Conclusion of Lecture

And it takes time, you know, until you actually practice our way and extend our way in our everyday life. So there is no reason why you should try to attain something. Anyway, to continue our practice without giving up [laughs], that is the most important thing for you.

Thank you very much. -   -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-08-25 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC  - Going through Suzuki lectures and posting anything that can stand on its own. Not looking for zingers or "the best of." I find that following these excerpts daily provides another way to experience Suzuki's teaching. - DC

Interview with Peg Anderson and Will Stocker

 Interview with Peg Anderson and Will Stocker - done 25 years ago at her home in Palo Alto - two who sat at the Haiku Zendo.

Ignore

When you do not understand this kind of teaching [as described yesterday - knowing the appropriat way, the middle way], you will not find good teacher, you know. You will ignore him [laughs], even though very best teacher is right here, like me [laughs, laughter]. No-- I don't think so [laughing]. You will ignore it: “He is talking about the same thing over and over.”  -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-08-25 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC 

More on Ananda

Wrapping up this week's focus and Ananda Claude Dalenberg, here's his cuke interview with a brief history.

Much more linked to from his cuke page

Photo SRO346 with names - Ananda is 2nd from the right in front.

Appropriate

To do something which is necessary when it is necessary, in the most adequate, appropriate way [laughs] is very difficult, you know. Someone who can do things in this way is good priest [laughs], good student.  -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-08-25 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC 

Mountain Gate Study Center curriculum

Jay Gilbert just wrote: I saw your blogspot about Ananda. I wondered if you can put out a call to see if anyone has a copy of the old Mountain Gate Study Center curriculum. Remember when we has a framework for Study Center classes? Abidharma, Koans: Blue Cliff/Mumonkan, Emptiness. I don't remember the specific categories, but then one class of each category would be offered either at City Center or at GGF each "semester". I rather remember there were 6 categories, but it was so much more comprehensive than any online courses I am seeing, or the current SFZC offerings. Ananda designed it, and I am grateful for getting such a comprehensive grounding in the teachings of the Buddha.

DC - I'm putting out the word looking for it. Thanks Jay. He says he looked for it when he was shuso but that he couldn't find a copy of it anywhere.

Ananda Claude Dalenberg's cuke page

Photo from SFZC 1973 Wind Bell article on the new Zen Buddhist Study Center.

I should get all references to Ananda from the Wind Bells and put it on his cuke page, but I found this using cuke's Wind Bell search set up by Peter Ford.

Middle Way

We have been studying the same thing [laughs], you know, over and over again -- sometimes by Prajnaparamita Sutra, sometimes by five ranks, sometimes by ten powers. But actually, they are various explanations of zazen power. And if you extend our understanding, you will understand everything in the most meaningful way-- the most adequate way. That adequate way is called the middle way. -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-08-25 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC 

Remembering Ananda Dalenberg

A memorial piece I wrote for Ananda. - DC

Ananda Dalenberg's cuke page

Photo - SR0044

Oct. 1966 At Rinsoin

L to R: Shunryu Suzuki, Hoitsu Suzuki, ?, Grahame and Pauline Petchey, Phillip Wilson, Claude Dalenberg - by Fumiyo Yanagita

Ears and Eyes

You are not aware of your ears, you know. Even though you are not aware of your ears, you hear something. When you see something,  [laughs] you cannot see your own eye. So our practice should be like this, you know. You should not be aware of your practice. -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-08-25 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC 

No Buddhism

When you can intuitively know what is our way, you will extend your way until you have attainment in its true sense - where there is no Buddhism [laughs] -- no Buddhism. -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-08-25 as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC