Big Mind

What you do should be well taken care of by big mind. So, our practice should be based on the big mind. So, the pain we have on our legs is the same, but how we handle it is quite different.                   --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 65-12-11-A - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) or recently significantly added to or changed 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

RIP Nonin Chowaney

Dear friend. We haven't been in touch for so long. I was just thinking of calling you but we'll have to communicate through other means now. Gya te gya te!

Nonin was a dharma heir of Dainin Katagiri and the abbot of the Nebraska Zen Center, founded by Katagiri in 1975, until 2016. Here's the history page of that center with a bunch of photos with Nonin.

cuke page for Nonin

Small Self

You should not try to make some particular effort based on your small self: “I have to—my practice should be better,” [laughs] “my practice.” Buddha’s practice would be better, but not yours. If your effort is based on big mind, you cannot get out of it. It is so big, so you cannot get out of it. But if your small self start to act without any care of big mind, that is not Zen.                   --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 65-12-11-A - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) or recently significantly added to or changed 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

Difficulties

All those difficulties you have in zazen should not take place outside of your mind. It should be kept within your mind. In other words, you have to accept it [laughs].                   --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 65-12-11-A - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) or recently significantly added to or changed 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

James Lovelock Dies

 James Lovelock, known for his Gaia theory has departed this realm at 103. - BBC

Early he warned of ozone depletion but climate change was his great concern.

He saw the whole earth as an interconnected living entity. He wrote Gaia, later the Revenge of Gaia and more recently Rough Ride into the Future. 

Suzuki translates Tozan

A poem by Tozan translated by Shunryu Suzuki and given to Bill Kwong long ago. Bill gave his student Peter Levitt a copy. It came up in Peter's podcast. 

Peter Levitt cuke page

Difficult

When you practice Zen you have of course pain on your legs, and mentally you have some difficulty. You will find out it is rather difficult to be concentrated on your breathing only. And one after another various images will come into your mind. Or your mind will go out for a walk [laughs] wandering about [laughs]. It is rather difficult for me too, so I think you will find out it is rather difficult.                  --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 65-12-11-A - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) or recently significantly added to or changed 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

Continued from Yesterday

This psychology is maybe pretty difficult for you to understand, but Buddhist psychology is concentrated on this point. What is our psychological activity within ourselves? Psychological activity which takes place outside of ourselves is delusion [laughs] according to Buddhist psychology. It is not true. It does not exist. So, deluded activity will not result in anything. But true activity, only true activity result good result.                 --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 65-12-11-A - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) or recently significantly added to or changed 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: When he says "deluded activity will not result in anything" he means anything beneficial. I'd say there's no activity without a result.

A Sesshin with Dainin Katagiri

Wendy Pirsig’s Journal Account of her and husband Bob’s Sesshin with Dainin Katagiri Roshi on September 17-23, 1979

Wendy Pirsig cuke page

Dualistic

Of course, we have dualistic activity, but that activity take place within the big mind. So, this dualistic activity within ourselves is different from the dualistic activity which we usually take.                --------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki  lecture - 65-12-11-A - as found on shunryusuzuki.com, from one of the newly discovered (2021) or recently significantly added to or changed 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