this is quite ...… | |||||
| We have finished sesshin with unusual results | 65-10-16-BU.pdf | 65-07-Oct-Sesshin-B.pdf | We have finished sesshin with unusual results. We have practiced in our own way ...… | |||||
| kinhin instruction | 65-07-kinhin.pdf | Suzuki, Roshi, continued the morning instruction by explaining the importance and ...… | Included with October 1965 Sesshin Lectures in Wind Bell Vol. 4 No. 7. | |||||
| in Buddhism there are many schools | ← click title | As you know, in Buddhism there are many schools. But you can classify Buddhism ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| in Hinayana practice, in the first stage | ← click title | In the past, in Hinayana practice in the first stage we still have consistent ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Buddhism is very philosophical, and sometimes intellectual and logical | 65-11-00-AU.pdf | 66-01-Nov-Sesshin-A.pdf | Buddhism is very philosophical, and sometimes intellectual and logical. It is ...… | |||||
| you have made great progress | 65-11-00-BU.pdf | 66-01-Nov-Sesshin-B.pdf | Almost all of you have not practiced Zen so long, but I think you have made great ...… | |||||
| Breathing | ← click title | When we practice our mind always follow our breathing. When we inhale, the ...… | Los Altos box title: Swinging Door | |||||
| Beginner's Mind | ← click title | 67-02-04-Beginners-Mind.pdf | People say to study Zen is difficult, in what way—but there is some misunderstanding ...… | Was 11-10 but 11-11 = thurs. Engage Wisdom writes, "Newly imported in 2020 from the original tape reel, this audio recording was previously lost from the archives, with only the 1960’s transcript surviving." [Los Altos] | ||||
| Mind Weeds | ← click title | When you get up early in the morning by alarm, I think you don’t feel so well. ...… | Los Altos box title: Self-Nourishment. Was 11-17 but 11-18 = thurs | |||||
| Bowing | ← click title | [After demonstration of Buddhist bow] To bow is very important-- one of the ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| The Middle Way | ← click title | Here we recite the sutra just once but in Zen Center we recite three times. The ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Most of you are beginners | 65-12-11-AU.pdf | 66-03-Dec-Sesshin-Lectures.pdf | Most of you are beginners, so it may be rather difficult why we practice zazen ...… | Intro from above moved here. Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Buddhism has many annual layers like a big tree | 66-03-Dec-Sesshin-Evening.pdf | Buddhism has many annual year layers like big trees. And traditionally we respect ...… | ||||||
| Single-Minded Way | ← click title | 66-02-Morning-Talk.pdf | The purpose of my talk is not to give you some intellectual understanding but ...… | Los Altos box title: Railway Track | ||||
| Limiting Your Activity | ← click title | In our practice we have no special object of worship. If so, our practice is ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Believing in Nothing | ← click title | I found out that it is necessary -- absolutely necessary to believe in nothing. ...… | Los Altos box title: Nothing | |||||
| Readiness, Mindfulness | ← click title | In the Prajna Paramita Sutra the most important point, of course, is the idea ...… | From p. 113 of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. (Can’t find other version) [Los Altos] | |||||
| Emptiness | ← click title | If you want to understand Buddhism it is necessary for you to forget all about ...… | From p. 110 of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. (Can’t find other version) [Los Altos] | |||||
| Attachment, Nonattachment | ← click title | Already we feel night become shorter and shorter when I come here. Dogen Zenji ...… | Los Altos box title: The Double Moon | |||||
| Buddhism is, maybe, rather difficult to understand | ← click title | Buddhism is, maybe, rather difficult to understand for you because Buddhism is ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| The Quality of Being | ← click title | The purpose of zazen is to attain the freedom of our being, physically and mentally. ...… | Los Altos box title: Flashing | |||||
| The Marrow of Zen | ← click title | 67-01-Jan-66-Los-Altos.pdf | In our scripture it is said that there are four kinds of horse -- an excellent ...… | Los Altos box title: Horse Sense | ||||
| Summary of some Suzuki lectures from the spring | 66-02-Lectures-Summary.pdf | Zen Center is not a group of people setting themselves apart from society, each ...… | ||||||
| Repetition | ← click title | In India there were many schools. We count major school -- we count six major ...… | Los Altos box title: Bread | |||||
| Constancy | ← click title | The message for us for today was ‘cultivate your own spirit’. It says there on ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Zen and Excitement | ← click title | My master passed away when I was thirty three. So after his death I became pretty ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| God Giving | ← click title | The precept today is giving, the joy of giving. Everything is something which ...… | Los Altos box title: The Joy of Giving | |||||
| Genjo Koan, 1–3 | 660313av37-1.pdf | v37-1-lec-on-genjo-koan.pdf | Good morning. This lecture is for advanced student in his practice, but I think ...… | weird testing sounds brief at 2:20 | ||||
| The Way-Seeking Mind | 66-03-26-AU.pdf | 66-02-Sesshin-Lecture.pdf | When we feel the evanescence of life, or when we have problem for ourselves, ...… | (Sound problem.) | ||||
| Sesshin Lecture: Genjo Koan, Paragraphs 1–2 | 660525v36-2.pdf | 66-03-Dec-Sesshin-Evening.pdf | The secret of all the teaching of Buddhism is how to live on each moment. Moment ...… | |||||
| Moment after moment we have to obtain absolute freedom | 66-06-00U.pdf | 66-03-Dec-Sesshin-Evening2.pdf | [The following section is compiled from Shunryu Suzuki's sesshin and Sunday lectures ...… | 66-06-00 - was so named because of Wind Bell date - probably late 65. | ||||
| Genjo Koan: Paragraphs 11-13 | 660619dv38-1.pdf | v38-1-genjo-koan-para-11-13.pdf | When the truth does not fill our body and mind, we think that-- we think that ...… | low | ||||
| No Trace | ← click title | When we sit in this way our mind is calm and quite simple. But usually our mind ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Blue Cliff Records-45 | 660819d66-04.pdf | 66-04-Aug-Sesshin-Lectures.pdf | We have already a pretty good understanding of our practice because we have studied ...… | slow | ||||
| Beyond Consciousness | ← click title | We should establish our practice where there is no practice or no enlightenment. ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Buddha's Enlightenment | ← click title | I am very glad to be here the day Buddha was born -- when Buddha attained enlightenment ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Traditional Zen Spirit | ← click title | In our practice the important thing is our physical posture we take, and ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Mind Waves | ← click title | Don’t try to stop the thinking when you are practicing zazen. Let it stop. If ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Communication | ← click title | As I cannot speak your language so well that I find some way to communicate with ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Epilogue: Some Personal Reflections | ← click title | EPILOGUE: I am so glad to see you again. Although I have only been gone two weeks, ...… | This draft chapter was replaced in the published version. [Probably San Francisco] | |||||
| Control | ← click title | To live in the realm of Buddha Nature means to die as a small being, moment after ...… | Changed "his policy is not so easy" to "this policy is not so easy" 10-14-2016, DC. [Los Altos] | |||||
| Original Buddhism | ← click title | Zazen is not one of the four activities: to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie down,, ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Mistakes in Practice | ← click title | There may be various kinds of practice, or ways of practice, or understanding ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Right Effort | ← click title | The most important point in our practice is to have right effort. The right effort ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Naturalness | ← click title | There is big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who ...… | Changed "mu" to "u" as in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. (U is being and Mu is non-being) 12-15-2021. [Los Altos] | |||||
| Introduce to you Kobun Chino Sensei | ← click title | I am so grateful to introduce to you Kobun Chino, sensei. He was appointed to ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Opposites | ← click title | Tonight, perhaps I was supposed to explain the chapter in the Platform Sutra ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| long time since I saw you all | ← click title | It is a pretty long time since I saw you all. But if we sit with you in this ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Suzuki Roshi Writes on the Practice Period | 67-02-04-Practice-Period.pdf | Through the practice period Buddha's way will be known in America. The practice ...… | ||||||
| truly involved with the development of our way | 67-02-04-Poem.pdf | If you are truly involved with the development of our way, there will be no ...… | 8/1/1967 | |||||
| "The mind itself is Buddha" | 67-08-14U.pdf | Our study will be concentrated for a while on the statement: “The mind itself ...… | ||||||
| when you have a new experience | 67-08-02U.pdf | …called gyo, or practice. This kind of process will be understood. So, when some ...… | A handwritten note on a Green Gulch copy says that date might be 8/19/67, and typed at the top says "Tassajara: week-sesshin ending the first training period, August, 1967." | |||||
| Genjo Koan | 67-08-20U.pdf | v39-2-on-genjo-koan.pdf | Our understanding will be four: one is form is emptiness, and emptiness is form, ...… | |||||
| Genjo Koan No. 2 [1?] | 67-08-21U.pdf | Every day we work to support our activity. There will be a slight difference ...… | Suzuki is commenting on paragraphs 6 and 9–11 of Genjō-kōan. | |||||
| Buddhism Is Not a Special Teaching; Enlightenment Is Not a Particular Stage | 67-08-23U.pdf | v40-1-budd-not-special-teach-genjo-koan.pdf | Buddhism is not any special teaching, and enlightenment is not any particular ...… | |||||
| Genjo Koan No. 4 | 67-08-24-AU.pdf | … She was a part of the world, and whatever she said from top of the mountain, ...… | Edited by Brian Fikes | |||||
| Reflections on the Prajna Paramita Sutra | 67-02-04-Sesshin-Lecture.pdf | Starting from the understanding of form and emptiness, and emptiness is form, ...… | ||||||
| To Polish a Tile | ← click title | Zen story or Zen koan is very difficult to understand before you understand what ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Zen is also Buddhism | 67-09-00-A.pdf | Student: Please come up front if you'd like. SR: Yeah, please come nearer. ...… | cut few words at first adjust mic - 1 mn ?. Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| Using Various Stones | 67-09-08-BU.pdf | v29-1-using-various-stones.pdf | Tonight I want to give you some correct idea of Buddhism or Zen. In a word, Zen ...… | crickets. Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| First Shuso | 67-02-04-First-Shuso.pdf | Each practice period we appoint a Shuso to be head of training and leader of the ...… | See page 15 in the Fall 1967 Wind Bell. | |||||
| Negative and Positive | ← click title | The more you understand our thinking, the more you find it difficult to talk ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| No Dualism | ← click title | We say our practice without gaining idea, practice without expecting even enlightenment, ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| putting power in your hara | 67-12-01-A.pdf | In this sesshin, as I said this morning, our practice will be concentrated on ...… | bad audio fixed. Changed "Keep from meaning," to "Keep from measuring" 11-29-2021, dc. | |||||
| true practice | 67-12-01-B.pdf | This afternoon, in my lecture I told you why we should practice zazen and what ...… | creek | |||||
| inner power of practice | 67-12-02.pdf | Our inner power of practice will appear according to the situation and accor- ...… | speeds up wrong audio fixed | |||||
| The Gift of Zazen | ← click title | v36-1-gift-zazen.pdf | It’s been a pretty long time since I saw you. I am still studying hard to find ...… | [Los Altos] | ||||
| become more honest and direct | srl-excerpt-kishizawa.html | SR: Once more, I think, I—I hope people will become honest and more direct, you ...… | spedup a bit (Sound problem.)] Q & A after lecture. Changed "ichi" to "ishi", "fumioro" to "fumioru", "Ko suzume" to "Kosuzume", "fundeitta" to "fundeita"- thanks Fred and Takayo Harriman. | |||||
| Four Wives | ← click title | In (Agoma?) Sutra there is a funny story. A man who had -- There was a man who ...… | [Los Altos] | |||||
| Lotus Sūtra No. I-1 | 68-02-00-A.pdf | During Sesshin the Lotus Sutra will not be appropriate for the lecture, but I ...… | sped a little? | |||||
| Lotus Sūtra No. I-2 | 68-02-00-B.pdf | A ray issued from Buddha's forehead between eyebrow. Everyone could see many ...… | sped up at end - join 1n2 for t-B not like A. | |||||
| Lotus Sūtra No. I-3 | 68-02-00-C.pdf | Maitreya asked Manjusri what is going to happen, and Maitreya—Manjusri started ...… | ||||||
| Lotus Sūtra No. I-4 | 68-02-00-D.pdf | "Now, young men of good family, long before the time of Tathagata Kandrasuryapradipa, ...… | ||||||
| Lotus Sūtra No. I-5 | 68-02-00-E.pdf | Manjusri again is answering Maitreya, telling him what he has seen. He is so ...… | ||||||
| Lotus Sūtra No. I-6 | 68-02-00-F.pdf | "The monks and nuns at the time being, who strove after supreme, highest enlightenment, ...… | level problems with some of these 00s. DC added last section to transcript, starting at "Bill Shurtleff" 10-31-2015. Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| Shosan Ceremony | 68-09-00U.pdf | SR: On this occasion, if you have some—a question, comment, present it to me. Student ...… | Date changed from Fall '68 to Feb. '68, 5-26-2022, sdh. This transcript now includes 68-02-00-G which was previously listed as a separate fragment. | |||||
| Shosan Ceremony | 68-04-23-B.pdf | A monk asked Hyakujo: “Is there some special things happen-- happened in this ...… | ||||||
| Statement at end of Sesshin | 68-04-23-C-DCE.pdf | In spite of my lack of effort, you fulfilled this training period very well. ...… | "Katherine" was replaced with "Katzuzen," shuso, head monk, Phillip Wilson's Zen name. - DC 12/16/2014 | |||||
| Talk at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco | Grace-Cathedral.htm | GRACE CATHEDRAL — Zen Buddhism had its debut at Grace Cathedral to a congregation ...… | See this page for a scan of the article and notes. Actual date found in Della Goertz' notebook. | |||||
| Esalen Institute, Second Lecture: Observing the Precepts | v31-2-observing-precepts.pdf | Last night I talked about construction of teaching and our practice in one word ...… | Esalen Institute: Second of two lectures. | |||||
| comments | 68-03-04-comments.pdf | Wind Bell 68-03-04 and Shunryu Suzuki comments from visit of Soen Nakagawa, Hakuun ...… | ||||||
| To have complete understanding of our school | 680724-68-03-04.pdf | 68-03-04-July-Lecture.pdf | To have complete understanding of our school or-- is at the same time-- to unders- ...… | crickets. Q & A after lecture. Changed date given, sdh. | ||||
| Shikantaza, Tenryu's One Finger | 68-10-12-A.pdf | I want to explain our way-- our way of zazen. Do you know-- you know the famous ...… | Footnotes restored 11/11/2020. | |||||
| The True Dragon | 68-10-12-B.pdf | v25-1-true-dragon.pdf | [Laughs.] This? [Probably an aside to tape operator.] Dogen Zenji says, ...… | |||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-1 | 68-10-20U.pdf | 69-03-04-Lotus-Sutra.pdf | This sutra titled Saddharmapundarika Sutra was supposed to be told by Buddha, ...… | |||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-2 | 68-10-21U.pdf | 69-03-04-Lotus-Sutra.pdf | [The Lotus Sutra] -- which was [not] told by a historical Buddha. But some people ...… | |||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-3 | 68-10-00-BU.pdf | 69-03-04-Lotus-Sutra.pdf | I already explained nature of Nirmanakaya Buddha and Sambhogakaya Buddha. The ...… | Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-4 | 68-10-00-CU.pdf | 69-03-04-Lotus-Sutra.pdf | The point—point of my previous lecture is—because it may be difficult for you ...… | Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-5 | 68-10-00-DU.pdf | What is told in this sutra is view of the Dharmakaya world, view of the world ...… | Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-7 | 68-10-00-FU.pdf | Yesterday I told you about Ajnata-Kaundinya [repeats different pronunciations], ...… | little higher voice. Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-8 | 68-10-00-GU.pdf | Buddha's disciples were very good people, generous and honest and sincere, but ...… | Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-10 | 68-10-00-IU.pdf | As Zen Buddhists, it is necessary for us to understand the Second Patriarch Mahakashapa. ...… | ||||||
| SHOSAN CEREMONY | 68-11-11.pdf | [If you want to know what buddha-nature is] -- which is not possible to know ...… | 1long endpause | |||||
| Sun-Faced Buddha, Moon-Faced Buddha | 70-71-03-04-When-I-Die.pdf | I am glad to see you from here [laughs]. My organ [?] may not be so good yet, ...… | ||||||
| Find Out for Yourself | v29-2-finding-your-own-way.pdf | In your zazen, perhaps you will have many difficulties or problems. But when ...… | Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| Our practice should be based on the idea of selflessness | 69-03-16.pdf | Our practice should be based on the idea of selflessness. This selflessness is ...… | ||||||
| Ordinary Mind, Buddha Mind | v32-2-both-buddha-and-ordianry.pdf | [The point of] -- my talk is just to give you some help in your practice. So ...… | ||||||
| The Only Desire That Is Complete Is Buddha's Desire | 69-04-08.pdf | v27-2-only-desire-buddha-desire.pdf | [Recently] I was talking about denial of, you know, desires. This is very confusing, ...… | loud. Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Zen is not something to talk [about], and also it is something to talk [about] | 69-04-19.pdf | SR: [Whispers 1-2 sentences in Japanese, presumably to Ryogen Sensei who has ...… | suzuki comes in at 20 after Yoshimura? | |||||
| Suzuki's 65th Birthday | 69-05-18.pdf | I don't know what to say. I am already 65 years old. Today I became 65. And I ...… | Changed "suzoka" to "susoku" 11-22-2021 dc. | |||||
| Yakusan did not give lectures for a long time | 69-06-00.pdf | A famous Chinese Zen master, Yakusan, did not give lectures for a long time. ...… | ||||||
| How should we establish our system of practice in San Francisco | 69-06-17.pdf | -- Just to-- just to practice zazen, you know, will not be perfect enough. So ...… | Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| It is rather difficult for us to figure out why we started to practice zazen | 69-07-01.pdf | It is rather difficult for us to figure out why we started to practice zazen. ...… | flange sound | |||||
| practice should be the practice of “right now.” | 69-07-03.pdf | I have explained the poem about “Emptiness is form,” or shochuhen. Sho is reality ...… | creek level low | |||||
| Question And Answer Session | 69-07-08.pdf | v26-1-questions-answers.pdf | SR: Tonight I have nothing special which I want to talk [about]. Of course, ...… | |||||
| Eulogy For Trudy Dixon Given During Her Funeral Ceremony | 69-07-11.pdf | 69-07-11-trudy-eulogy.pdf | Go, my disciple Sesshin Baiho [?]. You have completed your practice for this ...… | |||||
| I have nothing in my mind | 69-07-15.pdf | Again, I have nothing in my mind [laughs, laughter]. I think I want you to hit ...… | ||||||
| Blue Cliff Records-43 | 69-07-26.pdf | A monk asked Tozan-- Zen Master Tozan-- can you hear me?-- “It is so hot,” ...… | creek. Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| To Actually Practice Selflessness | 69-08-06.pdf | v42-practice-selflessness.pdf | I think you are facing actual problem in your zazen practice. The worst one may ...… | loud | ||||
| Questions And Answers | 69-08-28.pdf | 70-01-Aug-69-Lecture.pdf | SR: I want you to ask me a question. [Laughs.] I have nothing in my mind to ...… | |||||
| Wherever You Are, Enlightenment Is There | v20-2-i-dont-know-zazen.pdf | In our practice, the most important thing [is] to-- to know-- to know. “To know” ...… | speedsup | |||||
| Sesshin, Third Night Lecture | 69-09-00-C.pdf | We are talking about our practice. What is the practice, and what is enlightenment, ...… | loud speedsup. Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| Sesshin, Sixth Night Lecture | 69-09-00-D.pdf | We discussed about the question and answer between the Seventeenth Patriarch ...… | crickets | |||||
| Pure Silk, Sharp Iron | v26-2-sharp-iron-pure-silk.pdf | Sunday school-- a Sunday-school girl saw me in sitting, and she said: “I can ...… | ||||||
| Why I Came to America | 69-09-16.pdf | v38-2-why-i-came-to-amer.pdf | I have not much chance to think about why I came to America or why I became a ...… | loud. Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Epilogue: Zen Mind | 69-11-16.pdf | This morning, I want to talk about our practice. And here in America, something ...… | In the Zen Mind chapter of the book some text also came from 65-07-29-A, 65-07-30-B, 67-03-00 and 69-11-22. | |||||
| Opening Lecture At Page Street Zendo: American Precepts | 69-11-22.pdf | v21-1-american-precepts.pdf | I am so grateful with you to have chance to practice zazen in this, maybe, magnificent ...… | |||||
| Way-Seeking Mind, Part I | 69-11-29.pdf | -- mind. Without this way-seeking mind, our practice does not work. We say “just ...… | ||||||
| Way-Seeking Mind, Part II | 69-11-30.pdf | I think nowadays way-seeking mind is understood like something to do good in ...… | ||||||
| Way-Seeking Mind, Part III | 69-12-01.pdf | Our way-seeking mind is buddha-mind. And our practice is-- makes sense when you ...… | creek | |||||
| Practice Should Not Be Perfect, So Descendants Have Something To Do | 69-12-02.pdf | To accomplish something is difficult. And, you know, the difficulty you have ...… | ||||||
| Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 5 | 69-12-03.pdf | I explained briefly about bodhisattva mind. And we have also bodhisattva practice-- ...… | little sped? | |||||
| Fundamental Buddhist Point: To Adjust Ourselves To Our Surroundings | 69-12-21-A.pdf | Since I moved in this building, people ask me how do you feel [laughs]. But ...… | loud -audio no A or B | |||||
| Respect for Things | 70-71-03-04-City-Practice.pdf | In our zazen practice, we stop our thinking and we must be free from our emotional ...… | ||||||
| Caring for the Soil | 70-02-Jan-Lecture.pdf | The difference between so-called-it Theravada Buddhism and Sarvastivadian or ...… | ||||||
| our effort in our practice | 70-01-31.pdf | Our-- our effort in our practice is quite different effort you make in our usual ...… | mic bumping sound | |||||
| The Background of Shikantaza | 70-02-22.pdf | I think most of you participate one-week sesshin from tomorrow. So far, we have ...… | Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| Selflessness, Being and Non-Being: The Background of Shikantaza | 70-02-23.pdf | In this sesshin I suggested to practice shikantaza. For-- anyway for beginner, ...… | ||||||
| Non-Dualistic Practice | 70-02-25.pdf | Yesterday I talked about how to, maybe-- two ways of practice: one is zazen ...… | ||||||
| Practice To Be Like A Stone | 70-02-28.pdf | Before we sit, six-day sesshin was too long. But after we completed, it was too ...… | lots of chanting at end saved off on t | |||||
| Lecture To Prof. Lewis R. Lancaster's Visiting Class | 700301v34-2a.pdf | v34-2a-lec-to-l-lancaster-class.pdf | Actually, because of my bad throat, I don't speak for people outside, you know. ...… | Yvonne and Silas-only this file lower kbps. Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Our Everyday Life Is Like A Movie | v32-1-everyday-life-like-movie.pdf | I think most of you are rather curious about what is Zen. But Zen is actually ...… | ||||||
| Way-Seeking Mind | 70-03-28.pdf | Way-seeking mind is the most important. This kind of chance is-- usually in some ...… | ||||||
| The Zen of Going to the Rest Room | v27-1-zazen-like-going-rest-room.pdf | How do you feel now? [Laughs.] Excuse me. I thought of funny thing right now ...… | loud | |||||
| Buddha's Birthday Lecture | 70-04-12.pdf | The April-- April the eighth is the day we celebrate Buddha's birthday in China ...… | ||||||
| On Breathing | 70-05-02-A.pdf | Right now you-- your feeling has changed from the feeling you had in your sitting. ...… | ||||||
| Helping Others | 70-05-02-B.pdf | First of all, a sincere-- our practice-- sincere practice-- our sincere practice ...… | ||||||
| Sincere Practice and Way-Seeking Mind | 70-05-03.pdf | To have-- to have sincere practice means to have sincere concern with people. ...… | ||||||
| Zen Center and City Practice | v39-1-on-zc-city-practice.pdf | This morning I want to reflect on our long, long practice, which we started maybe ...… | creek? | |||||
| How To Observe Precepts | 70-05-17.pdf | v17-2-how-to-observe-precepts.pdf | This morning I want to talk about Zen-- Zen precepts. As you know, precepts is ...… | |||||
| Money And Labor | 70-05-24.pdf | 70-05-24-On-Money.pdf | Good morning. Actually this morning I asked Yoshida Roshi to give some talk to ...… | traffic | ||||
| Things-As-It-Is | 70-05-27.pdf | 73-00-Sandokai-01.pdf | I am so grateful to have chance to discuss about or to talk about Sandokai. This ...… | reb intro says may25. Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Warm Hand to Warm Hand | 70-05-30.pdf | v13-1-2-74-2nd-sandokai-lec.pdf | Line 2 was handed down closely from west to east. Line 3 People may ...… | Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Buddha Is Always Here | 70-06-01.pdf | v14-sandokai-lec-no3.pdf | Line 5 The true source is pure and stainless. Line 6 The branch ...… | |||||
| The Blue Jay Will Come Right into Your Heart | 70-06-03.pdf | v15-sandokai-lec-no4.pdf | Line 9 The five sense gates and the five sense objects Line 10 ...… | Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| We Are Just a Tiny Speck of Big Being | 70-06-06.pdf | v24-1-gen-spirit-sandokai.pdf | Purpose of study of Buddhism is to have perfect understanding of things, and ...… | Lecture to Professor Weller's Visiting Class with chants at end. Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Today We May Be Very Happy | 70-06-10.pdf | v16-sandokai-lec-no5.pdf | Things have various natures, various forms. There is good and bad, taste, sound, ...… | Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| The Boat Is Always Moving | 70-06-13.pdf | v19-1-sandokai-lec-no6-70.pdf | Line 17 The four elements resume their nature Line 18 as a child ...… | Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Without Any Idea of Attainment | 70-06-17.pdf | v19-2-85-sandokai-lec-no8.pdf | Line 21 For eyes there is color and form, for ears there is sound, Line ...… | Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Within Light There Is Utter Darkness | 70-06-20.pdf | v21-2-sandokai-lec-no9.pdf | Sandokai Lecture IX Saturday, June 20, 1970 Tassajara [The following lines ...… | Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| The Willow Tree Cannot Be Broken | 70-06-25.pdf | v22-1-sandokai-lec-no10.pdf | Darkness and brightness stand with each other like when one foot is forward ...… | Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Suffering Is a Valuable Thing | 70-06-27.pdf | v22-2-sandokai-lec-no11.pdf | Line 33 Everything––all beings––have their own virtue. Line 34 You should ...… | |||||
| A Short Talk During Zazen | 70-06-28U.pdf | v33-2-short-zazen-talk.pdf | You should sit zazen with your whole body; your spine, mouth, toes, mudra. Check ...… | |||||
| We Should Not Stick to Words or Rules Too Much | 70-07-04.pdf | v23-1-sandolai-lec-not-always-so.pdf | If you listen to the words, you should understand the source of the teaching. ...… | Wind Bell title: "It Is Not Always So" Sandokai Lecture No. 12 | ||||
| Do Not Pass Your Days and Nights in Vain | 70-07-06.pdf | v23-2-dont-spend-time-in-vain.pdf | The goal is neither far nor near. If you stick to the idea of good or bad, you ...… | Q & A after lecture. Changed "Student A" to "Craig (Boyan)" 10-13-2022. | ||||
| Eko Lecture 1 | 70-07-08.pdf | Morning Service Buddha Hall Sutra Line 1. May Buddha observe [see?] us, and ...… | Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| Eko Lecture 2 | 70-07-10.pdf | Dedication for the Morning Service Arhat's Sutra Line 1. May Buddha observe ...… | very low at end. Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| Eko Lecture 3 | 70-07-11.pdf | Dedication for the Morning Service Arhat's Sutra Line 1. May Buddha observe ...… | ||||||
| Supported from Within | 70-07-12.pdf | Dedication for the Morning Service Arhat's Sutra Line 1. May Buddha observe ...… | ||||||
| Eko Lecture 5 | 70-07-13.pdf | Morning Service Patriarch Hall Sutra Line 1. May Buddha observe us and may ...… | ||||||
| Eko Lecture 6 | 70-07-15.pdf | The Fourth Morning Eko Wednesday, July 15, 1970 Tassajara [This is the last ...… | Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| Japanese Way, American Way, Buddhist Way | 70-07-19.pdf | After-- after forty days of my leaving from here I feel I am a stranger to the ...… | ||||||
| Mudra Practice and How to Accept Instructions from Various Teachers | 70-07-26.pdf | This morning, I want to talk about our practice, as usual [laughs], as-- especially ...… | trfc | |||||
| How To Understand Rituals And Precepts | 70-07-28.pdf | v34-2-zazen-ritual-precepts-not-separated.pdf | This evening I want to talk about some problems you have when you come to Zen ...… | |||||
| observation of precepts and practice of zazen is same thing | 70-08-01.pdf | In this sesshin, I have been explaining the context of our practice and, at the ...… | ||||||
| To Be Honest And Sincere In Its True Sense It Is Necessary to Push Yourself Into Some Very Strong Hard Rule | 70-08-16-B.pdf | The meaning of our practice [is compassion?] way of life-- way of life, or your ...… | see above [No verbatim transcript available. (Sound problem.)] | |||||
| Lay Ordination Ceremony | 70-08-23.pdf | 70-71-03-04-Lay-Ordination.pdf | -- and obtain similar to result according to [1 word unclear] like our [1-2] ...… | (Sound problem.) | ||||
| city practice comments | 70-71-03-04-Excerpts.pdf | When I say it is difficult to practice in such a beautiful building with a completely ...… | Probably given sometime in 1970 before August when Suzuki left for Japan. | |||||
| Japan Now: Zazen As Our Foundation | 70-12-13.pdf | In this trip, I studied in Japan [laughs], you know, and I found out many things, ...… | ||||||
| What Is Self? What Is Our Practice? | 70-12-20.pdf | In my last trip to Japan I found out many things. The feeling I had there was-- ...… | ||||||
| Han (sounding board) | 72-00-Sounding-Board.pdf | Listen well everyone Great is the problem of Life and Death No forever gone ...… | From Wind Bell, Volume XI, 1972 | |||||
| what is self | 71-01-03.pdf | Last Sunday I remember I talked about our surrounding, which is civilized world ...… | ||||||
| True Concentration | v28-1-right-concentration.pdf | -- were given about our practice referring to Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva? ...… | ||||||
| Wherever I Go, I Meet Myself | v35-2-what-is-self.pdf | Most of us, maybe, want to know what is self. This is a big problem. Why you ...… | ||||||
| Wherever you go, you will see yourself | 71-02-07.pdf | 71-02-07-selection-bcr18-wb73.pdf | This morning I said you must find yourself in each being. That is actually what ...… | |||||
| humor is more real than reality | 71-02-09.pdf | I think, as Yoshimura Sensei told you the other night, Zen masters has some humorous ...… | ||||||
| Not Sticking to Enlightenment | v31-1-cant-make-date-enlightenment.pdf | The Sixth Patriarch said: “To dwell on emptiness and to keep calm mind is not ...… | ||||||
| calmness of your mind | 71-02-13.pdf | Good morning. We have been practicing sesshin, so I feel I didn't see some ...… | ||||||
| Be Kind with Yourself | v33-1-be-kind-to-yourself.pdf | It is more than six months [laughs] since-- Is it working? Student: Yes. -- ...… | This phrase not in audio, but handwritten in an early transcript: "That is why we have monastic rules, not" | |||||
| The Driver | 71-02-27.pdf | The purpose of our practice is, of course, to maybe to have full enlightenment. ...… | ||||||
| Why we have so many problems | 71-03-02.pdf | There are various kinds of religion, but why we have to [have] religion-- this ...… | Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| Calmness of Mind | v20-1-sesshin-lec-june71.pdf | Shikantaza, zazen, is-- our zazen is just to be ourselves. Just to be ourselves. ...… | trfc | |||||
| Precepts as Original Nature | 71-06-12.pdf | v35-1-precepts-as-orig-nature.pdf | We say “Zen Center student,” you know. Or, we say “Zen Center.” But it is-- ...… | only 2 | ||||
| Purely Involved Helping Others | 710622v30-2.pdf | v30-2-purely-involved-helping-others.pdf | I don't know where to start, you know, my talk, but anyway what I want to discuss ...… | Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Real Precepts Are Beyond Words | 71-07-02.pdf | v24-2-real-precepts-beyond-words.pdf | [Today I would like to]1-- lecture about precepts. I-- when I say ...… | muffled | ||||
| manifested three treasures | 71-07-06.pdf | I want to continue my talk about precepts-- Buddhist precepts. And last time ...… | muff. Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| why then is it necessary to accept precepts | 71-07-17.pdf | -- I explain about our precepts. As you must have found out, “the precepts,” ...… | Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| Universal Practice for Laymen and Monks | 710725v41.pdf | v41-uiniversal-practice.pdf | Tonight I want to explain the outline of our practice. As a monk and as a layman, ...… | low. Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Blue Cliff Records-61, Fuketsu's One Particle Of Dust | v18-1-fuketsu-one-particle-of-dust.pdf | Engo's Introduction Setting up the Dharma banner and establishing the Dharma ...… | low | |||||
236 records.