Help

Our teaching is teaching how to obtain enlightenment and how to help others, and how to help ourselves. And our teaching is, at the same time, how to help others and how to forget all that we have and know how to be common. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-10-00 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay.

Compare

If you compare Buddhism to other teaching, you cannot find out true, why we believe in our way. Because it is not matter of comparison, or it is not matter of which is better, or it is not matter of lofty teaching or common teaching. Our teaching is lofty teaching, of course, but on the other hand it is very common teaching. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-10-00 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay.

Great ZMC Photos

from Zen Mt. Center practice period spring 2018 - thanks Myles Cowherd

Beyond

Zen is beyond even all human effort. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-10-00 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay.

More on the Bali Usada retreat

Adding to the Bali Usada retreat report made earlier this month.
fixed this link

Characteristic

A characteristic of Buddhism, is it's the teaching which it's possible to include various kinds of understanding. All kinds of understanding – and right or wrong, good or bad, high, or lofty, or common. Buddhism has some possibility to put every teaching in right order, and to have understanding of each experience or knowledge – not only religion, but also scientific knowledge, by including all kinds of culture and effort of human being. This is the most important characteristic of Buddhism.----------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-10-00 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay.

Obtained

Whether you have a problem in your life or not is up to the way you have. So there is no problem in your understanding because of the double nature of the truth or paradoxical nature of the truth. This kind of mind will be obtained by your true zazen.----------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-09-27 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay.

ZEN ODYSSEY

The Story of Sokei-an, Ruth Fuller Sasaki,
and the Birth of Zen in America
Janica Anderson and Steven Zahavi Schwartz 

Wisdom Books page for this book

Steven Schwartz will be at Readers' Books (130 E Napa St, Sonoma), Thursday evening April 26 at 7pm,

Big Mind redux

Because we have big mind and sometimes it is very complicated -- complicated big mind -- that is our problem. Sometimes simple -- too simple big mind to figure out what it is. That is also big mind.----------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-09-27 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay.

Big Mind

The big mind is something to express, but is not something to figure out. Big mind is something which you have but is not something to seek for.----------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-09-27 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC - Many Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts on cuke.com - from there links to much more. Going slowly through Suzuki transcripts featuring whatever is next that seems okay.