Monday, March 13, 2023

Just discovered Shunryu Suzuki lecture

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Shundo David Haye discovered and transcribed it. Here's what he wrote us:

I have exciting news. I was browsing through the photographs we had taken of all the old reels, while reprocessing them recently, and decided to investigate the one that Bill Redican had catalogued as XX-66-07-07.

We had imported this with the other original reels a couple of years ago as being of potential interest, but I had concluded, based on listening to the first few lines, that it was a different speaker, perhaps Katagiri. It turns out that Suzuki was reading from a translation of Shushogi, and his reading voice is quite different to his normal lecturing voice. As soon as you go further into the talk, it is obviously him. I have transcribed the talk, which is generally very clear, and it is presented here. I think it is a really great talk overall.

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Date and file name: 66-07-07