New (2020-21) Minimum Edit Versions of Shunryu Suzuki Lectures | ||||
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“wisdom seeks for wisdom” | 65-07-22 | 65-07-22-LE.htm | 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] |
religious problems concerning such as psychology or LSD | 65-07-26-D | 65-07-26-D-LE.pdf | Recently I find many problems concerning to religious problem, such as psychology ... | Q & A after lecture. Footnotes replaced 8-3-2020. |
questions | 65-07-28-D | 65-07-28-D-LE.htm | SR: I cannot think of anything to talk [about] for this evening. So if you have ... | Footnotes restored 8/4/2020. Changed "SR:-- or going out" to "Student D..." 4-9-2021, pf. |
questions | 65-07-29-B | 65-07-29-B-LE.htm | [Are there any]1 questions so far I talked? Student A: Why-- ... | Footnotes restored 8/4/2020. |
some more questions | 65-07-29-C | 65-07-29-C-LE.htm | SR: Do you have some question-- some more question? Student A: Roshi, would ... | traffic. Footnotes restored 8/4/2020. |
science or philosophy is like a dissection | 65-07-30-B | 65-07-30-B-LE.htm | [Tape operator: The sentence about "your mind"1 was in the meditation ... | see above. Footnotes restored 8-4-2020. Changed "not big" to "not dead"; "[4-5 words]" to "vivisect--vivisectors" 4/27/2021 pf. |
If you have a question | 65-07-30-C | 65-07-30-C-LE.pdf | SR: If you have a question, please give me. I want to answer about what I told ... | traffic. Footnotes restored 8-4-2020. |
Do you have some questions? | 65-07-30-D | 65-07-30-D-LE.htm | SR: Do you have some question? Student A: Sensei, D. T. Suzuki wrote that ... | traffic. Footnotes restored 8-4-2020. Changed "much be" to "must be" 4/29/2021 pf. |
Calmness | 65-08-26 | 65-08-26-LE.htm | 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." |
I have nothing in my mind | 65-08-28-B | 65-08-28-B-LE.htm | [Tape operator (Richard Baker): This is the end of the one o'clock lecture. ... | traffic. Footnotes restored 8-4-2020. |
Shushogi, Sections 11–17 | 66-01-21-A | 66-01-21-A-LE.pdf | The next chapter1 which we will learn is about precepts. And this ... | Changed "or [1 word] precepts" to "or Dogen's precepts"; "[film] negative is" to "a movie, it's"; "his life will" to "his wife will"; "become between" to "come between"; "Let alone [?]" to "Let alone policy" 8/25/2020 pf. |
Shushogi, Section 1 | 66-03-13-B | 66-03-13-B-LE.pdf | We started to recite Lotus Sutra-- Shushogi. Shushogi is the-- consist of various ... | tape fixed, chant, commnt added-4-14-10-start was in mid. Footnotes restored 8/16/2020. Change "should work on" to "should welcome"; "pet of" to "pet dogs" |
Genjo Koan, 5-13 | 66-05-26 | 66-05-26-LE.pdf | Firewood turns into ash, and it does not turn into firewood again. But do not ... | Footnotes restored 8/17/2020. |
Genjo Koan: Paragraphs 1–11 | 66-06-19-A | 66-06-19-A-LE.pdf | SR: Someone has my-- my paper.1 Student: [4-6 words unclear.] ... | traffic-informal talking at first - class?. Q & A after lecture. changed "may be not," to "may be enough." 8-28-2020 pf. Changed "[1 word] great mind" to "vast great mind" 8-29-2020 dc. |
Genjo Koan: Paragraphs 7-9 | 66-06-19-B | 66-06-19-B-LE.pdf | [Now it is specifically taught in Buddhism that life does not become death.] ... | Changed "six minutes" to "six minutes [seconds]"; "not be [1 word]" to "not be glad" 9/8/2020 pf. |
ten precepts | 66-06-19-C | 66-06-19-C-LE.pdf | Last time I explained the ten prohibitory precepts: Do not kill. Do not ... | little low. Footnotes restored 8/17/2020. Changed "And whether" to "And further" 9-9-2020 pf. |
The second paragraph of the Genjo Koan | 66-08-15-A | 66-08-15-A-LE.pdf | The second paragraph [of the Genjo Koan]: That we move ourselves and understand ... | Footnotes restored 8/17/2020. |
you cannot appreciate our teaching in its true sense | 66-08-15-B | 66-08-15-B-LE.pdf | [2-3 words] those who cannot appreciate the-- the food we are serving [?] to ... | |
think everything out | 66-08-15-C | 66-08-15-C-LE.pdf | [It is necessary] for us to think everything out, or else we-- we find it pretty ... | bc one file, with above. Footnotes restored 8/17/2020. |
The first day of the sesshin is almost finished | 66-08-15-D | 66-08-15-D-LE.pdf | The first day of the sesshin is almost finished. In the first day, I wanted you ... | Footnotes restored 9/10/2020. |
Our mind should be calm | 66-08-16 | 66-08-16-LE.pdf | Zazen doesn't follow [1-3 words unclear]. Our mind should-- should not be ... | |
This is the fourth day of our sesshin | 66-08-18-A | 66-08-18-A-LE.pdf | Tape operator: As I've said already, this machine has an idiosyncratic quality ... | [Lecture reconstructed by tape operator.] Footnotes restored 8/2/2020. |
Shobogenzo | 66-08-18-B | 66-08-18-B-LE.pdf | Before translating original text,1 I want to make sure the understanding ... | with above |
Shobogenzo | 66-08-19-A | 66-08-19-A-LE.pdf | I think you must have tired out [laughing], but not yet. I know you are not tired ... | 1&2- A2 has sep brief sr comment at end. Footnotes added 8-1-2020. |
Don't be attached to your attainment | 66-08-19-B | 66-08-19-B-LE.pdf | Don't be attached to your attainment as a result of-- as a result of past effort. ... | |
This fascicle of [Shobogenzo] | 66-08-19-C | 66-08-19-C-LE.pdf | This-- this fascicle of [Shobogenzo] “Sokushin Zebutsu,” “Mind Itself Is Buddha”-- ... | slow. Footnotes restored 8/2/2020. |
In the first instruction of ten instructions in Gakudo-yojin-shu | 66-12-17-A | 66-12-17-A-LE.pdf | In the first instruction of ten instructions in Gakudo-yojin-shu,1 ... | |
The Need for Training in Buddhism without Self-Seeking Mind | 66-12-17-B | 66-12-17-B-LE.pdf | In Buddhist training we always received the true Key handed down by our predecessors. ... | |
you must give up worldly desires | 67-04-22-A | 67-04-22-A-LE.pdf | 1 -- students. I want to give some important points. First of all, ... | Footnotes restored 9/10/2020. Changed "by the mirror" to "as a mirror" 9-21-2020 pf. |
This sesshin was wonderfully done | 67-04-22-B | 67-04-22-B-LE.pdf | 2 -- you have many things to do for yourself and for Zen Center. You-- ... | Footnotes and [Aside in Japanese ...] restored 9/10/2020. |
Genjo Koan No. 2 [1?] | 67-08-21 | 67-08-21-LE.htm | 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. |
To Polish A Tile Is Our Practice Actually | 67-08-24-D | 67-08-24-D-LE.htm | This morning we understood how important it is to practice Zen; to understand our ... | 2021 newly discovered tape. |
Zen is also Buddhism | 67-09-00A | 67-09-00A-LE.htm | 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. |
KPFA Radio Interview with Elsa Knight Thompson | 67-11-06-I | 67-11-06-I-LE.htm | Elsa Knight Thompson:1 -- by telling us something more about our ... | Footnotes restored 9/10/2020. |
Think the Unthinkable | 67-12-04-A | 67-12-04-A-LE.htm | To talk about merit of Zen for beginners is like to count other’s treasure. So ... | 2021 newly discovered tape. Afternoon Tassajara sesshin lecture. Changed "fast" to "fact" (multiple times) 12-28-2021, DC. |
The more … we study our way, the more it is difficult to explain it. | 67-12-04-B | 67-12-04-B-LE.htm | Our study-- the more you-- we study our way, the more it is difficult to explain ... | creek [audio was no letter-04 ?? Footnotes restored 9/12/2020. Change "know this" to "nowadays" 10-11-2020 pf. |
good and bad feeling | 67-12-05-A | 67-12-05-A-LE.htm | In previous lecture, I compared zazen practice and usual everyday activity. In ... | creek. Footnotes restored 9/10/2020. |
nature of our practice | 67-12-05-B | 67-12-05-B-LE.htm | As the nature of our practice is, like I told you over and over, and the point ... | Footnotes restored 9/12/2020. |
The mind which [we] will acquire | 67-12-06-A | 67-12-06-A-LE.htm | The mind which [we] will acquire or obtain by our pure practice is, as I said, ... | creek. Footnotes restored 10/2/2020. |
everything itself is buddha | 67-12-06-B | 67-12-06-B-LE.htm | We say everything has buddha-nature, so we have to treat as a buddha. To say ... | voice lowers at end |
Shosan Ceremony at Tassajara | 67-12-07 | 67-12-07-LE.htm | Buddha-- although Buddha started teaching at Varanasi,1 but actually ... | creek shosan. Footnotes restored 10/2/2020. |
Meal Chant | 68-01-11B | 68-01-11B-LE.htm | I already explained about Maitreya Buddha when I explained about the three period-- ... | see above, spedup a bit at B2- 57:15. Q & A after lecture. Student A's question and part of Suzuki's response are not on the now available audio. |
Samantabhadra Buddha | 68-01-12 | 68-01-12-LE.htm | We are still studying about Samantabhadra Buddha. This buddha is told in Saddharma-- ... | frgmnt to :50 slowed downat1st spedat:43. Q & A after lecture. Footnotes restored 10/12/2020. |
Because I was not well | 68-04-23-A | 68-04-23-A-LE.htm | Because I was not well [?], I am sorry I couldn't join your practice so much. ... | for A and B. Q & A after lecture. Footnotes restored 10/12/2020. Changed "steam" to "stream", "sprit" to "spirit" 11/9/2020 pf. |
Esalen Institute: First of two lectures | 68-06-28 | 68-06-28-LE.htm | I find it's difficult to keep contact with you when I--whenever we talks--I talk, ... | Q & A after lecture. Changed "For we" to "So we", "about life" to "of our life", "this continuity" to "discontinuity", add quotes "Oh, it's okay" "Oh, that is true, that is okay", "saw it as" to "sword has", "soft, soft" to "soft, so" 5-21-2021 pf. |
What is Soto and what is Rinzai? | 68-07-21 | 68-07-21-LE.htm | 1-- I don't think [laughs] we can reach conclusion. I was asked ... | 2nd half prt 1 louder. Q & A after lecture. Footnotes restored 10/13/2020. Changed date given, sdh. |
Bring Me The Rhinoceros Fan | 68-07-22 | 68-07-22-LE.htm | The people say, Zen is, you know, is very difficult to understand. Yes, it is ... | Changed "separate" to "satisfactory"; "true zazen" to "true dragon"; "He did say" to "He didn't say"; "Is there difficulty?" to "Easy decision."; "difficult word" to "difficult to win"; "appointed" to "who is"; "hit it" to "hit you" 4/4/2022 pf. |
bodhisattva's ten powers | 68-08-25 | 68-08-25-LE.htm | This morning I want to continue the explanation of the ten powers. This-- those ... | [Verbatim transcript partially done. (Sound problem.)] Footnotes restored 10/13/2020. |
at the end of the year we clean up our house | 68-12-29 | 68-12-29-LE.htm | Next Tuesday we will have no lecture, so this will be--this lecture will be ... | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] Made verbatim 1/2022. |
Nansen's “Everyday Mind Is Dao” | 69-03-10 | 69-03-10-LE.htm | -- it was very, very cold. It was November? I don't remember exactly. November ... | kat and suzuki - fragment w/ps int end cut for trim. Footnotes restored 11/13/2020. |
how to take our bodhisattva's vow | 69-04-29 | 69-04-29-LE.htm | This morning I want to-- to explain how to take our bodhisattva's vow. We say ... | Audio. Footnotes restored 11/13/2020. Changed "I try" to "I will try" 12/7/2020 pf. |
Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen | 69-07-00 | 69-07-00-LE.htm | In-- in America, between Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen there-- there must be some clear ... | Footnotes restored 11/13/2020. |
FORM AND EMPTINESS II | 69-07-09 | 69-07-09-LE.htm | In our previous lectures we have studied the relationship between-- relationship ... | creek. Q & A after lecture. Footnotes restored 11/13/2020. |
That is the purpose of counting | 69-07-28 | 69-07-28-LE.htm | 1 -- mind. That is the purpose of counting. Not just count, you know. Student ... | loud crickets. Footnotes restored 11/14/2020. |
the most important precept | 69-08-01 | 69-08-01-LE.htm | As a Buddhist, of course, the most important precept is to-- to believe in Buddha ... | loud creek. Footnotes restored 11/14/2020. Changed "[tape defective and unclear for 8-12 words]" to "the statement, "everything changes," just to ignore old way of life" 12-29-2020 pf. |
The first teaching | 69-08-02 | 69-08-02-LE.htm | I'm afraid I will-- I am making you hotter [laughs] because I cough and my lecture ... | voice goes low crickets. Added "(a)—(b)—(c):" and footnotes restored 11/14/2020. Changed "should ignore" to "should not ignore", "electric bombs" to "electric bulbs" 1-1-2021 pf. |
We practice zazen so that we attain selflessness | 69-08-03 | 69-08-03-LE.htm | As most of you know, this is Yoshimura Ryogen Sensei.1 Ryogen Yoshimura ... | crickets. Footnotes restored 11/14/2020. Changed "the water too" to "that water too"; "helping you." to "helping." 1-4-2021 pf. |
some questions | 69-08-12 | 69-08-12-LE.htm | [I did not]1 prepare for tonight lecture anything. So I want you to ... | slipping tape on 2. Footnotes restored 12/23/2020. Change "another words" to "other words" 1-8-2021 pf. Changed "soup and the fish" to "soup of the fish" 1-31-2021 pf. |
our way to attain liberation | 69-08-18 | 69-08-18-LE.htm | SR: Tonight I want to discuss about our way to attain liberation or enlightenment. ... | crickets. Q & A after lecture. Changed "Joint" to "Jinshu" 12-23-2020 pf. Footnotes restored 12/23/2020. Change "thought" to "sword"; "sounds like 'weapon'" to "weapon"; "know whose" to "knows whose" 1-15-2021 pf. |
some questions | 69-08-21 | 69-08-21-LE.pdf | SR: If you want, please come here. I am sorry I haven't prepare anything ... | crickets flange trim more? Changed "disorder" to "this order", "can accept [expect?]. That" to "can, except that" 8/20/2020 pf. |
twelve links of causation | 69-08-23 | 69-08-23-LE.pdf | Let's continue to study about twelve links of causation. Causation of-- one understanding ... | crickets. Q & A after lecture. Footnotes restored 8/22/2020. Changed "three words: to follow [?] way" to "three worlds, two-fold way" 8/24/2020 pf. |
question and answer | 69-08-25 | 69-08-25-LE.pdf | Tonight, maybe, we will have question and answer. As usual, will you give me ... | 1 n 2 dif lect 2 is 1? Chants at frst n end creek and crickets. Footnotes restored 8/23/2020. Changed "don't why" to "don't know why"; "solve the trouble" to "solve the problem"; "more [1 word]" to "more easier" 8/31/2020 pf. |
Sesshin, Shosan Ceremony | 69-09-00-E | 69-09-00-E-LE.htm | SR: -- it will be the foundation of the everyday activity. That is real [1 ... | Added "stop violence"; change "eat" to "do it", "you can [1-2 words]" to "you can get by thus [?]" 1-22-2021 pf. |
new students questions | 69-10-14 | 69-10-14-LE.htm | SR: Since I resigned from Sokoji Temple, I-- my mind become more busy than before. ... | Footnotes restored 12/23/2020. |
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-1 | 69-10-20 | 69-10-20-LE.html | As many of you are the students who joined our training-- this training period, ... | spedup toward end. Q & A after lecture. Changed "repeats come" to "repeats some" 9-29-2020 pf. |
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-2 | 69-10-23 | 69-10-23-LE.html | -- out things difficult to understand. The mystery of Tathagata is difficult ... | sped up. Change "but in Hinayana" to "but in Mahayana"; "of if" to "or if" 10-3-2020 pf. |
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-4 | 69-10-25 | 69-10-25-LE.htm | Last night1 I explained the most important part of this chapter [II], ... | sped up. Q & A after lecture. Footnotes restored 11/20/2020. |
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-5 | 69-10-28 | 69-10-28-LE.htm | I think there must be many things to prepare before you understand-- before you ... | Multiple attempts to improve sound quality, but still very unclear towards end of audio. Q & A after lecture. Footnotes restored 11/22/2020. New transcription of last section, 6/2021 pf. |
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-6 | 69-10-30 | 69-10-30-LE.pdf | The print-- print you have got there is trans- -- mostly translated from Kumarajiva's ... | extreme spedup. Q & A after lecture. |
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-7 | 69-11-07 | 69-11-07-LE.pdf | In this sutra in Chapter II, “Skillful Means,” he-- he is correcting our misunderstanding ... | loud. Q & A after lecture. Footnotes restored 8/7/2020. |
Miss Ransom was teacher of conversation | 69-11-09 | 69-11-09-LE.htm | Peter Schneider: I would like to ask Roshi a question for the Wind Bell that ... | trim. Q & A after lecture. Footnotes restored 12/23/2020. |
some questions | 69-11-11 | 69-11-11-LE.htm | SR: If you-- if you have some question, I am happy to answer for the question. ... | Footnotes restored 12/24/2020. Change "sew" to "sow"; "will run" to "will learn" 2-7-2021 pf. |
form is emptiness, and emptiness is form | 69-11-13 | 69-11-13-LE.htm | Tonight I am supposed to explain “form is emptiness, and emptiness is form.” ... | Q & A after lecture. Footnotes restored 12/24/2020. Change "one [?]" to "one [wander?]" 2-16-2021. |
pinch hitter | 69-11-25 | 69-11-25-LE.htm | SR: I am very happy to be with you. I am rather tired, and pinch hitter1 ... | seems mostly Kat |
Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 6 | 69-12-04 | 69-12-04-LE.htm | Our sesshin is already nearing to the end. As I said before, this sesshin will ... | little sped? Footnotes restored 12/24/2020. Changed "hyakujiko" to "hyakujitsuko" 2-19-2021 pf. |
Ordination Ceremony: Bill Kwong and Silas Hoadley | 70-01-11 | 70-01-11-LE.htm | We have ordination ceremony for Bill Kwong and Silas Hoadley after this lecture-- ... | A B on files - 1 2? Wind? |
Rules | 70-01-18 | 70-01-18-LE.htm | In Japan now it is a season of typhoon. And recently, on the 16th, a typhoon ... | Footnotes restored 1/11/2021. |
each one of us is a cook | 70-02-01-B | 70-02-01-B-LE.htm | Sesshin is almost-- sesshin has almost completed. In this sesshin, we have learned ... | bit of ms. Footnotes restored 1/11/2021. |
“an unsurpassed, penetrating Buddha” | 70-02-08 | 70-02-08-LE.htm | Each time we-- we start lecture, we recite “an unsurpassed, penetrating Buddha,” ... | Footnote restored 1/11/2021. |
Remarks at the Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind Temple | 70-04-25 | 70-04-25-LE.htm | Suzuki (speaking formally): On this day of the opening of Mahabodhisattva Zendo ... | from A n B ? See below. 2 footnotes added 1/11/2021. |
we try to control or restrict our activity | 70-05-05 | 70-05-05-LE.htm | Once a time of one thousand or two thousand is not so long time in comparison ... | Footnote restored 1/12/2021. Changed "Very strong:" to "Based on" 3-1-2021 pf. |
zazen practice and to listen to right teacher | 70-08-03 | 70-08-03-LE.htm | In our practice two important practice is zazen practice and to listen to your ... | Changed quotation to include 2 sentences instead of 1 “Sentient beings...save them?” 7/9/2022 DC. |
our practice is expression of our true buddha-mind | 70-08-04 | 70-08-04-LE.htm | In-- in everyday life, to observe precepts and, in our practice, to continue ... | Q & A after lecture. Footnotes restored 1/12/2021. |
Priest Ordination Ceremony: Paul Discoe and Reb Anderson | 70-08-09 | 70-08-09-LE.htm | Suzuki (speaking formally):1 -- Paul Discoe and [1 word unclear] ... | Footnotes restored 1/12/2021. |
restore the Buddhist teaching in its original way | 70-08-16-A | 70-08-16-A-LE.htm | -- restore the Buddhist teaching in its original way. So that you don't ... | |
when someone receives transmission | 70-08-25-A | 70-08-25-A-LE.htm | As some of-- some of you may know, tomorrow I am leaving San Francisco for-- ... | Footnotes restored 2/14/2021. |
Teisho (Introduced by Jakusho Kwong) | 70-12-23 | 70-12-23-LE.htm | Zazen-- zazen practice, for us, more and more become important. Nowadays, as ... | low level-MV womn Kwong-intr-chant-SR |
no practice will destroy people | 70-12-27 | 70-12-27-LE.htm | Dogen Zenji said sickness does not, you know, destroy-- destroy people, but no ... | Footnote restored 2/14/2021. |
Just Enough Problems | 71-02-12-A | 71-02-12-A-LE.htm | This is the seventh day of the sesshin, and you came already too far. So you ... | 2 lectures - saved one with all chants. Footnote restored 2/14/2021. |
it is actually Buddha's practice | 71-02-20 | 71-02-20-LE.htm | Buddha's practice goes first. Our practice goes. We say, “our practice,” but ... | A? short |
Okesa Ceremony | 71-06-06 | 71-06-06-LE.htm | Tenshin: I will read now a translation of the sutra we just chanted: Listen ... | low level at first. Footnotes restored 2/14/2021. Changed "intention [attention?]" to "activity", "this family" to "this ceremony" 3-26-2021 pf. |
sewing sesshin | 71-06-20 | 71-06-20-LE.htm | This sesshin-- we call it “sewing sesshin”-- sesshin and, actually, rakusu sewing-- ... | only 2. Q & A after lecture. Footnotes restored 2/14/2021. |
Translation of Unknown Text | 71-08-00 | 71-08-00-LE.htm | “Therefore, no buddha attained enlightenment without the form of shaving head-- ...… | w yvonne - but cut her his early few words. Footnote restored 2/14/2021. |