…this is a very extraordinary thing because the sessions in Zen Meditation out at the end of the valley are tough and Mr Suzuki stands no nonsense. This is a very, very I don't quite want to say serious that's the wrong word because Zen Isn't serious.…

…go for a discipline under other and more traditional offices. This is something new this has a new flavor but this man Suzuki is doing wonders for young people in San Francisco. The difficulty you see is with people who get their introduction to mysticism…

…in the same way, I would think Krishnamurti has a comparable influence, although he doesn't act as the leader of an ongoing community as Suzuki does. This is a more or less touch and go thing: a few meetings a few encounters and that's the end of it.…

…which means samyak perfect. Our word sam samyak comes eventually. From the sanskrit samyak, perfect view. There is a wonderful story about Suzuki who was giving a course on Buddhism at the University of London and he said: if you want to know the whole…

…beyond the open screens and the smoke of aloeswood incense hangs in the air. When I was about seventeen, I was still reading Suzuki on Zen and trying to practice some form of Buddhist Yoga, zazen or satipatthana, and simply couldn't make up my mind which…

…and come on like I was holier than thou. It just didn't work in the Zen idea of nothing special you mentioned that Suzuki sometimes would sign his letters no special person, bujinen. It seems to be the finest antidote to the holier than thou. Oh yes,…

…do you feel that way about yourself do you feel that you're nothing special? Oh I do it in a slightly different way than Suzuki. I thought so. Everybody knows, it's a matter of public knowledge that I'm a rascal, that I drink too much, that I sleep…

Just this month a new book has been published by Dr D t Suzuki called mysticism, Christian and Buddhist. I'm not intending to devote this program to a review of this book as such but I call attention to it. Incidentally it's published by harper's in New…

…which means samyak perfect. Our word sam summation comes eventually from the sanskrit samyak perfect view. There's a wonderful story about Suzuki. He was giving a course on Buddhism at the University of Hawaii and he was going through the four noble truths…

…called lietza, and he had the reputation of being able to ride on the wind. Of course that's metaphorical. And so when Suzuki was asked what it's like to have the experience of satori or enlightenment, he once said: it is like ordinary everyday…

…the open screens and where the smoke of aloeswood incense hangs in the air. When I was about seventeen, I was still reading Suzuki on Zen and trying to practice some form of Buddhist Yoga, zazen or satipatthana, and simply couldn't make up my mind which…

…and come on like I. Was holier than thou. It just didn't work in the Zen idea of nothing special you mentioned that Suzuki sometimes would sign his letters no special person, bujinin, it seems to be the finest antidote to the holier than thou oh yes,…

…do you feel that way about yourself do you feel that you're nothing special? Oh I do it in a slightly different way than Suzuki. I thought so. Everybody knows it's a matter of public knowledge that I'm a rascal, that I drink too much, that I sleep…

…beyond the open screens and the smoke of aloeswood incense hangs in the air. When I was about seventeen, I was still reading Suzuki on Zen and trying to practice some form of Buddhist Yoga zazen or satipatana and simply couldn't make up my mind which…

…on like I was holier than thou. It just didn't work. In the Zen the Zen idea of nothing special you mentioned that Suzuki sometimes would sign his letters no special person, bujinen, it seems to be the finest antidote to the holier than thou. Oh yes,…

…that way about yourself? Do you feel that you're that you're nothing special? Oh I do it in a slightly different way than Suzuki. Everybody knows it's a matter of public knowledge that I'm a rascal, that I drink too much, that I sleep with too many…

…some time of the day. This refreshes the intellectual life, this gives it a zip and a quality, so that as you begin like Suzuki, old d t Suzuki, he was a great intellectual, but he practiced scholarship in the same natural way that one would sail a…

…This refreshes the intellectual life, this gives it a zip and a quality, so that as you begin like Suzuki, old d t Suzuki, he was a great intellectual, but he practiced scholarship in the same natural way that one would sail a boat or watch clouds,…

…hate it. They say this is this is of no value at all this is just and they call you a popularizer and they called Suzuki a popularizer because he didn't put in the right kind of footnotes. He was a little vague about some things and but he had…

…of the cosmos, there is a tendency to do away with the dualism of the spiritual and the physical. I'll never forget when b t Suzuki was at the world congress of faiths in London in 1936, we had a kind of final round up lecture in queen's hall and…

…ideal. Well, one person got up and another person got up and delivered themselves of incredible quantities of hot air. Finally little old Suzuki got to his feet and said: I am asked to talk about supreme spiritual ideal now I am a countryman from very…

…of it in the second volume of Feng. I think that's the best place to go. There is a book, a little book that Suzuki wrote, called the essence of Buddhism, published in London by the Buddhist Society, and that also is an account of it, but it's harder…

…like dancing. They are expressive of attainment, of the attainless attainment. So here's another hang up for you when you go to Mr Suzuki, who runs the Zen center, he's a good disciple of dogen, who brought Zen, a certain School of Zen, to Japan in the…

…lose he has you've defined him as the teacher, so he sits back and relaxes, he can do anything and not lose Face, like Suzuki, who can take forever to answer a question or be fast asleep and be mistaken for being in deep samadhi. And because, after…

…oxygen masks and present it to a fish, say have a drag. They're so happy, you see. So you know the famous story: when Suzuki was asked what is it like to have satori, he said: well it's just like ordinary everyday experience except about two inches off…

…Zen is spiritual ophthalmology. Another thing that appeals very much to western students about Zen is that they've read their Zen from Suzuki and from some of my writings and from r h Blythe, and these people present a rather different kind of Zen from…

…separate individuals, and here is you who you formerly thought was merely confronting these other people. When the Great Dr D t Suzuki was asked what is it like to be enlightened he said: it's just like ordinary everyday experience, except about two inches…

…this fascination in the west? Well it's due very largely to the way in which certain people have presented Zen to the west, notably Suzuki and r h Blythe. They have made a great use of the Zen story or the anecdotes. There is a book of Zen Anecdotes,…

…It has a. It just leaves you wondering, well what's this meant to convey? And the answer, of course is that Suzuki explains most carefully: it's not a symbolical tale. In other words you're not supposed to understand that bamboos symbolize something in…

…can't see. It and you go looking over there there there there there and you're carrying it. You see it's like that. And so Suzuki has explained that that's the way it is, that once when Saburo Hasegawa who was a Great Japanese painter, was at a dinner…

…more or less the principle it works on. Now people who go to Japan to study Zen have read about it in the writings of Suzuki and r h Blythe and myself, and very often they're in for a curious shock. They suppose that Zen people are kind of quakerish,…

…in Asia through western intervention, interest and so on and this is particularly true in Japan. It all started with Suzuki giving his fascinating command for everybody, making Zen, bringing out its great profundity. So people came over and began asking…

…on their metal. And now I want to discuss a thing that a problem that was raised by both r h Blythe and d t Suzuki as to whether Zen as one finds it in Japan today is rather much behind the times, ill suited to western assimilation and even for…

…struck me as a student of these things that Zen got very close to essentials. This was a first impression because the way Suzuki presented it, it was the direct way, it was the sudden way of seeing right through into one's nature. Now at this moment,…

…I don't know whether the priest told them, but it is so interesting the way they've got this free walk. You have a sense Suzuki put it this way: a Zen Monk is a concentration of energy which is available immediately for anything. This is likened in one…

…important, it can mean a fuss, it can mean affectation, so that a person who might be described as buji in Japanese, no Ji Suzuki once wrote me an autograph and he wrote the three characters. Buji Nin, which means a no fuss man, and buji Nin is a…

…Yulan's history of Chinese Philosophy, and I think that's the best place to go. There is a book that a little book that Suzuki wrote, called the essence of Buddhism, published in London by the Buddhist Society, and that also is an account of it. But…

…become weightless here? I said a little while ago that the person who really accepts transience begins to feel weightless. When Suzuki was asked what is it like to have experienced satori enlightenment he said it's just like ordinary everyday experience, but…

…funny situation and he puts you in a quandary expecting spontaneous action from you, don't try to hurry. I know I've watched Suzuki wait a whole minute before answering. But he doesn't hesitate, he's not at all embarrassed by this wait, and he can answer…

…an hour in terms of pure quintessence of hot air, vague, vast, wild aspirations with no concrete content whatsoever. Finally little Suzuki got up with his beetling eyebrows and said: I am supposed tonight to talk about supreme spiritual ideal. I'm not sure…

…to oneself in a Split and divided way good I against bad me. That is profoundly phony and I think this was what Suzuki was getting at by his uh suddenly uh ceasing to talk about anything spiritual and talking only about his house and his Garden.…

…course that's metaphorical. We say walking on air. Walking on air never a care something is making me sing. And so when Suzuki was asked what it's like to have the experience of satori or enlightenment, he once said it is like ordinary everyday…

…steps because they're not sequential, they're all simultaneous. Once upon a time there was a very, very Great Japanese Scholar, d t Suzuki, who was giving a lecture at the University of Hawaii on Buddhism and was explaining he'd come to the fourth noble…

…this is a very extraordinary thing because the sessions in Zen Meditation out at the end of the valley are tough and Mr Suzuki stands no nonsense. This is a very, very I don't quite want to say serious that's the wrong word because Zen Isn't serious…

…wouldn't go for discipline under other and more traditional auspices. This is something new, this has a new flavor. But this man Suzuki, is doing wonders for young people in San Francisco. The difficulty you see is with people who get their introduction to…

…in the same way, I would think Krishnamurti has a comparable influence, although he doesn't act as the leader of an ongoing community as Suzuki does. This is a more or less touch and go thing: a few meetings a few encounters and that's the end of it.…

…learn how to include thinking in spontaneity, but it's subordinate to spontaneity. That's when I wrote that thing in the bulletin about Suzuki and ended with a quotation in which he described his own life as a thinker because he was an intellectual he was…

…at it. So what is called as the first principle of the buddha's eightfold path, samyak drishti, means samyak perfect drishti view. Suzuki once was giving a lecture about Buddhism, you know, and he said: the fourth noble truth of Buddhism is called a noble…

…to do all that, you don't have to play one upmanship, you don't have to have anything special. Last time almost, I met Suzuki, not San Francisco Suzuki, but Japan Suzuki. He signed his name bujinan, which means a man who is nothing special. Now what was…

…don't have to play one upmanship, you don't have to have anything special. Last time almost, I met Suzuki, not San Francisco Suzuki, but Japan Suzuki. He signed his name bujinan, which means a man who is nothing special. Now what was Suzuki doing? Was…

…to play one upmanship, you don't have to have anything special. Last time almost, I met Suzuki, not San Francisco Suzuki, but Japan Suzuki. He signed his name bujinan, which means a man who is nothing special. Now what was Suzuki doing? Was he making a…

…not San Francisco Suzuki, but Japan Suzuki. He signed his name bujinan, which means a man who is nothing special. Now what was Suzuki doing? Was he making a special case of himself as a man who was nothing special? This phrase, buji in Japanese, or…

Just this month a new book has been published by Dr D t Suzuki called mysticism, Christian and Buddhist. I'm not intending to devote this program to a review of this book as such but I call attention to it. Incidentally it's published by Harper's in New…

…office in a place where there was a kind of a tokonoma or alcove. And just in the next few days the Great Zen Scholar, professor Suzuki, was going to pay a visit to us and I said: well I'm going to hang it up and it's going to be there when…

…going to pay a visit to us and I said: well I'm going to hang it up and it's going to be there when professor Suzuki comes and the artist said: I hope he won't notice it. In other words that it should be something so compatible and so congenial with…

…that you can specify, which is the Zen word in Japanese for awakening is just exactly like what you're feeling now, except that, as Suzuki once put it it's about two inches off the ground. That is to say, you feel that the same old world that you see…

…to the sense of weightlessness. And so this is connected this is the inner meaning of lieh Tzu riding on the wind. When Suzuki was asked what is it like to have satori, he said: it's just like ordinary everyday experience except about two inches off the…

…auditorium and they set as the subject matter for the evening the supreme spiritual ideal upon which representatives of all the Great Suzuki was. The last speaker and he got up and he said approximately: I am feeling very confused tonight. I am simple…

…And people got up and they talked about this abstractment that abstractment, brotherly love and oh it became sickening. Finally little old Suzuki got up with his eyebrows going like this and he sat down. I am asked this evening to talk about the supreme…

Just this month a new book has been published by Dr D t Suzuki called mysticism, Christian and Buddhist. I'm not intending to devote this program to a review of this book as such but I call attention to it. Incidentally it's published by Harper's in New…

…Zen is spiritual ophthalmology. Another thing that appeals very much to western students about Zen is that they've read their Zen from Suzuki and from some of my writings and from r h Blythe and these people present a rather different kind of Zen from…

…to many people in the west. Well it's due very largely to the way in which certain people have presented Zen to the west, notably Suzuki and r h Blythe. They have made a great use of the Zen story or the anecdotes. There is a book of Zen Anecdotes,…

…can't see it and you go looking over there there there there there and you're carrying it you see it's like that and so Suzuki has explained that that's the way it is, that once when Saburo Hasegawa who was a Great Japanese painter, was at a dinner…

…individuals, and here is you, who you formerly thought was merely confronting these other people. When the great doctor d t Suzuki was asked what is it like to be enlightened, he said: it's just like ordinary everyday experience, except about two inches…