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Saturday, February 15, 2025

Free from the Ordinary Framework

In sitting, I think some of you must have found some unusual experience. It means you acquired freedom, whether how you felt about it was pleasant [laughs], whether it was sad or whether it was ecstasy or joy, is not the question. Whatever it is, something that you have found out—or what the experience was—it means you are free from the ordinary framework of your thinking, or way of life.

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Friday, February 14, 2025

Not Wasting Time

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 our life. We should not waste our time in unnecessary thinking or study. If you want to study, study something [laughs] which is true and real.

Tassajara han

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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Ultimate Truth

When you wonder why, it means you are already caught by superficial thinking—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 the truths as they are. I have no particular teaching for you [laughs].

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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Completely

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.

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Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Caught

Because we have some particular view of life, without knowing what it means in its true sense, we are caught by those views of life, or a teaching or a philosophy, whatever religion, whatever it is.

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Monday, February 10, 2025

Necessity To Know?

So, 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?

Art by Kakinuma Ninshou

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Sunday, February 9, 2025

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I first met Jesse Wiens Chu at Tassajara about twenty years ago. Now he and his wife Catherine live around the corner. They both have extensive training in Buddhist practice and are NVC (Nonviolent Communication) teachers. Learn about them and their practice at babatree.org and check out their book Ongo and ongobook.com. Learn about all that and more in this podcast with Jesse. - dc

Saturday, February 8, 2025

A Film about Bill Porter (Red Pine)

Dancing with the Dead follows the life of Bill Porter, who goes by the pen name Red Pine, an author and renowned translator of ancient Chinese poetry. The child of a bank robber, Bill turned his back on American devotion to materialism and set off to the Zhongnan Mountains in China to uncover something deeper. This film offers a glimpse into poetry and mountain solitude as a path to enlightenment.

This film will be available to stream until midnight on Friday, February 28, 2025 for subscribers to Tricycle. tricycle.org/filmclub/dancingwiththedead/

All

If you point at one point of the earth, you point at the whole universe. Whatever it is, it doesn’t matter. If you compare one thing to another in a materialistic way, you are caught by an idea of freedom or of restriction. But if you have this kind of understanding of reality, all the being, all of something that is, is Buddha.

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Friday, February 7, 2025

Included

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 Buddha, including Shakyamuni Buddha, is included in that “Itself.”

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Thursday, February 6, 2025

Reality Is Buddha

When we say “Buddha,” there is no need to say, “Is” or “Mind itself.” When we say “is", “is” is being, or suchness or thusness. Being is Buddha. Being—something which exists as it is, is “Being.” Those being is Buddha, actual being is Buddha. Reality is Buddha.

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Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Mind Itself Is Buddha

In the Shobogenzo, in the fascicle of Sokushin Zebutsu, it says “Mind itself is Buddha.” What is mind, and what is Buddha? In conclusion he says, “Mind is Buddha, and Buddha is Buddha, and Is is Buddha.” There’s four characters. Buddha—Mind itself is. Mind itself is Buddha. And he says, “Mind is Buddha, and Is is Buddha, and Itself is Buddha. Buddha is Buddha” [laughs, laughter]. Do you understand this riddle?

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Tuesday, February 4, 2025

The Podcast audio has been fixed.

A Chat with Chat GPT on Religion | Podcast - Getting irritated by the simplistic approach toward "religion" from famous atheists like Neil deGrasse Tyson, I turn to ChatGPT. Not incidentally, I love listening to Tyson when he knows what he's talking about.

Thorough Understanding

To know things as it is means to let everything act as they want. “Let it be free.” Because you want to bind it, you have difficulties. It means having a thorough understanding of our life. And our practice should be based on a thorough understanding of our human life, and a thorough understanding of all the rest of existence.

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Monday, February 3, 2025

That’s All

“Oh, reality is good, [laughs] people are enjoying.” That’s all. That is the kind of understanding we have. So, knowing things through and through is the point, without criticizing what is. If you like, you can criticize it, but that criticism has nothing to do with big mind [laughs].

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Sunday, February 2, 2025

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The Podcast audio should work now.

A Chat with Chat GPT on Religion | Podcast - Getting irritated by the simplistic approach toward "religion" from famous atheists like Neil deGrasse Tyson, I turn to ChatGPT. Not incidentally, I love listening to Tyson when he knows what he's talking about.

Saturday, February 1, 2025

A Bird in the Sky

When you accept difficulties with confidence, with big mind, or when you let your difficulty work out its true function, then you have no difficulty—that is not difficulty anymore. The difficulty is like a bird flying in the sky. Your mind is the sky that knows what it is, “Oh, a bird is flying.” That’s all [laughter].

Image from “Birds At Tassajara” by William W. Sterling

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Friday, January 31, 2025

Accept

Dogen Zenji said, “If one side is bright, the other side is dark.” When you say “happiness,” that’s all, only happiness. When you say “unhappiness,” you have only unhappiness. And when you accept unhappiness and happiness through and through, in this sense, in this way, you have absolute renunciation.

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Thursday, January 30, 2025

Oneness

So actually, the unity of opposites—two opposites exist. The pair of good and bad exists. But there is no good without bad. There is no bad without good. We always exist in a pair of contradictions. We are lucky that we are a perfect contradictory existence [laughs, laughter]. Or else, there would be no way to attain oneness. One absolute existence.

Drawing by Paul Reps

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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Unity

Here is man and woman, one and the other. But actually, what does exist is the unity of man and woman. The unity of man and woman exists, but if you separate man from woman, there’s no more woman or man. Because there is man, there is woman. Because there is river, there is ship.

“Earth Ship” by Mayumi Oda

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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Everyone

So, someone is here means everyone is here—in its true sense, not material sense. In materialistic understanding, that is not true. If I am here, there are many people. If I am talking here, many people are listening. But when I say, “I am talking to you.” It means “I”—the idea of “I” negates the audience. If you say, “I am listening to you,” it is a negation of the speaker. Do you understand?

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Monday, January 27, 2025

Time

There may be many, many interpretations of the idea of time. But actually, time does not exist. Time means a changing of relationship or quality or color or sights—that’s time. When the function of things changes, it is time. When the color of something changes, it is time. But actually, there’s nothing besides the actual changing of things.

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Sunday, January 26, 2025

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Shunryu Suzuki often used the phrase "most important" usually in "the most important point" or "the most important thing." In this podcast DC reads from a page that includes every instance of these words in Suzuki lectures as found in the 2010 transcript collection. There have been additions to the Suzuki lecture archive since then, so this collection should be updated.

Bright Window Hermitage


Kokyo Henkle and Shoho Kuebast have started a new retreat place on Tassajara Rd (one mile up from Jamesburg), called Bright Window Hermitage. Check out Kokyo's blog on that site.


They're in the early stages, but are building kutis/huts for solo retreat and will also offer sesshin, etc... See Kokyo's Facebook page for many photos.

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Through and Through

According to Buddhism, suffering is valuable because it is suffering, through and through. Enlightenment is valuable because enlightenment is enlightenment, through and through. So, when we say enlightenment, the rest of things is enlightenment. When we say, “I am ignorant,” every one of us is ignorant.

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Friday, January 24, 2025

If

You may say if you get a lot of money, you will be happy, but it is not true. Or, if I try hard, I will attain enlightenment; that is not true [laughs]. In its true sense enlightenment is quite a different quality from ignorance. It is a pair of opposites. Because opposites, it has value. If it were possible to join enlightenment and ignorance, you could strive to attain enlightenment in a materialistic way, with money or by sitting many, many years [laughs, laughter]. You could try. But I don’t think it is possible because they are two completely different qualities.

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Thursday, January 23, 2025

Different

Why do we have suffering? Because we have happiness or joy on the other hand. Why we have happiness is because we have difficulties. And you cannot join happiness to difficulties. They are completely different qualities. When we feel, as long as we are conscious, it is impossible to join unhappiness and happiness. They are essentially different qualities of consciousness.

Painting by Arthur Okamura

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Wisdom

Buddha did not suffer from difficulties with a dualistic or one-sided idea. He was called Buddha because he had wisdom. His wisdom solved the contradictions of life. We human beings are by nature good and bad, half and half.

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025

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Podcast - The Heart Sutra - Eiheiji monks chant the Heart Sutra. Shunryu Suzuki's basic meaning of the kanji from the Sokoji chant card. I play it for a bed-ridden Japanese man raised Soto-shu in a retirement home. Read more about it here.

Monday, January 20, 2025

Strived

There’s no Buddha, we say. We say that because there is no natural Buddha. Buddha is someone who strived—strived faithfully through difficulties.

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Sunday, January 19, 2025

Breakthrough

When we find real joy of life in pain and in difficulty, that is true joy, according to Buddhism. We say, there is no natural Buddha. Buddha is someone who attained enlightenment with a human body, who has a breakthrough of human life, and who found eternal joy in human life—in immortal life.

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Saturday, January 18, 2025

Three Points

So, characteristic of Buddhist understanding of causality is: one way it is mechanical, and we do not ignore freedom. On the other hand, it is teleological, and we do not believe in any perfection. Believing in perfection, this is also a mistake. So, we should be free from those three mistakes: to have an idea of perfection as a human being, just to be bound by causality, and just trying to ignore the theory of cause and effect. These three points, at least as far as I know, should be understood in order to understand causality in its true sense.

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Friday, January 17, 2025

On and On and On

People have a misunderstanding. They think we human beings can attain some goal. But for human beings and for all the rest of existence there is no limit to achieving things. Things will go on and on and on. We don’t know when it will end. It should go on and on and on.

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Thursday, January 16, 2025

Dynamic Change

You have some purpose, some goal, and you have some way to attain that goal. If it is true, it is actually a dynamic changing life. When we follow that dynamic change of every being, our goal will be attained. But if we ignore that dynamic change of the universe, even though we have a plan in mind, it will not work. So, if your plan is right, to have some goal in your life means to follow the dynamic change of the world. In this way, our life will go on and on and on endlessly. This is right understanding.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Continuous and Discontinuous

Time is, as I always say, time is continuous and discontinuous. Time is not always continuous. Time is discontinuous. Time stops, you know. If it is going, you cannot say, "this is six o’clock or eight o’clock." When you say eight o'clock, it is eight o'clock; it is not a future nine o'clock. It is eight o'clock. So, when you say “eight o'clock,” time stops, tentatively. But actually, it is going on—we have to know that actually time is going on and on, but we have to say, tentatively “it is nine o'clock” or “seven o'clock.” From this understanding, time is some point on a straight line from past to future. But actually, time is going and going on and on, so there is no point to point at. It is going on; the only way you have it is to follow a clock or sunshine. That is the only way we form the idea of time. So, when you have an idea of time, it means you have an idea of continuity and discontinuity.

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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

At the Same Time

Those who believe in a teleological understanding of life sacrifice this present for the future. Actually, what we should have is happiness in this moment. To sacrifice this moment for the sake of the future is upside-down. If you understand our life, on the one hand our life should be absolutely free from past and future. At the same time, we have to have some purpose, some goal to achieve. How this contradictory way of thinking goes together is our philosophy.

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Monday, January 13, 2025

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Dor Ben-Amotz is a science professor who, in this podcast, talks about his experience teaching a course in Buddhism and Meditation at Bennington College in Vermont. He also speaks about how he got into Buddhism and meditation, his time at Green Gulch Farm, and more. Links to the podcast and course syllabus are at - cuke.com/f.

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Freedom

In Buddhism, we do not ignore freedom. At least, at a certain moment, we have freedom. But in the next moment, we have to change our way, literally. And next we have to change more. In this way, everything will—our life, will go on and on. This is a Buddhist understanding of our life.

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A Course Syllabus on Buddhism and Meditation


Dor Ben-Amotz is a science teacher who has taught classes in Buddhism and Meditation as well. Among other practice pursuits, he gets to Green Gulch for sesshin when he can. Here's a syllabus for a course he taught last fall at Bennington College in Vermont. 

Saturday, January 11, 2025

No Other Way

If the earth says, I don’t want the sun [laughs], what will happen to it? There is no other way. Because of this unthinkable thinking we exist, we can think, we can live. Without this unthinkable thinking, it would change into delusion. If you insist on avoiding it, it means you are involved in dark deep delusion.

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Friday, January 10, 2025

Why Something Is Important

You should not neglect our zazen because you think something else is more important. Why something is important for you is because of this practice. So, if you forget all about practice, you lose your life. Whatever you do, it doesn’t work.

Drawing by Stan White

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Thursday, January 9, 2025

Aftermath of Election

Pat McMahon sends: 

AFTERMATH OF ELECTION and anticipating the inauguration of the new regime - Nov. 14, 2024

It's not a political piece. He compares how he felt with a day back in 1971 at Zen Center and transcends it all. - dc  

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Beyond Thinking and Unthinking

The first way you think, that is how. That is the unthinkable. But you have no notion of thinking about anything. That is our practice. “How do you think the unthinkable. Think beyond thinking and unthinking.” Think beyond thinking and unthinking. Your thinking should be beyond I think or I don’t think. It must be right there always.

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Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Unthinkable Thinking

What it means is very deep. How do you think the unthinkable? This is not just a question. It is a strong statement. How do you think the unthinkable. This is not interrogative. It is a strong affirmative sentence. How do you think the unthinkable. Unthinkable thinking is how.

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Seeking photo

Looking for photos of Tassajara in 1967 or that will pass as 1967 with women or woman. Submitting photos for Tassajara Stories--the first year. Suggestions welcome. Thanks. - dc

Here's one I sent in that has a woman

L to R - Phillip Wilson, Shunryu Suzuki, Mitsu Suzuki, unknown, David Chadwick, Richard Baker.

Here's the link to it on shunryusuzuki.com

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

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Memorial Podcast for Peter Schneider - Peter Schneider began sitting at Sokoji in 1963. He was ordained as a priest by Shunryu Suzuki in 1970 and received transmission from Mel Weitsman. He was at Tassajara for the first years as office manager, then director for a few years, Suzuki's attendant. He and his wife Jane got together there. They lived in Japan many years and on their return to America, founded the Beginner's Mind Zen Center in Northridge, CA, part of LA. Peter, born in 1937, died on January 4, 2025. Go to their cuke page for more and for links to the cuke podcasts with them.

Monday, January 6, 2025

All Ways Are How

So how do you think the unthinkable? There is no way. How? How is the way. Because we don’t know how. So, there you can put anything. How? This way is how. That way is how. All ways are how. It is like a fact. A cat is a fact. A dog is a fact.

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Sunday, January 5, 2025

RIP Peter Schneider


from Beginner's Mind Zen Center
in Northridge, CA 

Peter Schneider, Yozen Taishin (Embracing Zen, Surrender to the Truth), ordained by Shunryu Suzuki and a dharma heir of Sojun Mel Weitsman, was born December 24, 1937.


He passed away Saturday January 4, 2025, around 8 pm. He had been alternating between hospital and a convalescent recovery facility since breaking his femur in a fall a couple months ago. His situation was complicated by a bacterial infection. Even though he was eventually declared free of the infection and taken off antibiotics, it wasn't enough. One of our sangha members said the nurse they spoke with said it was quite unexpected, as she had checked in on him an hour before he passed. It is unclear what the ultimate cause of death was.

He is survived by his wife and co-abbot Jane, and all of us. May we celebrate his life and remember his teaching.

Deep bows,

-Chris B (Myokan Daisho)

***

I've been in touch with Peter and Jane recently and Peter very recently while he was in a convalescent center. We talked a couple of times since he was there. His mind was fine. Heartfelt condolences to Jane. They were a very tight couple. From the time they got together at Tassajara they've been inseparable. They'd get sick together. He said she wasn't well either. We tended to talk the three of us together. I told them to me they were a unit. Farewell dear friend and dharma bro - dc

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Like The Sun

The sun is not shining only on the earth, you know. If the earth happens to be here, the sun will shine on our earth [laughs]. Think unthinkable means your mind must be like the sun. It is shining, but it is not shining on some particular thing.

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Saturday, January 4, 2025

Think The Unthinkable

Think the unthinkable. You must think the unthinkable means think not about something. Usually when you think, you think about something. But if your thinking mind is directed the opposite way, that is to think the unthinkable. Your mind is still clear, but there is no object.

One-stroke brushplay by Kazuaki Tanahashi

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