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      Shunryu Suzuki Lecture Indexes by year. This page 1967.
1961-64------1965------1966------1968-------1969------1970------1971

V=verbatim transcript
U=not verbatim W=notes
I=interview X=forget it
ZC-link to SFZC.org presentation of lecture		 Transcripts
ZM=zmbm/ TD =Trudy Dixon's folder/ NAS=Not Always So/ SDK= Branching Streams/
 * = Nothing Special selection		 AUDIO MP3s 16kbps
SS talk=only S. Suzuki talking, Other audio deleted or, if whole or of any import saved to Other- B=Baker/E=end/chant=at first		 TITLES AND FIRST LINES to transcripts n=tape noise,
nn=more noise
ns=slight noise
z=audio exists
transcript notes 8pt like this		 transcript collection year added
2=2002 etc
LECTURE FILE NAME BOOKS Selections PDF  Light Edits MP3
SS talk		 MP3 SS talk2 Other not  SS TITLES AND FIRST LINES DC NOTES audio 10pt print 8pt Year New
67-01-05U ZM-99 PDF         Posture - In our practice the important thing is our physical posture we take, and breathing… way of taking breathing.   9
67-01-12U ZM-34 PDF         Don't try to stop the thinking when you are practicing zazen. Let it stop.   9
67-02-02U ZM-86 PDF         Communication - As I cannot speak your language so well that I find some way to communicate with you.   9
67-03-12W   PDF         Artino notes - “We should sit in the middle of our problems...” - The world of thinking is that of our ordinary mind. n 2
67-03-22W   PDF         Artino notes - [Suzuki Roshi read a rendition of "Joshu's Mu."  - "Has a dog Buddha nature?"  Everyone knows that Buddha nature   2
67-03-23U ZM-31 PDF         To live in the realm of Buddha Nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment.   2
67-03-26W   PDF         Artino notes - “When small mind finds itself in big mind, there is peace...” - To transmit the Buddha-mind is to transmit our practice.   2
67-04-02W   PDF         Artino notes - “Our pockets are full of treasure right now...” - We originally were and are Buddha nature.    2
67-04-05W   PDF         Artino notes - “Give up all preconceived ideas and feelings ...” - A lecture here in the zendō is meaningful in a way quite different    2
67-04-06U ZM-125 PDF         The True Teaching - Zazen is not one of the four activities. To walk, to stand, to sit, to lie down, we say, are the four activities, or four   9
67-04-13U ZM-71 PDF         Mistakes in Practice - There may be various kinds of practice or ways of practice or understanding of practice.   9
67-04-16W   PDF         Artino notes - A teaching, i.e., sutra, cannot be whole and perfect because it, like a medical prescription,     2
67-04-22-AV   PDF   Audio     … When you want to study Buddhism or Zen, you must give up worldly desires or you must realize that it is useless to seek for worldly desires.   ns 2
67-04-22-BV   PDF   Audio     …  This sesshin was wonderfully done.  This is, I think, very unusual.  By usual mind this kind of thing cannot be fulfilled. n 2
67-04-26W   PDF         Artino notes - “Our human nature and that of the Buddha are the same” - [Suzuki read from a letter to him by an American student   2
67-05-17W   PDF         Artino notes - “Zen emphasizes the simplest way of practice...” - You may think that the various religions of the world will,   2
67-05-18U ZM-59 PDF         Right Effort - The most important point in our practice is to have right effort.   9
67-05-21W   PDF         Artino notes - “Correct zazen is your home...” - Will power is something you have always.” Thinking power in zazen is not  date surely wrong,  680517-not Sun,Wed 9
67-05-28W   PDF         Artino notes - “True activity includes everything...” - [Questions to Suzuki on difference between a "monk" and a "master."    2
67-05-31W   PDF         Artino notes - It is so that religion is a cultural-social phenomena as well as a personal experience.   2
67-06-01U ZM-107 PDF         Naturalness - There is big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness.   9
67-06-11U   PDF         Today I will explain buddha, dharma, and sangha.   2
67-06-12U   PDF         From now on, on each Sunday service I want to continue the lecture about Shi-sho-ku.   2
67-06-22 AU TD PDF         I am so grateful to introduce to you Kobun Chino Sensei.  was 22 II 9
67-06-22 BU TD PDF         Opposites - Tonight perhaps I was supposed to explain the chapter of the 32 pairs of opposites; right and wrong, there he points out 32 pairs was no letter 9
67-08-00U TD PDF         It is a pretty long time since I saw you all. But if we sit with you in this way I don’t feel so… I feel as if I were in San Francisco   9
67-08-02U   PDF         … when you have a new experience, at first you may form a greater belief.   2
67-08-14U   PDF         Our study will be concentrated for a while on the statement:  "The mind itself is Buddha."   2
67-08-20U   PDF         There are four ways of understanding the relationship of form and emptiness: form is emptiness, emptiness is form, form is form,   2
67-08-21U   PDF         There is a slight difference between your usual activity and the activity in our monastery.   2
67-08-23U   PDF         Buddhism is not any special teaching, and enlightenment is not any particular stage that you attain.  When you understand your life completely, that is enlightenment.   2
67-08-24-AU   PDF         … She was a part of the world, and whatever she said from the top of the mountain was in her mind.   2
67-08-24-BU   PDF         … The main point of practice is to listen to your teacher and to practice zazen.   2
67-08-31 ZM-80 PDF         Zen story or Zen koan is very difficult to understand before you understand what we are doing moment after moment.   9
67-09-00AV   PDF   Audio 1 Audio 2   Tonight my talk will be quite informal.  You are, of course, interested in Zen.  But Zen is also Buddhism, you know.  So it is necessary for you n cut few words at first adjust mic - 1 mn ? 2
67-09-00-B                  
67-09-00-C                  
67-09-01UX               see 67-08-31  
67-09-08       Audio       See below  
67-09-08-AN             [Verbatim transcript not available.  (Sound problem.)] n-Crestone tape-A? DB cmnt 660815D  
67-09-08-BU * PDF   Audio chant E-chant Tonight I want to give you a correct idea of Buddhism or Zen.  In a word, Zen is the teaching or practice of seeing "things as it is" or crickets 2
67-09-08-CN             [Verbatim transcript not available.  (Sound problem.)]    
67-09-08-DN             [Verbatim transcript not available.  (Sound problem.)]    
67-09-08-FN                  
67-09-08-GN             [Verbatim transcript not available.  (Sound problem.)] where are these tapes?  
67-09-12       Audio   E-chant   n - muffled Crestone took X off  
67-09-13-C                  
67-09-27U ZM-90 PDF         The more you understand our thinking, the more you find it difficult to talk about it, because the purpose of talk is to give some idea   9
67-10-00       Audio   chant   muffled - was mrkd X  
67-11-02U ZM-41 PDF         We say our practice without gaining idea, practice without expecting even enlightenment   9
67-11-06-IV   PDF   Audio     INTERVIEW-with Elsa Knight Thompson. Broadcast on KPFA on 1/06/68:  Shunryū Suzuki-rōshi came to America about six years ago…. was 660218B can KPFA better copy?  2
67-12-01-AV   PDF   Audio     In this sesshin, as I said this morning, our practice will be concentrated on putting power in your hara or tanden. ns 2
67-12-01-BV   PDF   Audio     This afternoon, in my lecture I told you why we should practice zazen and what is our practice.  After all, our practice is quite different from creek 2
67-12-02V   PDF   Audio     [fix this - 02 and 04A same? but not start the same - check out] creek 2
67-12-04 A   ?   Audio     Our inner power of practice will appear according to the situation and … will respond to the situation you have like a bell.  If you hit strong,  same as 67-12-02 ?? 2
67-12-04-BV   PDF   Audio     The more … we study our way, the more it is difficult to explain it.  But Dōgen-zenji thought there must be some way to make his descendent creek [audio was no letter-04  ?? 2
67-12-05-AV   PDF   Audio     In previous lecture, I compared zazen practice and usual everyday activity.  In usual activity, as you know, our effort is directed to creek 2
67-12-05-BV   PDF   Audio     As the nature of our practice is, like I told you over and over, and the point [of] our effort is directed—is like this, for beginner it looks like z 2
67-12-06-AV   PDF   Audio     The mind which [we] will acquire or obtain by our pure practice is, as I said, something which is not graspable—which is beyond our words. creek 2
67-12-06-BV   PDF   Audio     We say everything has buddha-nature, so we have to treat as a buddha. ns voice lowers at end 2
67-12-07V      PDF   Audio   Cermny First Shōsan Ceremony at Tassajara:  Although Buddha started teaching at Paranasi, but actually when he attained enlightenment creek shosan 2
67-12-14U TD PDF         It's been a pretty long time since I saw you. I am still studying hard to find out what is our way.   9