Stop

To stop your mind does not mean to stop your activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.----------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-11-02 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.

RIP Shaku Daijo

Sad to learn that Daijo died.
Daijo was at Sogenji in Japan for much of the time Elin and I lived next door. Later I'd visit him in Kyoto at  a subtemple of farmous Ryoanji.  He was a most sincere student who practiced many years in Japan and, with his wife Ursula, opened Daishu-in West in Humbolt County California.

Farewell dear Daijo.

That's his calligraphy. - thanks E.H. Mann for sending it.

Every Possible

Our practice in each moment will include every teaching possible. This is our practice of Zen. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

Emphasis

Especially in Zen we put emphasis on the practice on, or in, each moment. Moment after moment we continue this kind of practice, and moment after moment the meaning of the teaching, or content of the teaching, will develop according to the circumstances. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

Eyes and Ears

If you have the eyes to see, the ear to hear what others may say, all the religion will be your religion. When you have this kind of ears to listen to various religion, then you are Buddhist.----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

Cling

So, if you believe in Buddhism, you have no problem with what kind of religion you should believe in. All the religion you will believe in, at the same time, will be Buddhism, if you understand it properly. But because you cling to one teaching only, forgetting all the rest of the teaching, or if you cling to the teaching just because your teaching is lofty, then you will lose the true meaning of the teaching. Even though your religion is good, if you think your religion is good but the rest of the teaching is not good, it means you ignore the rest of the truth.----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

Good Only

Usually I find people seeking for something good only, something lofty only, but they are not interested in something common, something usual. But we do not stay in the stage of Buddha, because true Buddha is always someone who help ourselves and who help others too.----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

updownward

 So, our teaching is very upward and very downward, at the same time.----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

Bali Usada

A week of Tapa Brata with Merta Ada
fixed link
Is now in Indonesian - Baca di bahasa Indonesia


That's the meditation hall.

Grahame Petchey's Way-seeking Mind Story

This by DC was read by Richard Baker at Grahame's memorial at Green Gulch April 21, 2018