Shunryu Suzuki Lecture Index
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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 | |
| 61-12-00-wb ZC | Teacher and Disciple - Emptiness does not mean annihilation | see 62-03-00 | 4 | ||||||
| 62-00-00-BCR.3U ZC | LE | [This is an abbreviated version of the SSL database] | this is 62-10-wb but there are two versions - see Les | ||||||
| 62-00-BCR.6UX SFZC | this is 62-11-wb | ||||||||
| 61-12-00-wb | same | True Zen - If you want to meditate, you must have instruction of right teacher, | also 01to09 in one file | 9 | |||||
| 62-02-00-wb | same | What is Zen? - To study Zen is to particularize the essence of mind | 9 | ||||||
| 62-03-00-wb | same | Square Zen - The idea of emptiness does not mean annihilation. | see 61-12-00. This is an abbreviated version. | 9 | |||||
| 62-04-00-wb | same | A Buddha Story - In an old scripture told by Buddha there are four lands, | 9 | ||||||
| 62-05-00-wb | same | What is the Law - One day the World Honored One mounted the pulpit, | 9 | ||||||
| 62-06-00-wb1 | same | On Zazen - While you do zazen you will come to understand yourself completely… | 1 and 2 on same file | 9 | |||||
| 62-06-00-wb2 | with above | same | The Shinsanshiki Ceremony - On May 20th Roshi Suzuki was installed as Master of Sokoji… | 9 | |||||
| 62-07-00-wb | same | On Obon - Originality and universality are the same thing for a sincere student. | 9 | ||||||
| 62-08-00-wb | same | To Tame a Tiger - A government official named Shiba visited Hyabujo Mountain and was taken by the great beauty there. | 9 | ||||||
| 62-09-00-wb | same | Bodhidharma's Zen - The Emperor Wu built many temples, | 9 | ||||||
| 62-10-00-wb | LE | BCR3-The principal character in this model subject is Baso Dōitsu | was 62-00-bcr3 | 2 | |||||
| 62-11-00-wb | LE | BCR6-Um-mon Bun-en (Yun-men Wen-yen) was a disciple of Sep-pō | was 62-00-bcr6 | 2 | |||||
| 62-12-00-wb | LE | Religious Activity - The more we attempt to manage religious activity, the more we lose our fundamental way. | 2 | ||||||
| 63-01-00-wb | LE | Blue Cliff Record No. 14 and 15: A traveling monk asked Ummon-zenji: "What is this first teaching?" | 2 | ||||||
| 63-02-13-wb | LE | BCR-18 - Nanyo Echu Kokushi was a famous disciple of the Sixth Patriarch | 9 | ||||||
| 63-03-00-wb | LE | Blue Cliff Record No. 19: Gutei's Lifting up One Finger. Gutei lived in a small hermitage to be free from the fierce persecution | 2 | ||||||
| 63-04-00-wb | LE | BCR20- Zen may be said to be the practice of cultivating our mind to make it deep and open enough to accept the various seeds of ideas | 2 | ||||||
| 63-07-00-wb | LE | BCR25-Engo introducing the subject said, "If a man comes to a standstill at some stage, | 2 | ||||||
| 63-09-00-wb | LE | BCR30-Attention! A monk asked Jōshū, "I hear by rumor that you were at one time closely associated with Nansen. | 2 | ||||||
| 63-11-00-wb | LE | BCR36-Attention! One day Cho-sha went for a walk. When he returned to the gate, the gate-keeper asked, | 2 | ||||||
| 63-12-00-wb | LE | BCR40-Attention! While conversing with Nansen, the official Rikko said, "Sōjō said that heaven and earth and I are the same root | 2 | ||||||
| 64-02-00-wb | LE | BCR46-Attention! Kyo-sei asked a monk, "What is the sound outside the door?" The monk said, "It is the sound of raindrops." | 2 | ||||||
| 64-03-00-wb | LE | BCR49-Attention! Sancho asked Seppo: "What [Why?] does a mysterious golden-scaled carp escaped from the fishing net cast?" | 2 | ||||||
| 64-04-00-wb | LE | BCR52-Jōshū (personal name: Sramanera [?]) of this subject was a native of Northern China. | 2 | ||||||
| 64-05-00-wb | LE | BCR53-Introducing Engo said, "Obtaining the sole existing independent body, the total free activity takes place." | 2 | ||||||
| 64-06-00-wb | LE | BCR51-Seppo was a good example of a well-trained Zen Master. "Three times a visitor to Tosu and nine times an attendant to Tozai | 2 | ||||||
| 64-08-00-wbW | LE | Zen Center's annual week Sesshin [Trudy Dixon's summary of SS sesshin lectures] | 2 | ||||||
| 64-11-00-wb | LE | BCR73-Introducing, he said: "The true preaching of Dharma goes beyond preaching or not | 2 | ||||||
| 64-12-00-wb | LE | BCR75-The treasure sword always is present [beyond oneness and duality]. | 2 | ||||||
| 65-02-00-wb | LE | BCR82-Introducing, Engo said: Only a man with open eyes knows the catgut line of the fishing rod. | 2 | ||||||
| 65-04-00-wb | LE | BCR84-This Model Subject is about the Yuima-gyō (the Vimalakīrti-nirdesha Sūtra). | 2 | ||||||
| 65-07-00-wb | LE | pdf added 8-09 | BCR86-Introducing, Engo said: To control the world without omitting a single feather, to stop all the streams of passion without losing a single | 2 | |||||
| 65-07-08U | TD | LE | Prajna Paramita Lecture - I want to still continue to speak about topsy-turvy views. | 9 | |||||
| 65-07-15U | TD | LE | Prajna Paramita Lecture - This morning I want to explain the attainment… | 9 | |||||
| 65-07-22U | TD | LE | Prajna Paramita Lecture - We are studying now, the sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, in the evening, and Prajna, | 9 | |||||
| 65-07-26-AV | Audio | E-Chant | A talk is always—the conclusion of my talk is always why we should practice zazen. This is not—my talk is not just casual talk. | audio file is ABC | 2 | ||||
| 65-07-26-DV | Audio | Recently I find many problems concerning to religious problem, such as psychology or LSD or the problem of how to bring about complete | z | 2 | |||||
| 65-07-27-AV | Audio | For a long time after Renaissance, you have forgotten the value of religion. You try to exchange religion for, you know, science and | traffic | 2 | |||||
| 65-07-27-BV SFZC | Audio | In our way of Zen, we emphasize the way-seeking mind—way-seeking mind. This is, in another word, bodhisattva-mind or way-seeking mind. | traffic | 2 | |||||
| 65-07-28-AN | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | ||||||||
| 65-07-28-BN | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | ||||||||
| 65-07-28-CV | Audio | fixed 8-09 | If you understand bodhisattva-mind in dualistic way, it is not right understanding. few words before this "The Bodhisattva mind which is | traffic - | 2 | ||||
| 65-07-28-DV | Audio | B-intro | I cannot think of anything to talk [about] for this evening. So if you have some question please ask me. | n | 2 | ||||
| 65-07-29-AV | Audio | B-intro | Purpose of practice is to have direct experience of buddha-nature. | traffic | 2 | ||||
| 65-07-29-BV | Audio | Student A: Why—why do we put our hands like this? And then—is—is that the best—is that—why? [Laughter.] | z | 2 | |||||
| 65-07-29-CV | Audio | B-intro | Suzuki-rōshi: Do you have some question—some more question? Student A: Reverend Suzuki, would you please talk about what the Buddhists think about killing …? | traffic | 2 | ||||
| 65-07-30-AV | Audio | bell | Don't be bothered by your mind. | AB one file - sep - don't see where yet | 2 | ||||
| 65-07-30-BV | see above | B-intro-AB | I have to give the conclusion to my talk for this sesshin. The science or philosophy is like a dissection. | see above | 2 | ||||
| 65-07-30-CV | * | Audio | B-intro | If you have a question, please give me. I want to answer about what I told you during sesshin. | traffic | 2 | |||
| 65-07-30-DV | Audio | Suzuki-rōshi: Do you have some question? Student A: Sensei, D. T. Suzuki wrote that "Zen was religion of the will." | traffic | 2 | |||||
| 65-07-31-AX | see 66-07-23N | n DB intro, SS & Sumi,sameas660723N | |||||||
| 65-07-31-BX | files were 1 n 2 joined -B isendofA-Sumi | ||||||||
| 65-07-31-C | Audio | E-Chant | [no letter on E-chant file] | [check this out] | |||||
| 65-08-00 | chant | No Suzuki-speaker, chant-in Other Folder | |||||||
| 65-08-01 | |||||||||
| TS-65-08-01 | TS = Togen Sumi | ||||||||
| 65-08-05U | TD | LE | Prajna Paramita Lecture - I want to give the conclusion to this Prajna Paramita Sutra this morning. | 9 | |||||
| 65-08-12U | ZM-25 | LE | Posture - I want to explain about our posture we take. | 9 | |||||
| 65-08-19U | ZM-92 | LE | Water - If you go to Japan and visit Eiheiji monetary,… before you enter the monastery you will the small bridge called, "Han Sak Kyo" | 9 | |||||
| 65-08-26U | ZM-121 | Treasure of Life - In Zen poem says, "after the wind stop I see the flower falling…" | 9 | ||||||
| 65-08-28-AV | LE | Audio | B-intro | Confucius said the most visible is the something invisible. | traffic | 2 | |||
| 65-08-28-BV | Audio | B-intro | B-cmnt | I have nothing in my mind. [Laughs.] | traffic | 2 | |||
| 65-09-00UX | same as 65-12-16 | ||||||||
| 65-09-09U | ZM-76 | Forgetting Ourself - The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. | 9 | ||||||
| 65-09-16U | ZM-102 | Everything Changes - The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transedency [means transience] or change. Everything changes is the basic teaching. | 9 | ||||||
| 65-10-07U | ZM-123 | Zen Experience - I am so glad to see you again. For two weeks I studied many things and I found that to have so many friends in | 9 | ||||||
| 65-10-14 | ZM-46 | Nothing Special - I don't feel to speak after zazen. I feel the practice of zazen is enough. | was dated wrong as 16 [14=thurs] | 9 | |||||
| 65-10-16-AU | It is a great joy to practice sesshin with you in this way. | 2 | |||||||
| 65-10-16-BU | We have finished sesshin with unusual results. | 2 | |||||||
| 65-10-21U | TD | As you know, in Buddhism there are many schools. But you can classify Buddhism into Mahayana and Hinayana schools. | 9 | ||||||
| 65-10-28U | TD | In the past, in Hinayana practice, in the first stage, we still have consistent thinking faculties. | 9 | ||||||
| 65-11-00-AU | Buddhism is very philosophical, and sometimes intellectual and logical. | 2 | |||||||
| 65-11.00-BU | Almost all of you have not practiced Zen so long, but I think you have made great progress. | 2 | |||||||
| 65-11-04U | ZM-29 | Swinging Door - When we practice our mind always follow our breathing. | 9 | ||||||
| 65-11-11U | ZM-21 | Beginner's Mind - People say, "To study Zen is difficult," but there is some misunderstanding why it is difficult. | was 11-10 but 11-11 = thurs | 9 | |||||
| 65-11-18U | ZM-36 | Self Nourishment - When you get up early in the morning by alarm, I think you don't feel so well. | was 11-17 but 11-18 = thurs | 9 | |||||
| 65-12-02U | ZM-43 | Bowing - To bow is very important, one of the important practice. | 9 | ||||||
| 65-12-09U | TD | The Middle Way - Here we recite the sutra just once, but in the Zen Center we recite three times. | 9 | ||||||
| KR-65-12-11 | intro | KR=Katagiri Roshi, Dainin Katagiri | intro here out of place??? 12-07?? | ||||||
| 65-12-11-AU | Audio | Most of you are beginners, so it may be rather difficult for you to understand why we practice zazen or meditation in this way. | n | 2 | |||||
| 65-12-11-BVU | Audio | Buddhism has many annual layers like a big tree. It is our tradition to respect those efforts our patriarchs have made for more than 2000 years. | nn | 2 | |||||
| 65-12-16U | Railway Track - The purpose of my talk is not to give you some intellectual understanding but to express just appreciation of our practice. | 9 | |||||||
| 65-12-23U | ZM-75 | Limiting Your Activity - In our practice we have no special object of worship. | 9 | ||||||
| 65-12-30U | ZM-116 | Nothing - I found out that it is necessary… absolutely necessary to believe in nothing. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-00-00-AE | ZM-110 | READINESS, MINDFULNESS (p110 ZMBM) [Can't find elsewhere.] In the Prajna Paramita Sutra the most important point, of course, is the idea of emptiness | |||||||
| 66-00-00-BE | ZM-113 | EMPTINESS (p113 ZMBM) [Can't find elsewhere.] "When you study Buddhism you should have a general house cleaning of your mind." | |||||||
| 66-01-06U | ZM-118 | Double Moon - Already we feel night become shorter and shorter. When I come here Dogen Zenji says, even though it is midnight, dawn is here. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-01-13U | TD | Buddhism is, maybe, rather difficult to understand for you because Buddhism is not monotheism or pantheism. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-01-20U | ZM-104 | Quality of Being - The purpose of zazen is to attain the freedom of our being, physically and mentally. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-01-21-AV | Audio | B-intro | SHUSHŌGI, Sections 11–17: The next chapter which we will learn is about precepts. | n | 2 | ||||
| 66-01-21-BN | Audio | B-E-cmnt | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | n | |||||
| 66-01-22N | Audio | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | nn | ||||||
| 66-01-26U | ZM-38 | Horse Sense - In our scripture it is said that there are four kinds of horse. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-02-09U | ZM-55 | Bread - In India there were many schools. We count major school…we count six major schools, | 9 | ||||||
| 66-02-17U | ZM-83 | Constancy - The message for us for today was "cultivate your own spirit." It says there on the calendar. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-02-18-A | [Thought to be the end of previous lecture SR-66-01-22.] | ||||||||
| 66-02-18-BVX | misdated - moved to 67-11-06 - KPFA intv | ||||||||
| 66-02-24U | ZM-57 | Zen and Excitement - My master passed away when I was thirty-three so after his death I became pretty busy. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-03-03U | ZM-65 | The Joy of Giving - The precept today is giving, the joy of giving. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-03-13-AV | Audio | GENJŌ KŌAN, 1–3: Good morning. This lecture is for advanced student in his practice, but I think this lecture will help you even | n - weird testing sounds brief at 2:20 | 2 | |||||
| 66-03-13-BV | Audio | Claude Comment | Heart Sutra | SHUSHŌGI, Section 1: Shushōgi … consist of various teachings from Shōbōgenzō written by Dōgen-zenji. From 95 fascicle of his work, we | tape fixed, chant, commnt added-4-14-10-start was in mid | 2 | |||
| 66-03-26-AU | Audio | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | nn | 2 | |||||
| 66-03-26-BN | Audio | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | nn | ||||||
| 66-05-25V | Audio | GENJŌ KŌAN, 1–2: The secret of all the teaching of Buddhism is how to live on each moment. Moment after moment we have to obtain the | z | 2 | |||||
| 66-05-26V | Audio | GENJŌ KOAN, 5-13: Firewood turns into ash, and it does not turn into firewood again…. In this paragraph, he [Dōgen-zenji] taught us the absolute | z | 2 | |||||
| 66-06-00U | [The following section is compiled from Suzuki-rōshi's sesshin and Sunday lectures to complete the discussion of Buddhist precepts.] | 2 | |||||||
| 66-06-19-AV | Audio | GENJŌ KOAN, 1-11: … The first paragraph is the framework of whole Buddhism. | traffic-informal talking at first - class? | 2 | |||||
| 66-06-19-BV | Audio | GENJŌ KOAN, 7-9: … Here he talks about life and death. But this life and death does not just mean the problem of life and death. By "life | z | 2 | |||||
| 66-06-19-CV | Audio | Last time I explained the ten prohibitory precepts…. Those precepts look like quite common precepts and nothing—nothing special. | little low | 2 | |||||
| 66-06-19-DV | Audio | GENJŌ KOAN, 11-13: When the truth does not fill our body and mind, we think that—we think that we have enough. Here he says, even though we are not | low | 2 | |||||
| 66-06-23U | ZM-62 | When we sit in this way our mind is calm and quite simple. | 9 | ||||||
| 66-07-00 | TD | In the last paragraph of Ashishoji [Shushogi?] is one of our scriptures complied in Meiji [right?] period by various Zen masters out of | 9 | ||||||
| 66-07-07 | |||||||||
| 66-07-23N | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] R Baker intro Sumi and Suzuki | n same as 65-07-31 - check to see which | |||||||
| 66-08-15-AV | Audio | … among many instructions about how to sit: to keep your back straight, pull your chin, and about mudrā in your hand. The most important thing is, we say, to stop thinking or to keep your mind on your breathing. | n | 2 | |||||
| 66-08-15-BV | Audio | [2-3 words] those who cannot appreciate the—the food we are serving [?] to you cannot appreciate our teaching in its true sense. | nn | 2 | |||||
| 66-08-15-CV | with above | [It is necessary] for us to think everything out, or else we—we find it pretty difficult to have firm conviction in our understanding and | nn - bc one file | 2 | |||||
| 66-08-15-DV | Audio | B-E-cmnt | The first day of the sesshin is almost finished…. We are now coping with the problem of causality. | n | 2 | ||||
| 66-08-15-WV | B-notes | Richard Baker commenting on tape confusion and summarizing missed part of Suzuki talk | File dated 660818D | 2 | |||||
| 66-08-16V | ? | Our mind should—should not be stagnated or in agitation. Our mind should be calm. And to be calm does not mean to be stagnant. | 2 | ||||||
| 66-08-17N | Audio | [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] | n traffic and weird | ||||||
| 66-08-18-AV | Audio | B-cmnt | [Lecture reconstructed by tape operator.] This is the fourth day of our sesshin. We have—the first three days, we have had a pretty | AB seem one lecture-cut repeat from B | 2 | ||||
| 66-08-18-BV | with above | SHŌBŌGENZŌ "Sokushin-zebutsu": Before translating original text, I want to make sure … [of] our traditional way of understanding of | with above | 2 | |||||
| 66-08-18-C | n | ||||||||
| 66-08-19-AV | Audio 1 | Audio 2 | SHŌBŌGENZŌ "Sokushin-zebutsu": … It may be better to start it from the beginning of his answer to the question given by … a monk who | 1&2-n A2 has sep briefsrcommentat end | 2 | ||||
| 66-08-19-BV | Don't be attached to your attainment as a result of … past effort. Or don't be attached to the refreshed stage you attained mechanically. | 2 | |||||||
| 66-08-19-CV | Audio | This fascicle of [Shōbōgenzō] "Sokushin-zebutsu," "Mind Itself Is Buddha"—in this fascicle, he [Dōgen-zenji] is giving us instruction [on] | n slow | 2 | |||||
| 66-08-19-DV | Audio | I think you … can easily understand this subject [Blue Cliff Records 45]: "Attention! A monk asked Jōshū: 'All the dharma lead up to the one, but what do | |||||||