Correct

The correct way to listen to my lecture is to listen with just the right amount of effort. Do not listen with a dualistic frame of mind. The correct way is just to listen with an accepting attitude. This is different from listening with the intent to ask questions. Asking questions is to merely develop your preconceived ideas. You must give up all preconceived ideas and all feelings of good or not good. If you listen to your teacher with the attitude of a disciple, you will learn about Buddhism in the right way.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Tony Artino notes from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-04-05 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.

Do Balinese still believe in Black Magic?

The Kulture Kid answers the question. And where's the heart of this stuff - right where we live Banjar Sindhu, Sanur. Yikes! - dc 

Difference

If you realize the difference between listening as a students and as an audience member, you will know how to study Buddhism.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Tony Artino notes from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-04-05 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.

Judy Roitman in Kansas writes

It will Never add Up  - The reference to Shunryu Suzuki in her article comes from this lecture:
Blue Cliff Records-73, Baso's Four Propositions, Nov 1964 [64-11-00] from the November, 1964 Wind Bell. An edited summary of a lecture. Page for this lecture on shunryusuzuki.com including link to the Wind Bell from which it comes.- thanks Tony Patchell (The Zen in the title online was added by Buddhadharma. She didn't write that. - publications make the titles usually)

Kansas Zen Center which Judy Roitman founded

More of Tony's lectures notes

Give up all preconceived ideas and feelings.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Tony Artino notes from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-04-05 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.

The Point

There is no point. - Kabumpkan

Patience

We should practice and live with patience. In this way we can control our lives-but control does not mean to gain or achieve something. It means to appreciate and constantly enjoy our life as it is.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Tony Artino notes from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-04-02 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.

A Good Law

Met an American woman on the island of Lembongan who was there for a few days with her family. She and her husband are missionaries in Papua. Papua is an Indonesian province on the western part of New Guinea, the largest island after Greenland. Papua New Guinea on the east side is an independent nation. This couple has been dealing with a primitive tribe for fifteen years. She said that they were much happier and healthier now and women are no longer property. She said that when her husband first came he met a man who used to practice cannibalism. The man was friendly and kind, gave him a pineapple, and told him that human meat was even better than pig. He told how he'd butcher him if he were going to eat him, where he'd cut and so forth. But that, the man said, was long ago. Now days cannibalism is illegal - but the law and outsiders haven't reached everywhere.

Keep

We should just keep a beginner's mind and avoid being greedy and feeling that what we have is not enough.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Tony Artino notes from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-04-02 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.

Our dear friend the gentle, noble Huston Smith

From Huston Smith dot net - Huston's Health: His condition is very weak. He is in hospice care, awake briefly, unable to read, recognizes family and a few others with whom he has been close and whom he sees frequently.

Huston Smith cuke page  

got the photo off his Wikipedia page