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        Shunryu Suzuki Lecture Indexes by year. This page 1970.
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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
70-01-04V NAS PDF LE Audio   E-chant In our zazen practice, we stop our thinking and we must be free from our emotional activity too.  z 2
70-01-11VA   PDF   Audio     We have ordination ceremony for Bill Kwong and Silas Hoadley after this lecture—immediately after this lecture.  I wanted to talk about n  A B on files - 1 2? Wind? 2
70-01-11VB   PDF   Audio check this   I wanted to talk about ordination ceremony, but I think it is pretty difficult to explain it. was 71-01-11V - check these out  
70-01-18V   PDF   Audio   chant In Japan now it is a season of typhoon. … When Dōgen-zenji went to China as a Japanese priest … he was given … last seat of the zendō. z 2
70-01-25V NAS PDF LE Audio chant E-chant The difference between so-called-it Therāvada Buddhism and Sarvāstivādian or Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna is very important   z 2
 70-01-31V * PDF   Audio     Our—our effort in our practice is quite different effort you make in our usual life. mic bumping sound 2
70-02-01-AV NAS * PDF LE Audio     How do you—how do you like zazen?  [Laughs, laughter.]  And maybe—maybe better to ask you how do you like brown rice? mic sound 2
70-02-01-BV   PDF   Audio   chant Sesshin is almost—sesshin has almost completed.  In this sesshin, we have learned many things. bit of ms 2
70-02-08V   PDF   Audio     Each time we—we start lecture, we recite "an unsurpassed, penetrating Buddha," and so on.  This is the essential—pointing at ms 2
70-02-22V   PDF   Audio     I think most of you participate one-week sesshin from tomorrow. …  I want to explain, you know, what is shikantaza. ms 2
70-02-23V   PDF   Audio     In this sesshin I suggested to practice shikantaza.  For—anyway for beginner, you know, it doesn't make much difference [laughs]. ms 2
70-02-25V   PDF   Audio     Yesterday I talked about … two ways of practice:  one is zazen practice under the guidance of the right teacher, and the other is how ms 2
70-02-28V * PDF   Audio   various chants Before we sit, six-day sesshin was too long.  But after we completed, it was too short [laughs, laughter].  I think you feel, you know, quite lots of chanting at end saved off on t 2
70-03-01V * PDF   Audio   intro Actually, because of my bad throat, I don't speak for people outside, you know.  I o- [partial word]—I hardly manage to keep my lecture in intro where is this? Yvonne and Silas-only this file lower kbps 2
70-03-08V NAS * PDF LE Audio   E-chant [Recently my thought is concentrated on the idea of emptiness.]  Whatever I say, I am actually talking about what is emptiness, n 2
70-03-15V   PDF   Audio     I think most of you are rather curious about what is Zen.  But Zen is actually our way of life, and zazen practice is actually as—like as you n 2
70-03-28V   PDF   Audio     Way-seeking mind is the most important.  When you have some difficulty in your everyday life … there you will have chance to arise n 2
70-03-29V NAS * PDF LE Audio     How do you feel now?  [Laughs.]  Excuse me.  I thought of funny thing right now [laughs].  I feel as if, you know—I don't know how you feel loud n 2
70-04-12V   PDF   Audio     The April—April the eighth is the day we celebrate Buddha's birthday in China and Japan. z 2
70-04-25V   PDF   ??       from A n B ? See below 2
70-04-25AV       Audio   Cermny [Verbatim transcript not available.  (Sound problem.)] 1-op-ng cer page st -sr others tlk 2-sr tlk  
70-04-25B           Cermny   more ceremony  
70-04-26U   PDF         OPENING OF PAGE ST BLDG   2
70-04-28V NAS PDF LE Audio     Since Tatsugami-rōshi came, you must have heard Dōgen-zenji's name so many times. z 2
70-05-02-AV   PDF   Audio     Right now you—your feeling has changed from the feeling you had in your sitting. z 2
70-05-02-BV   PDF   Audio   E-chant First of all, a sincere—our practice—sincere practice—our sincere practice is not, you know, practice just for himself. z 2
70-05-03V * PDF   Audio     To have—to have sincere practice means to have sincere concern with people.  So our practice is actually based on our humanity. z 2
70-05-05V   PDF   Audio   E-chant Once a time of one thousand or two thousand is not so long time in comparison to our idea of time. z 2
70-05-10V   PDF   Audio   E-chant This morning I want to reflect on our long, long practice, which we started maybe more than ten years ago.  The purpose of Zen Center creek? 2
70-05-17V * PDF   Audio   E-chant This morning I want to talk about Zen—Zen precepts.  As you know, precepts is not—real meaning of precepts is not just rules.  It is rather our way of our life. z 2
70-05-24V   PDF   Audio   E-chant Yvonne Good morning.  Actually this morning I asked Yoshida-rōshi to give some talk to you, but as he—as she has just arrived from Japan, and traffic 2
70-05-27V SDK PDF   Audio   Reb intro [Sandōkai Lecture]  I am so grateful to have chance to discuss about or to talk about Sandōkai. reb intro says may25 made other time? Crk 2
70-05-30V SDK PDF   Audio     [Sandōkai Lecture]  I explained in last lecture about the title of this scripture, Sandōkai—what does it mean. crk 2
70-06-01V SDK PDF   Audio     [Sandōkai Lecture]  I want to know the feedback.  [Laughs, laughter.]  Oh my.  [Laughs.]  After all, it's better to follow one character after z 2
70-06-03V SDK PDF   Audio intro E-chant [Sandōkai Lecture]  Last night [lecture?], I explained ri and ji. sped up - last part less 2
70-06-06V SDK PDF   Audio   E-chant [Sandōkai Lecture]  Purpose of study of Buddhism is to have perfect understanding of things, and subjectively to understand ourselves. z 2
70-06-10V SDK PDF   Audio     [Sandōkai Lecture]  In my last lecture, although I did not literally explain about those sentences, but I almost explained about it. z  2
70-06-13V SDK PDF   Audio     [Sandōkai Lecture]  Next—as we have big blackboard, I want to explain those characters. crk 2
70-06-17V SDK PDF   Audio     [Sandōkai Lecture]  In last lecture I explained the everything—independency of everything. crk 2
70-06-20V SDK PDF   Audio     [Sandōkai Lecture]  First I will explain the two terms mei and an, "brightness" and "darkness." crk 2
70-06-25V SDK PDF   Audio     [Sandōkai Lecture]  Now we are still talking about the reality from the light of independency. crk 2
70-06-27V SDK PDF   Audio     [Sandōkai Lecture]  Today's lecture will be about how we observe everything—how we understand everything and how we should treat crk 2
70-06-28U SDK * PDF         [Sandōkai Lecture]  You should sit zazen with your whole body; your spine, mouth, toes, mudrā.  [Transcript is not verbatim, been edited.]   2
70-07-04V SDK PDF   Audio     [Sandōkai Lecture]  Tonight and tonight lecture and one more lecture will be the last concluding lecture for Sandōkai. crk 2
70-07-06V SDK PDF   Audio     [Sandōkai Lecture]  Here it says:  Ayumi wo susumure ba gonnon ni ara zu. z 2
70-07-08V * PDF   Audio     [Ekō Lecture]  I want to explain ekō. crk 2
70-07-10V   PDF   Audio     [Ekō Lecture]  [The first chanting is chanted] in Buddha hall. nnn very low at end 2
70-07-11V   PDF   Audio   E-chant [Ekō Lecture]  Last night I explained  …  already about arhat.  The second sūtra—second sūtra reciting of Prajñā Pāramitā Sūtra is for arhats. crk 2
70-07-12V NAS PDF LE Audio     [Ekō Lecture]  In the second recitation of the Prajñā Pāramitā Sūtra, we dedicate for the—to the arhats and many various sages in the—i z 2
70-07-13V   PDF   Audio     [Ekō Lecture]  Tonight I want to explain the third ekō.  The third sūtra we chant in every morning is Sandōkai—Sandōkai. crk 2
70-07-15V   PDF   Audio     [Ekō Lecture]  The last chanting will be the chanting for the—for monks, you know, or students who is related—who was—who passed crk 2
70-07-19V * PDF   Audio   E-chant After—after forty days of my leaving from here I feel I am a stranger to the building, not to you.   z 2
70-07-26V   PDF   Audio   E-chant This morning, I want to talk about our practice, as usual [laughs],  as—especially when we have various teachers.   trfc 2
70-07-28V   PDF   Audio   E-chant This evening I want to talk about some problems you have when you come to Zen Center. z 2
70-07-31V NAS PDF LE Audio   sesshin rules-DW What he—she meant is if you stand up, you know, with painful legs or sleeping legs, you will [laughs]—it will be dan- [partial word]—dangerous [laughs, laughter].  little sped up-DW at end answ q 2
70-08-01V   PDF   Audio     In this sesshin, I have been explaining the context of our practice and, at the same time, the meaning of rules and precepts.  z 2
70-08-02V NAS PDF LE Audio     In Japan, a terrible fire broke out, and some hotel was burned down, and many sightseeing people killed in the fire. 1 change at 29:55 2
70-08-02-IIV                  
70-08-03U   PDF         [Verbatim transcript not available.  (Sound problem.)]    2
70-08-03-II                  
70-08-04V   PDF   Audio   E-chant In—in everyday life, to observe precepts and, in our practice, to continue our zazen looks like different, but actually it is same.  z 2
70-08-09V   PDF   Audio     Paul Discoe and [1 word unclear] Reb Anderson, who have come here to be ordained as a disciple of the Buddha.  Listen to—listen calmly  nn 2
70-08-16-AV   PDF   Audio   chanting … restore the Buddhist teaching in its original way.  So that you don't know anything about Buddhism is very good [laughs].  nn redivide a and b 2
70-08-16-B   PDF   Audio     [No verbatim transcript available.  (Sound problem.)]  nn see above 2
70-08-23V   PDF         [No verbatim transcript available.  (Sound problem.)]    2
70-08-25-AV   PDF   Audio   E-chant As some of—some of you may know, tomorrow I am leaving San Francisco for—for a while and coming back December first or second. z 2
70-08-25-BU   PDF         I am so grateful to have this ordination ceremony for you, our old students.  This is actually the second time ... the second ordination   2
70-12-13V   PDF   Audio   E-chant In this trip, I studied in Japan [laughs], you know, and I found out many things, and many things happened. z 2
70-12-20V   PDF   Audio   chant In my last trip to Japan I found out many things.  The feeling I had there was—they were—you know, Japanese people nowadays are mv zendo - need trim with intros n cer 2
70-12-23V   PDF   Audio intro chant ALL Zazen practice, for us, more and more become important. n low level-MV womn Kwong-intr-chant-SR 2
70-12-27V * PDF   Audio     Dōgen-zenji said sickness does not, you know, destroy—destroy people, but no practice will destroy people.  z 2