Tongue of a Crow

 Peter Coyote at Book Passage - video

Peter Coyote cuke page

Tongue of a Crow is Peter's recent book of poetry gathered from a life of writing poems. I just heard him read a number of them when he was a guest on Jon Joesph's Zen Luminaries series.

Reading and commenting on a famous story

Now, Bodhidharma, when he came to China, he visited Emperor Wu or Wuteng  and there were famous questions and answers. This is the first subject of Blue Cliff Record. "Attention: the Emperor Wu of Liang asked the great teacher Bodhidharma, 'What is the first meaning of holy reality?'" What is the first principle? "Bodhidharma said, 'Emptiness. No sacredness.'" No holiness. "The Emperor said, 'Confronting me, who is it?'" Who is here? Aren't you a teacher or a holy person?. "Bodhidharma said, 'I don't know.' The Emperor did not accord. Thereupon Bodhidharma crossed the river and reached the land of Wei." "I" in Japanese.    --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 68-07-23 - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo

How to treat a scroll

And we should not hang same scroll all the time. If you do so, the color will fade, or it will become dusty. So we have to change once in a while, and change it for something else. And we should once in a while, we should hang it. If you don't, scroll will become moldy. So it is pretty difficult to treat it. That is why old scrolls -- even the old ones looks like quite new, if it is good one and well-treated one.   --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 68-07-23 - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo

DC note. I gave up on66-01-22N, /There was too much that was not clear and it was too hard to gather anything coherent from it without a lot of work. So I moved on to another of the new transcripts. I'm not sure about this one either. We'll see/ He's talking about a scroll that Dryden Phelps had loaned him to hang at Sokoji or Tassajara. He talks about the type of scroll and the care of scrolls.

Wrong

For Buddha, there's nothing to receive, but he has many things to give us. And if so, what we do, whether it is offering a cake or practicing zazen, this kind of practice is not a matter of to attain enlightenment, or to practice to do some success. When we do something, it looks like we are doing something good, but actually, for Buddha there is nothing which is good. And nevertheless Buddha has many things to do for people. When Buddha produces many things for us, it is true practice. When we think we do something, that is wrong for practice. That way not our practice.   --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-01-22N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo

DC Comment: Poor quality tape. Some guesswork in transcription. Question marks indicating the transcibers are unsure  have been omitted.. 

Peter Coyote with Jon Joseph

A remind that Hosho Peter Coyote is a guest on Jon Josepth's Zen Luminaries series today March 28th at 6PM PST. Go here to the Pacific Zen Inst. site to get Zoomin on it.

If you're wondering why I'm posting this a second time in a few days, I might be swayed by the fact that Peter has asked Jon Joseph to contribute attendees contributions to Cuke Archives. 

Thanks Peter. Thanks Jon. See you there.

Cannot

Present mind cannot be grasped, past mind cannot be grasped, and future cannot be grasped,  --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-01-22N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo

Offer

For Buddha mind, there is nothing to be offered. Buddha mind is the absolute mind. For the absolute mind where there is nothing to offer.  --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-01-22N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo

DC Comment - this lecture audio is so hard to understand. Look a the transcript and see the shards of what Suzuki said about Tokusan and the old lady that lead up to these statements.  

RIP Edward C. Johnson III

Edward C. Johnson III, 91, Dies; Made Fidelity an Investment Giant

From the NY Times
March 24, 2022

Read it on cuke.com

Ned Johnson, as he was called, continued his father's support of the SFZC most generously through the years. I met him two times. Once in 1973 when I was Richard Baker's jisha, and the second time in 1999 when he expressed an interest in supporting the digitization and transcription of Shunryu Suzuki's audio archive. We should all be most grateful to him and his family and his family fund for their substantial contributions that have helped significantly to establish Shunryu Suzuki's way in the West. - DC 

refresh for the link

If you got the prior post in an email with no link to Robert Pirsig's pamphlet on Zen in Minnesota or from the bounce to Facebook, it's there now the Cuke What's New Blog and here too.

An Historical Document of Note

Robert Pirsig's Zen in Minnesota - sent by Erik Storlie who wrote:

This piece is a fine example of the huge optimism we all had that we were going to change minnesota (if not the world) by bringing zen here.  notice how bob crafts his message to allay fears that the zennies will be another nutcase hippie group.  rather, we will bring wayward young people into line.

while in negotiations for the country land, bob, nancy, i, and others went down to eitzen and had a meeting in a church or city hall where we had to assure concerned locals that we would not be proselytizing, corrupting the children, and disturbing the peace.

notice the strict schedule katagiri created from the get-go:  two zazens each morning, two each evening--all of which he attended.  and we felt guilty if we didn't!

Extending

It is necessary for us to continue our practice with our perfect effort, and actually we have completed our sesshin. What we completed will become more meaningful if you continue -- if you extend this practice for tomorrow. In this way we extend our practice from today to tomorrow, and from sitting practice to everyday life. This is itself our way of practice. --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-01-22N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo

Paul Shippee writes

My Thirtieth Birthday Opens to Zen

Shunryu Suzuki on Peace and War

 SR Peace and War cuke page

check this photo out - Suzuki with young men students doing zazen during WWII

A Lecture Excerpt with some stone work

Yesterday's Instagram Cuke Archives Shunryu Suzuki lecture quote and photo which is summer 1967 L to R Suzuki, Mike Daft, Bob Watkins. 

That's a snapshot of how it's presented on Instagram. These go up six days a week with just a photo and a related link on Sunday. Wanted to remind you it's there - or mind you if you didn't know. - DC 
                               - thanks Peter Ford

Beginning of a Shunryu Suzuki lecture from one of the problem tapes

Tokusan and The Old Lady

Shunryu Suzuki Transcript

Saturday, February 19, 1966

[Tape operator tests microphone]

To practice sesshin

[30 second gap in audio - remaining audio has bleedthrough of radio programs and music]

There is no reason for you to consider ??? you will only create more difficulties (?) you have to work with it (?) Practice this day [laughs] will introduce you to pain (?) [laughter] Moreover, there is no purpose (?) ?? No bottom. [laughs] ??

I think you know that the bottom for the ?? more than I know -- I hope [laughs] ?? this is ??

                                 --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-01-22N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo

DC Comment; Shundo David Haye has spent a lot ot time eeking out every word he can. It gets better - tomorrow. 

Peter Coyote on the 28th

Peter Coyote is Jon Joseph's Zen Luminaries series guest on March 28th, 6pm PST. 

Check it out here.

All brought to you by the Pacific Zen Inst.

Lecture conclusion

 

So far, our sesshin was very successful under the guidance of Bishop Sumi. I'm very much grateful for him to come and direct our sesshin. Tomorrow morning he will give you the final address for this sesshin, so I have to talk this evening.

Thank you very much.                                 --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo

Read DC memories of Togen Smi

Established

Although our practice is quite simple, still this is the result of myriad of peoples' hard practice and way. They risked their life for this way and to establish this practice, this way of practice and understanding. Negation and after negation, criticism after criticism, we have established this kind of teaching.                                  --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo

Norm Randolph lecture

 Old Tassajara roommate Norm Randolph has a talk on YouTube that he gave on the teaching of Blanch Hartman.

Norm Randolph cuke page

Free

Because his mind was free from concrete static logic, he could establish his own way of life, and he left immortal teaching for us. So, Dogen Zenji was great, not to because of his deep, lofty philosophy, but because of his actual practice, real practice, transmitted from Buddha through many and many patriarchs.                                 --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo

Dialectical

After Dogen left this kind of teaching, it is seven, no, 900 years. But we are still caught by just materialistic understanding of life, and our logic is static logic. You are counting bank book [laughs, laughter]. That is static logic [laughs]. You do not think even in dialectic way. Dogen Zenji's way of thinking was very much dialectical. If you practice Buddhism in its true sense, you will have this kind of freedom of our mind.                                 --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo

Free

In sitting, I think some of you must have found out something unusual, had some unusual experience. It means you acquired freedom, whether how you felt about it is pleasant [laughs, laughter], whether it was sad or whether it was, you know, ecstasy or joy is out of question. Whatever it is, something you have found out or experienced. It means you are free from your ordinary framework of your thinking or way of life. Because our life is limited if it is just a materialistic understanding of life.                                  --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo

Near

We should not waste our time in unnecessary thinking or study. If you want to study, study something [laughs] which is true and real. Don't study something very hard or very deep. The truth is always near at hand.                                 --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo

Meaning

Buddha said that how we are is what we become. So, when we completely understand how we live in this world, that is the enlightenment. That is the way to have some meaning in our life in its true sense. It is the actual way of not wasting of our life.                                --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo

From the Cuke Mailbox

Inspired by Basho - by Emmett Johns
with a nod to Susan O'Leary

Cuke Podcast of Note

 Suggest you check out the Cuke Podcast with Andy Ferguson that just went up on Saturday.

Continuing from prior excerpts

When you wonder why, it means you are already caught by, you know, superficial—you are trying to understand our practice in a superficial way, without any conviction, without believing in this ultimate truth. No one can deny what I'm saying just now. I'm just saying [laughs] the truths as they are. I have no particular teaching for you [laughs].                               --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo

Just do it

Forgetting to just do it, we seek for some superficial understanding of our practice, Whether you have attained enlightenment or not, whether this practice is right practice or not, just do it anyway. Then you will find out what it is. It doesn't matter whether it is difficult or easy.                               --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.

Do

So, as Reverend Katagiri said in his instruction about our practice, to do something is the only way. To do something is the only way to understand what it is. To be involved in what you are doing completely, without thinking. Then you will understand what it is. If you have difficulty, that is good. If you have pleasure doing it, that is also good. And pleasure is not just pleasure. When you do something completely, absorbed in your activity, that is not just experience. It is more than experience; it is more than understanding.                               --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.

DC Comment: Back in August 66 they were still using reverend to address a priest. Suzuki went to Japan not long after this and when he returned in late fall, Alan Watt's letter saying had arrived saying that reverend shouldn't be used for Zen priest, that roshi and sensei would be more appropriate. So that took hold and after that only some old timers still used reverend.

Caught

Because we have some particular—we are caught by some particular view of life, without knowing what does it mean in its true sense. We are caught by those views of life, or teachings or philosophy, whatever religion, whatever it is.                              --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.

A little fix on some Excerpts from Crooked Cucumber

I got an email with a request for a clarification of something in Crooked Cucumber that didn't make sense to me. I asked , "Where'd you see that?" The questioner sent me a link to a 2016 piece in Lions Roar with excerpts from the book. I don't think I knew about that but there's my name. So I'm setting the record straight here.

News flash: Rod at Lions Roar fixed this right away this morning. Impressive. Thanks Rod.

No Need!

So, Buddha is—Itself is Buddha, and Mind is Buddha. And Is is Buddha. Being is Buddha, and Buddha is Buddha. Buddha is, of course, Buddha, although we don't know what it is! [Laughs, laughter.] And there's no need to know what it is, because we are Buddha! If so, what is the necessity for us to know who he is?                                --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.

Ken Ireland with a Tale

 Lord Krishna Comes to Tea - on Ken's Koan Conversations

Is

Because you compare one thing to the other, in materialistic way, you are caught by idea of freedom or idea of restriction. But if you have this kind of understanding of reality, all the being, all the "Is," something what is, is Buddha.                               --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.

Zenshuji's 100th Lecture Series (LA's Soto Zen temple)

 A Zoom conversation with Kazemitsu Kato, Jakusho Kwong, Dana Takagi, Daigaku Rumme and others

--thanks Barbara Machtinger

Negate or Include

If you pick up one thing, it negates all the rest. Negate is not negative. It's a good word. You can say, “includes.” It is like a handle of something, you know. If you take hold of something, you have all the machine. If you drive a car, by handle [steering wheel], [laughs] it's a miracle, it means you have all of your car. If you point at one point of the earth, you point at the whole universe. Whatever it is, it doesn't matter.                              --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.

Continuing with what can be called buddha

And Itself is buddha. When you understand something through and through, that is Itself. If you understand suffering through and through, that is buddha. There's no other buddha. All the rest of buddhas, including Shakyamuni Buddha, is included in that itself.                             --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.

Buddha

Being. Being is buddha. Something which exists as it is, is being. Something in the course of formed and forming. In the past it is form, in the present it is forming. Those being is buddha, actual being is buddha. Reality is buddha.                             --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.

DC Comment: Seems to me that the word buddha when not used to name a person should not be caps. Neither should god. I think better not to think of them as proper nouns. But I won't argue the point further.

Thusness

When we say “Buddha,” there is no need to say, "Is Mind itself." When we say “is", "is" is Being, or suchness or thusness.                             --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.

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Cuke Goes Dark on March 3rd for 24 Hours

Because tomorrow is Nyepi in Bali. Read about it at Cuke nonZense for today. So there will be no Cuke posts or podcasts for March 3rd, the date of the traditional Saka New Year's day of Bali.

A Piece on "Thank you very much"

 About Gassho and Bowing - Jerry Halpern wrote this at DC request in response to an email he sent me about Shunryu Suzuki's Beginner's Mind Lecture. Jerry Halpern practiced at the Los Altos Zendo and began studying with Shunryu Suzuki in 1967. This piece was inspired by his listening to the audio and reading the transcript of the very last part of Suzuki's lecture on Beginner's Mind. a part about "Thank You" that was not used in the book. Reading this for the Cuke Podcast today. - DC

Riddle

In the Shobogenzo, in the fascicle of Sokushin Zebutsu, Dogen states What is Mind Itself is Buddha. What is mind, and what is Buddha? And in conclusion he says, “Mind is Buddha, and Buddha is Buddha, and each is Buddha. Each—Buddha is—Mind itself is Buddha. Buddha itself is Buddha.” There is four characters. “Buddha—Mind itself is”—oh five syllable—oh four [laughs]. “Mind itself is Buddha.” And he says, “Mind is Buddha, and each is Buddha, and itself is Buddha. Buddha is Buddha” [laughs, laughter]. Do you understand this riddle?                            --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 66-08-17N - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) lecture tapes. 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. Go to https://www.instagram.com/cuke_archives/ for more daily Shunryu Suzuki lecture excerpts - with a photo.

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