Obvious again

It is too obvious. So Zen is not mysterious at all. ---------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-12-02 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.

Baso

It is so mysterious that we cannot say anything [laughs]. Having big words, even a Zen master, even Baso whose tongue reached to nose cannot say anything [laughing, ongoing laughter]. If he says something, you should pull his tongue. You shouldn't fool us by your long tongue. Give me it! That is right, you know.  ---------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-12-02 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.

Obvious

So it is impossible to put reality into words. So that is why we say “mysterious.” But mysterious is not mysterious. It is too, you know, obvious. ---------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-12-02 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.

Geese

Wild geese is wild geese. If they flew away, they flew away. [Laughs.] You cannot say, “They are there,” and “They flew away” [laughs]. Wouldn't make any sense, you know. Master will ask you which do you mean? Is it here or there? [Laughs, laughter.] You have no answer. No answer is right. [Laughs, laughter.] ---------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-12-02 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.

Mysterious

Here the translator's translation is "mysterious.” Mysterious does not mean, you know, something [laughing] mysterious. Mysterious means beyond words. It is not possible to say various understandings from all angles. If you say from one side, you cannot say, at the same time, from the other side. So that is why we say mysterious. So even an enlightened master cannot say anything properly.  ---------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-12-02 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.

Rock

As Dogen Zenji said in his poem, it is like letters. It can be letters written on high rock-- high rugged rock on the seashore. No waves can reach. Even though you try to see it, you cannot see it because it is too high. But the high rock on the rugged seashore is always there, giving various teaching to us. This kind of teaching is true teaching. ---------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-12-02 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.

Outside

So we say: “teaching outside of letters”-- teaching which will be understood if we have ears to listen to it, eyes to see it. But if we do not have eyes to see it, we cannot see it. That is the teaching outside of letters. ---------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-12-02 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.

Me

Gold or salt is not actually the power of me -- me. Something you cannot understand what is it -- what it is. Something which is beyond our understanding. Something which you cannot put it in words.---------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-12-02 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.

A Brief History of Tassajara available

Tassajara Zen Mt. Center now has copies of
A Brief History of Tassajara: from Native American Sweat Lodges to Pioneering Zen Monastery
The SFZC City Center will have them in a few days and they'll get some to Green Gulch Farm
The can be ordered from the SFZC Bookstore - details at that link.

from Cuke Press
194 pages - 260 photos and images - $20

Unusual

Even though they say “this is unusual,” for us Zen students it is not unusual. Only unusual thing is the thing which can be everything, like, you know, money or gold. You know [laughs], you can buy everything with that. Maybe like salt, you know: Whatever you eat, there is some amount of salt [laughs], you know. In this way our power is something like this, figuratively speaking.---------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-12-02 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.