Shunryu Suzuki Lecture Index
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Shunryu Suzuki Lecture Indexes by year. This page 1969.
1961-64-------1965------1966------1967------1968------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 | Light Edits |
MP3 SS talk |
MP3 SS talk2 | Other not SS | TITLES AND FIRST LINES | DC NOTES audio 10pt print 8pt | Year New | |
| 69-03-09V | * | Audio | I am glad to see you from here [laughs]. … Whatever happen to us, it is something which it should happen …. So purpose of our practice | z | 2 | ||||
| 69-03-10V | Audio | fragmnt | … it was very, very cold. It was November? I don't remember exactly. … I want to—I want you to understand how you practice | kat and suzuki - fragment w/ps int end cut for trim | 2 | ||||
| 69-03-15V | NAS * | LE | Audio | In your zazen, perhaps you will have many difficulties or problems. | z | 2 | |||
| 69-03-16V | Audio | Our practice should be based on the idea of selflessness. | z | 2 | |||||
| 69-03-30V | NAS * | LE | Audio | [The point of] my talk is just to give you some help in your practice. | z | 2 | |||
| 69-04-08V | * | Audio | [Recently] I was talking about denial of, you know, desires. | n loud | 2 | ||||
| n69-04-19V | * | Audio | … Actually, Zen is not something to talk [about], and also it is something to talk [about]. | suzuki comes in at 20 after Yoshimura? | 2 | ||||
| 69-04-20V | NAS * | LE | Audio | It's—it is pretty difficult, but I will try—try to speak about purpose of our practice. | n | 2 | |||
| 69-04-29V | Audio | This morning I want to—to explain how to take our bodhisattva's vow. | Audio | 2 | |||||
| 69-05-18V | Audio | I don't know what to say. I am already 65 years old. Today I became 65. | z | 2 | |||||
| 69-06-00V | Audio | A famous Chinese Zen master, Yakusan, did not give lectures for a long time. | n | 2 | |||||
| 69-06-17V | Audio | Just to—just to practice zazen, you know, will not be perfect enough. | z | 2 | |||||
| 69-06-22V | * | Audio | E-chant bells | Dōgen-zenji says: "Everything is encourages us to attain enlightenment. Mountains and rivers, earth and sky: | z | 2 | |||
| 69-06-29N | Audio | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | speeds up extreme toward end | ||||||
| 69-07-00V | Audio | chant | E-chant | Morning. In—in America, between Rinzai Zen and Sōtō Zen there … must be some clear understanding of—of the two, or relationship of | was-1 and endsatend why1?-check orig | 2 | |||
| 69-07-00-2 | no 2 | ||||||||
| 69-07-01V | Audio | It is rather difficult for us to figure out why we started to practice zazen. | n flange sound | 2 | |||||
| 69-07-03V | Audio | I have explained the poem about "Emptiness is form," or shōchūhen. | creek level low | 2 | |||||
| 69-07-08V | Audio | E-chant | Tonight I have nothing special which I want to talk [about]. | z | 2 | ||||
| 69-07-09V | Audio | In our previous lectures we have studied the relationship between—relationship between real and seeming, or emptiness and forms. | creek | 2 | |||||
| 69-07-11V | Audio | Cermny | Trudy Dixon Funeral - Go, my disciple Sesshin Baiho. | z | 2 | ||||
| 69-07-15V | Audio | E-chant | Again, I have nothing in my mind [laughs, laughter]. | z | 2 | ||||
| 69-07-20V | NAS | LE | Audio | chant | If you go to some library you will see many books. And those—in those books, we will find out our achievement, our human knowledge, | loud | 2 | ||
| 69-07-26V | Audio | A monk asked … Zen Master Tōzan … "It is so hot," you know. "How is it possible to go somewhere where it is not hot?" | creek | 2 | |||||
| 69-07-28V | Audio | … mind. That is the purpose of counting [-breathing practice]. Not just count, you know. | loud crickets | 2 | |||||
| 69-08-01V | Audio | chant | As a Buddhist, of course, the most important precept is to—to believe in Buddha and his teaching and his disciples. | loud creek | 2 | ||||
| 69-08-02V | Audio | I'm afraid I … am making you hotter [laughs]. … We have four or three series of Buddhist teaching. The teaching … that everything is | voice goes low crickets | 2 | |||||
| 69-08-03V | Audio | As most of you know, this is Yoshimura Ryogen-sensei. Ryogen Yoshimura-sensei. … May be better to explain about the selflessness | crickets | 2 | |||||
| 69-08-06V | * | Audio | chant | E-chant | I think you are facing actual problem in your zazen practice. The worst one may be the pain of your legs, maybe. | loud | 2 | ||
| 69-08-07V | NAS * | LE | Audio | E-chant | [In] Buddhist scripture, you know, there is a famous story. Water is same, but—water is, for human being, is water [laughs], and for | loud | 2 | ||
| 69-08-12V | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | E-chant | [I did not] prepare for tonight lecture anything. So I want you to ask some questions, and I will answer for the question, as I have nothing | slipping tape on 2 | 2 | |||
| 69-08-18V | Audio | Tonight I want to discuss about our way to attain liberation or enlightenment. | crickets | 2 | |||||
| 69-08-21V | Audio | I am sorry I haven't prepare anything for lecture—for this lecture. So I should be very happy if you have some question. | crickets flange trim more? | 2 | |||||
| 69-08-23V | Audio | Let's continue to study about twelve links of causation. | crickets | 2 | |||||
| 69-08-25V | Audio | Tonight, maybe, we will have question and answer. | 1 n 2 dif lect 2 is 1? Chants at frst n end creek and crickets | 2 | |||||
| 69-08-28V | Audio | Weird E-fragmnt | I want you to ask me a question. [Laughs.] I have nothing in my mind to say. | choose best for trim of the two versions | 2 | ||||
| 69-08-30N | Audio | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | 1 speeds up 2 is new lect or 1 is 2 an 2 1 | ||||||
| 69-09-00-AV | NAS * | LE | Audio | In our practice, the most important thing [is] to—to know—to know. | speedsup n | 2 | |||
| 69-09-00-BV | NAS | LE | Audio | We have been talking about—discuss—discussing about reality, actually, and how we practice our way in our zazen and in our | speedsup n | 2 | |||
| 69-09-00-CV | Audio | We are talking about our practice. What is the practice, and what is enlightenment, and how we practice. | loud speedsup n | 2 | |||||
| 69-09-00-DV | Audio | We discussed about the question and answer between the Seventeenth Patriarch and Eighteenth Patriarch. | crickets | ||||||
| 69-09-00-EV | Audio | Shōsan Ceremony: Suzuki-rōshi: … it will be the foundation of the everyday activity. | c | 2 | |||||
| 69-09-00-X | |||||||||
| 69-09-14V | NAS * | LE | Audio | Sunday school—a Sunday-school girl saw me in sitting, and she said: "I can do it." And she crossed her legs like this [gesturing], | added from orig for t-named 14plus | 2 | |||
| 69-09-14 II | xtra w/ above | [same as above but longer] | bad sound but longer-can't be original-dif? | ||||||
| 69-09-16-IAU | Audio | Peter Schneider interviews with Shunryu Suzuki | nnn dc trnsc careflly but need to check | 9 | |||||
| 69-09-16-IBU | Audio | same as above | nnn | 9 | |||||
| 69-09-16-IC | in A&B | Audio | same as above - if there's a third tape | nnn but no third tape in original | |||||
| 69-09-16-W | ss curriculum vitae | 9 | |||||||
| 69-09-16-X | notsurewhatthisis - Crestone dup tape? | ||||||||
| 69-09-16V | * | Audio | I have not much chance to think about why I came to America or why I became a priest, but today when—while I was talking with Peter | loud | 2 | ||||
| 69-10-14V | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | Since I resigned from Soko-ji Temple, I—my mind become more busy than before. | z | 2 | ||||
| 69-10-20V | Audio | Lotus Sūtra, Ch. 2: As many of you are the students who joined our training—this training period, and perhaps many of you didn't join the | spedup toward end | 2 | |||||
| 69-10-23V | Audio | Lotus Sūtra, Ch. 2: … out things difficult to understand. The mystery of Tathāgata is difficult to understand, Shāriputra. | sped up | 2 | |||||
| 69-10-25V | Audio | Lotus Sūtra, Ch. 2: Last night I explained the most important part of this chapter." | sped up | 2 | |||||
| 69-10-28V | Audio | Lotus Sūtra, Ch. 2: I think there must be many things to prepare before you … read Lotus Sūtra. | extreme spedup | 2 | |||||
| 69-10-30V | Audio | Lotus Sūtra, Ch. 2: The print … you have got there is … mostly translated from Kumārajīva's translation. | extreme spedup | 2 | |||||
| 69-11-07V | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | Lotus Sūtra, Ch. 2: In this sūtra in Chapter II, "Skillful Means," he … is correcting our misunderstanding about the vehicle of shrāvakas | loud | 2 | ||||
| 69-11-09V | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | Peter Schneider: I would like to ask Rōshi a question for the Wind Bell. | trim | 2 | ||||
| 69-11-11V | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | If you—if you have some question, I am happy to answer for the question. And in that way, if necessary, I will refer to the Lotus Sūtra. | z | 2 | ||||
| 69-11-13V | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | Tonight I am supposed to explain "form is emptiness, and emptiness is form." | z | 2 | ||||
| 69-11-16V | ZM-133 * | Audio | E-chant | This morning, I want to talk about our practice. And here in America, something special is happening: that is our group. | z | 2 | |||
| 69-11-22V | Audio | I am so grateful with you to have chance to practice zazen in this, maybe, magnificent [laughs] building. | c | 2 | |||||
| 69-11-25V | Audio | Kat | I am very happy to be with you. | seems mostly Kat - edit | 2 | ||||
| 69-11-29V | Audio | … mind. Without this way-seeking mind, our practice does not work. We say "just to sit," or shikantaza. | z | 2 | |||||
| 69-11-30V | Audio | I think nowadays way-seeking mind is understood like something to do good in its—with a pure motivation—not for sake of success or not for | c | 2 | |||||
| 69-12-01V | Audio | Our way-seeking mind is buddha-mind. And our practice is—makes sense when you practice with buddha-mind, or way-seeking mind. | creek | 2 | |||||
| 69-12-02V | * | Audio | To accomplish something is difficult. And, you know, the difficulty you have moment after moment, which you have to work on, will continue | z | 2 | ||||
| 69-12-03V | Audio | I explained briefly about bodhisattva mind. And we have also bodhisattva practice—bodhisattva practice—we count six and | little sped? | 2 | |||||
| 69-12-04V | Audio | Our sesshin is already nearing to the end. As I said before, this sesshin will not come back again. So we must make best effort in our | little sped? | 2 | |||||
| 69-12-05N | Audio | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | nn level low | ||||||
| 69-12-21-AV | Audio | E-chant | Since I moved in this building, people ask me how do you feel [laughs]. But I haven't find myself in this building. | loud -audio no A or B | 2 | ||||
| 69-12-21-BU | ? | Everyone seeks for true happiness, but happiness cannot be true happiness if the happiness is not followed by perfect composure. | 2 |