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Shunryu Suzuki Roshi was a pivotal Zen monk and author who founded the first Western Zen monastery. Discover his legacy of "nothing special."
…occasion right now, or thank you very much for allowing me to sit together with you. I deeply appreciate it. As Suzuki Roshi just have said, there is an enlightenment after meditation an eternal enlightenment. In one of his lectures he explained four steps…
…which is a beautiful old, historical hot spring historical site you know, down between the mountains. Now we're still talking about Suzuki Roshi. Didn't we have a congregation in Japan Prior to coming to this country? Yes, it's 910, we can ask you. Prior…
…important to be clear about that. Well now, that explains more or less the physical aspect of the situation. I take it that Suzuki Roshi will in fact be in residence at the Zen mountain center most of the time so that the students will come and go,…
…center most of the time so that the students will come and go, but you will be more or less stationary. Is that correct Suzuki Roshi? Yes it is. I was moving there so much at first I didn't have that idea of staying there all the time, but recently…
…San Francisco named maezuka and a new young, brilliant priest we've got from Japan who is in Tatsuhara at the mountain center when Suzuki Roshi is not there, and he's there all the time and she knows well. Let me ask you a question which may be…
…only this moment there's nothing you achieve there can't be any achievement because there's nothing to compare that achievement with. So Suzuki Roshi often says that the best way is to have a beginner's mind, just the beginner who's just starting, who takes…
…say one thing: the possibility of all of this occurring and the opportunity for many people to come in contact with Suzuki Roshi and with other teachers is really only for the first time possible in America through Zen mountain center. Otherwise, there's a…
This is a lecture by Suzuki Roshi on the lotus sutra. The recording which you will hear is inadequate because of an inadequate battery supply. It may nevertheless be possible to transcribe it. After a few minutes pause, the recording will begin. The…
Suzuki Roshi, will you tell me about miss ransom. Miss ransom, I don't know she was she was teaching in the past, probably because it when the past. Teaching what? Teaching English, English Sorry. And she, she was teaching us conversation, give us a week.…
…She's done a lot of work to prepare for this too and for the teaching of the morning. We are very privileged to have Suzuki Roshi, who is the teacher and master at the Zen center, and he has just finished a very tiring session along with having a bad…
…From my viewpoint, to me, to my eyes, I can tell quite easily whether they are sectarian or not. Although they may say, oh Suzuki Roshi is terrible sectarian, he sticks to certain way. Yes I stick to certain way, but I am not so bad sectarian as they…