Recently Added or Significantly Updated Versions of Shunryu Suzuki Lectures | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ↑ Chapter Title (click for audio & all versions) ↓ |
↑ Original Transcript ↓ |
Minimum Edit Transcript |
First Line of Original Transcript | Notes | ↑Added or Updated ↓ |
| 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. | 2022-02-14 |
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-8 | 68-10-00-G | 68-10-00-GU.pdf | Buddha's disciples were very good people, generous and honest and sincere, but ... | Q & A after lecture. | 2022-11-11 |
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-6 | 68-10-00-E | The other day someone asked me back about Vairocana Buddha. Vairocana Buddha ... | 2022-12-14 | ||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-5 | 68-10-00-D | 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. | 2022-09-24 |
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-4 | 68-10-00-C | 68-10-00-CU.pdf | The point—point of my previous lecture is—because it may be difficult for you ... | Q & A after lecture. | 2022-09-15 |
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-3 | 68-10-00-B | 68-10-00-BU.pdf | I already explained nature of Nirmanakaya Buddha and Sambhogakaya Buddha. The ... | Q & A after lecture. | 2022-09-13 |
| Shosan Ceremony | 68-09-00 | 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. | 2022-08-23 | |
| Bodhidharma | 68-07-23 | [First words missed] ... asked me about the scroll right there. That is Bodhidharma ... | Renamed in 2/2022 based on Engage Wisdom audio - old file name: 68-06-00. July 29th, 1968 | 2022-02-23 | |
| 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. | 2022-04-08 |
| Shosan Ceremony | 68-07-00-B | SR: We have been practicing sesshin for seven days. Although we have—in this ... | Dated as the last day of the Sept. '68 sesshin at Tassajara. From newly discovered tape by Engage Wisdom in 2021. | 2022-05-25 | |
| Esalen Institute, Second Lecture: Observing the Precepts | 68-06-29 | Last night I talked about construction of teaching and our practice in one word ... | Esalen Institute: Second of two lectures. | 2023-02-01 | |
| become more honest and direct | 68-00-00-B | SR: Once more, I think, I—I hope people will become honest and more direct, you ... | spedup a bit [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] On EngageWisdom dated 10-12-1968. Q & A after lecture. | 2022-08-19 | |
| if our teaching is a special teaching | 67-10-00 | Someone asked me this evening, and that—if our teaching is special teaching which ... | muffled | 2022-08-05 | |
| Using Various Stones | 67-09-08-B | 67-09-08-BU.pdf | Tonight I want to give you some correct idea of Buddhism or Zen. In a word, Zen ... | crickets. Q & A after lecture. | 2022-08-22 |
| Reflections on the Prajna Paramita Sutra | 67-08-24C | Starting from the understanding of form and emptiness, and emptiness is form, ... | 2022-05-30 | ||
| Genjo Koan No. 4 | 67-08-24-A | … She was a part of the world, and whatever she said from top of the mountain, ... | Edited by Brian Fikes | 2022-08-01 | |
| Buddhism Is Not a Special Teaching; Enlightenment Is Not a Particular Stage | 67-08-23 | Buddhism is not any special teaching, and enlightenment is not any particular ... | 2022-05-04 | ||
| Genjo Koan | 67-08-20 | Our understanding will be four: one is form is emptiness, and emptiness is form, ... | 2022-04-30 | ||
| when you have a new experience | 67-08-02 | …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." | 2022-04-27 | |
| We Are Always Helping Others | 66-07-23-A | [Tape operator's microphone test at beginning, followed by silence up to 1:00] I'm ... | 2021 newly discovered tape. Transcript from Engage Wisdom website. Many inaudible words. | 2022-02-28 | |
| Real Calmness Is In A Noisy Place | 66-03-26-C | Our monthly one-day sesshin is not a matter of something unusual for us anymore; ... | 2021 newly discovered tape. Old title was "Way-Seeking Mind and Right Practice." | 2022-04-18 | |
| The Way-Seeking Mind | 66-03-26-A | When we feel the evanescence of life, or when we have problem for ourselves, ... | (Sound problem.) | 2022-11-09 | |
| To Study The Self | 66-02-19-A | SR: Once a candle start to burn it will continue to burn because—because when ... | Date is approximate. This audio was separated from 66-02-19 at the tape operator's announcement. Audio quality is poor, so this is a rough verbatim transcript. | 2022-06-02 | |
| Where There is Some Limitation, There is Universality | 66-02-18 | Every morning at monastery it says, "In the night—in the darkness, there is brightness, ... | Transcript and title, SDH 10/21. Lecture date is approximate. | 2022-03-10 | |
| Tokusan and The Old Lady | 66-01-22N | [Tape operator tests microphone] To practice sesshin [30 second gap in audio ... | This tape has been reprocessed, and some of the transcript may be clear now. Seems more like an end of sesshin lecture. (Sound problem.) Lecture date has been changed. | 2022-03-25 | |
| In the Prajnaparamita Sutra | 66-01-21-BN | In Prajnaparamita Sutra, which we recite every morning and evening, it says, “No ... | 2022-02-04 | ||
| Buddhism has many annual layers like a big tree | 65-12-11-B | Buddhism has many annual year layers like big trees. And traditionally we respect ... | 2022-07-21 | ||
| Most of you are beginners | 65-12-11-A | Most of you are beginners, so it may be rather difficult why we practice zazen ... | Intro from above moved here. Q & A after lecture. | 2022-07-18 | |
| Study Yourself | 65-09-09 | 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." | 2022-03-02 | |
| Lunch Instruction | 65-07-28-BN | [Some words missed]... he [Buddha] came back and he ate his food, his meal, from ...… | Transcription SDH 9/21. Tape 3 Summer Sesshin July 1965 Wednesday morning 12:00 lunch instruction. (Sound problem.)] | 2022-02-27 | |