Shunryu Suzuki Lecture Index
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Shunryu Suzuki Lecture Indexes by year. This page 1971.
1961-64------1965------1966------1967------1968-------1969------1970
| 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 |
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| 71-01-03V | Audio | Last Sunday I remember I talked about our surrounding, which is civilized world and busy world, and world of science and world of | z | 2 | |||||
| 71-01-10V | NAS * | LE | Audio | [What] were given about our practice referring to Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva? What is, you know—who is Avalokiteshvara? | z | 2 | |||
| 71-01-11V | fix this | check this | misdated-should be 70-01-11V | ||||||
| 71-01-16V | NAS * | LE | Audio | Something valuable [laughs]—not jewel or not candy, but something which is very valuable. You recite right now, you know, a verse on | z | 2 | |||
| 71-01-23V | NAS * | LE | Audio | Most of us, maybe, want to know what is self. This is a big problem. | z | 2 | |||
| 71-02-05V | * | LE | Audio | Purpose of sesshin is to be completely one with our practice. | z | 2 | |||
| 71-02-07V | Audio | chant | E-chant | This morning I said you must find yourself in each being. That is actually what [Ryōkai] Tōzan-zenji said: Don't try to seek yourself. | z | 2 | |||
| 71-02-09V | Audio | E-chant | I think, as Yoshimura-sensei told you the other night, Zen masters has some humorous [laughs], you know, element in their life. | z | 2 | ||||
| 71-02-12-AV | NAS | LE | Audio | chants | talks chants | This is the seventh day of the sesshin, and you came already too far. So you cannot, you know, give up [laughs, laughter]. | 2 lectures - saved one with all chants | 2 | |
| 71-02-12-BV | ? | The Sixth Patriarch said: "To dwell on emptiness and to keep calm mind is not zazen." | z | 2 | |||||
| 71-02-13V | Audio | E-chant | Good morning. We have been practicing sesshin, so I feel I didn't see some of you for a long, long time. We actually—"sesshin" means, you | z | 2 | ||||
| 71-02-20V | check this | Buddha's practice goes first. Our practice goes. We say, "our practice," but it is actually Buddha's practice. | A? short - n go back to orig? | 2 | |||||
| 71-02-20 | Audio | Tats Katagiri | A is ss, B1 and 2 tats kat | ||||||
| 71-02-23V | NAS | LE | Audio | It is more than six months [laughs] since … I came to Tassajara, and I was very much impressed, you know, of your practice at this time. | crk | 2 | |||
| 71-02-27V | * | Audio | The purpose of our practice is, of course, to maybe to have full enlightenment. Why we cannot have enlightenment is because | z | 2 | ||||
| 71-03-02V | Audio | There are various kinds of religion, but why we have to [have] religion—this question is answered not only by religious leaders | nnn? | 2 | |||||
| 71-03-09V | NAS | LE | Audio | One day a Chinese famous Zen master [Baso Dōitsu] was making a trip with a—with his disciple. A [flock of] geese, you know, fly—were | z | 2 | |||
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| 71-03-12U | It is not so easy to say what actual practice is, what Zen is. But anyway, I want to try. | 2 | |||||||
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| 71-06-05V | NAS * | LE | Audio | First of all, I want to explain, you know, I want you to understand what is our practice. You know, our practice we say, "just to sit." | z | 2 | |||
| 71-06-06V | Audio | Thank you very much … Yoshida-rōshi. I have heard of how important practice is to wear okesa. | low level at first | 2 | |||||
| 71-06-07V | NAS * | LE | Audio | Shikantaza, zazen, is—our zazen is just to be ourselves. Just to be ourselves. We should not expect anything, you know, just to be | trfc | 2 | |||
| 71-06-09V | NAS | LE | [I thought there was another day of sesshin, but today is our last day.] I think you, you know, have understood … what is zazen as | 2 | |||||
| 71-06-12V | Audio | We say "Zen Center student," you know. Or, we say "Zen Center." But it is—tonight—today—I want to make this kind of idea clear, | z only 2 | 2 | |||||
| 71-06-19U | Last Sunday I told you that, whatever religion you belong to, it doesn't matter when you to come and sit with us. That is because our way | 2 | |||||||
| 71-06-20V | Audio | This sesshin—we call it … okesa-sewing sesshin. | z only 2 | 2 | |||||
| 71-06-22V | * | Audio | I don't know where to start, you know, my talk, but anyway what I want to discuss with you tonight is how to, you know, apply our | z | 2 | ||||
| 71-07-02V | * | Audio | [Today I would like to] lecture about precepts. | muffled | 2 | ||||
| 71-07-06V | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | I want to continue my talk about precepts—Buddhist precepts. | muff | 2 | ||||
| 71-07-17V | Audio | [In my last lectures] I explain about our precepts. As you must have found out, "the precepts," we say, but it is nothing so unusual—it is | z | 2 | |||||
| 71-07-20V | NAS | LE | Audio | I wanted to see you earlier, but I was too busy so I couldn't come. What I want to talk about tonight is something—some idea or some | low level n | 2 | |||
| 71-07-21V | LE | Audio | We discussed already last night about what is something which we can experience or which we can understand, and what is something which | low lv n | 2 | ||||
| 71-07-22V | LE | Audio | This evening I want to explain about san-pachi-nenju. | low | 2 | ||||
| 71-07-24V | LE | Audio | This evening I want to talk about Buddhist practice. In one of the fascicle of Shōbōgenzō [Sansui-kyō] there—there is fascicle about virtue | low | 2 | ||||
| 71-07-25V | Audio | Tonight I want to explain the outline of our practice. … What I will talk about tonight is a kind of universal practice … which could be true | low | 2 | |||||
| 71-07-26V | LE | Audio | [The Blue Cliff Record, Case 61, FUKETSU'S "ONE PARTICLE OF DUST":] "Setting up the Dharma banner and establishing the Dharma teaching | low | 2 | ||||
| 71-07-29V | LE | Audio | As you know, at Tassajara Ryaku Fusatsu … may be observed as we observe it at Eihei-ji. I want to talk about Ryaku Fusatsu tonight. | low n | 2 | ||||
| 71-07-30V | LE | Audio | This evening we observed—this evening is called Fusatsu. As I explained last night, this ceremony actually started even before Buddha. | nn 2 is just end of 1 | 2 | ||||
| 71-08-00V | Audio | [Suzuki-rōshi dictating as he apparently translates an as-yet unidentified text:] "Therefore, no buddha attained enlightenment | w yvonne - but cut herhis early fewwords | 2 | |||||
| 71-08-01U | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | At the time of Yakusan—Yakusan Igen-daioshō—we—every morning we recite chant names of Buddha. Daikon Enō-daioshō.Daikon Enō | nnn | 2 | ||||
| 71-08-03V | LE | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | I want to explain why we become Buddhist [laughs] or why I myself became a Buddhist. | low muffled spedup on 2 espec | 2 | |||
| 71-08-04V | LE | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | Tomorrow is the Bodhidharma's Day. We will have—we have special ceremony this evening, and tomorrow also we will have special | low | 2 | |||
| 71-08-05V | LE | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | If you want to practice in its true sense so that you may not regret what you have been doing, it is necessary for you to—to have good | n low | 2 | |||
| 71-08-07V | LE | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | I want to discuss with you about, you know, how you study Zen. Zen is actually, in short, maybe, communication. | nn low | 2 | |||
| 71-08-08V | LE | Audio | Tonight I have nothing to talk about [laughs]. Empty hand. No book. I just appeared here [laughter]. But as Yakusan-zenji did, I wouldn't | very low volume | 2 | ||||
| 71-08-12V | * | LE | Audio | Tomorrow—tomorrow is the thirteenth, is it? In Japan tomorrow is … Obon. | n | 2 | |||
| 71-08-13V | LE | Audio | Last night, when we have question and answer, we came across the very important point. In the—in Japanese, we say | low | 2 | ||||
| 71-08-15V | LE | Audio | "When—when wind stops, flowers fall. When a bird sings, mountain become more calm." | nn | 2 | ||||
| 71-08-17V | LE | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | In—in my lecture, sometime I say everyone has buddha-nature, and whatever you do, that is, you know, Buddha's activity, I say. | 1 very low and 2 starts very low | 2 | |||
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| 71-08-21V | * | LE | Audio | talk & chants | Excuse me. [Laughs.] I feel rather stiff. Maybe I worked too hard. Since we have Tassajara and the city zendō, we are—our practice is | z | 2 | ||
| 71-10-09V | LE | Audio | [Suzuki-rōshi talking to his disciples about his illness.] | low | 2 | ||||
| 71-12-12-I | Cermny | funeral | s | ||||||
| 71-12-12-II | Cermny | funeral |