List and Chart

In addition to the Search Form and alternate search methods, shuunryusuzuki.com has a Lecture chart that's been there for years and a Lecture List which is new. I find that each method of presenting the lectures has its advantages and uses. - DC

Just

So we have to practice zazen just to practice zazen, as we live in this world without any particular reason why we live in this world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-04-22-B 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.

Still more on shunryusuzuki.com Transcript Archive

Continued from posts on March 3 and 4. - On shunrysuzuki.com there are a number of different versions of the transcripts from verbatim to various levels of editing plus several audio choices for many lectures. The transcripts include material other than lectures such as interviews, film transcripts, and Suzuki's comments from SFZC Wind Bells. Some transcripts from problem audio are partial with gaps, two are blank from audio beyond our ability to understand anything. 

Help

Having the true spirit is how to help others. Without this point we cannot help others in its true sense. If you have this understanding, whatever you do-- alms giving, or kind words, or loving words-- will work. And this is why we practice zazen too. So zazen is not some particular practice to attain something for ourselves, but to have true understanding of life and to acquire true spirit of life.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-04-22-B 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.

More on the new Shunryu Suzuki transcript form featured yesterday

In the last dozen years we've added 97 entries to the 2004 digital transcript archive of 313 so now there are 410. Hundreds of corrections, additions, and changes have been made in recent years. A great deal of work has also gone into improving the quality, extent, and presentation of the audio, video, and photos. Efforts continue to improve the completeness, accuracy, quality, and accessibility of the archive, expanding on the efforts of many others going back almost sixty years. - more on Monday. - dc

Joy

Of course, as long as we live or as long as we have this body, it is not possible to get out of suffering. So the point is how to change our suffering into joy of life -- true joy of life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-04-22-B 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.

Improvements to Shunryu Suzuki dot com transcript archive

The Transcript search on shunryusuzuki.com now takes one to  a new domain, shunryusuzuki2.com, with a new (SQL) database and search form which it opens in and where the most up-to-date lecture transcripts from our archive are now for the first time indexed by Google and other search engines. Another improvement is that the new search form has the function to save transcripts from ones search in one PDF. To save all transcripts as one PDF file, hit the Search button without any criteria and then click the Save All PDF button. There is also an option to save as word files.

Of the multiple transcript versions of each entry, the default for this list is the vertabim or closest to verbatim version. 

Superficial

If we have true spirit to live in this world, there is no problem. But because of our superficial understanding of life, we have many problems and suffering. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-04-22-B found onshunryusuzuki.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.

Breathing Practices

Article in NY Times - thanks Gregory 

Spirit

The most important thing to do for others is not to build something beautiful for others or to help them in some materialistic way or formal way, but to help others by giving true spirit of how to live in this world and true understanding of our life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 67-04-22-B 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.