Awakening the Archive
The Awakening the Archive series is a year-long project that celebrates the release of the new Suzuki Roshi audio archive, and helps open the pathways for the sangha to engage with this great resource.
Every two weeks, a significant or newly-discovered Suzuki Roshi talk is featured here with an in-depth article giving context, history, and connections. Many of these featured talks will be drawn from the more than two-dozen newly discovered recordings, and several of these you might recognize as the basis for chapters of the books Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind and Not Always So.
These articles are written by Shundo David Haye, a staff audio engineer and core team member of Engage Wisdom for many years, who is also a Zen priest and teacher in Suzuki Roshi's lineage. Shundo has selected and sequenced the bi-weekly release of these specific talks to highlight the most interesting and significant moments in the collection of Suzuki Roshi's recorded voice.
| Title | Date |
|---|---|
OLD - Some QuestionsThis is the second part of this transcript. Tuesday, November 11, 1969 Question-and-Answer |
Nov 11 1969 |
Form Is Emptiness and Emptiness Is FormHeart Sutra |
Nov 13 1969 |
OLD - Form is Emptiness, and Emptiness is FormThis is just the last part of the transcript from this date. Edited together with 00243. Heart Sutra |
Nov 13 1969 |
Epilogue: Zen MindAmerican practice different from Japanese practice. Enlightenment experience is beyond good and bad, beyond our usual way of thinking. Big mind is always with you, never outside of yourself. Discussion at Tassajara around sex. Having confidence in yourself.... |
Nov 16 1969 |
Opening Lecture At Page Street Zendo: American PreceptsMoving into the new space. Don't worry about success, practice in the present. Hyakujo's regulations, positive and negative sides of guidelines and precepts. Precepts, Shingi |
Nov 22 1969 City Center |
Pinch HitterTuesday, November 25, 1969 Evening Lecture [Katagiri spoke before Suzuki. SR portion starts at 42:52. |
Nov 25 1969 City Center |
Way-Seeking Mind, Part IWinter Sesshin, Lecture No. 1 Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin |
Nov 29 1969 Tassajara |
Way-Seeking Mind, Part IIWinter Sesshin Lecture No. 2 Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin |
Nov 30 1969 Tassajara |
Way-Seeking Mind, Part IIIWinter Sesshin, Day 3, Lecture No. 3 Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin, Bodhisattva Vow |
Dec 01 1969 Tassajara |
Practice Should Not Be Perfect, So Descendants Have Something To DoWinter Sesshin Lecture No. 4 Sesshin, Dogen |
Dec 02 1969 Tassajara |
Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 5Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 5 Sesshin, Bodhisattva, Dogen, Shobogenzo |
Dec 03 1969 Tassajara |
Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 6Sesshin |
Dec 04 1969 Tassajara |
OLD - 1969.12.05-serial.00076Very short segment. Is actually 68-11-11- set aside. |
Dec 05 1969 |
Shosan CeremonyFriday, December 5, 1969 Previously described as intranscribable - now clearer File name: 69-12-05N: untitled level low. [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] Ceremony, Shosan |
Dec 05 1969 Tassajara |
Fundamental Buddhist Point: To Adjust Ourselves To Our SurroundingsAdjusting to life at City Center. Cleaning and zazen. Do we need furniture to practice? Dogen, Eiheiji, Zazen |
Dec 21 1969 City Center |
Respect for ThingsWhat Is Our Practice? Practice as taking care of everything. Not making a noise with the chairs. Practice with new people coming to City Center. Extending the spirit of the zendo to everyday life. ...Zendo, Bodhisattva Way |
Jan 04 1970 City Center |
Ordination Ceremony: Bill Kwong and Silas HoadleyCeremony, Priest |
Jan 11 1970 City Center |
OLD - Ordination Ceremony: Bill Kwong and Silas HoadleyUndated lecture (file 1/11/71) ordination? |
Jan 11 1970 City Center |
RulesDogen |
Jan 18 1970 City Center |
OLD - FragmentDogen |
Jan 18 1970 X |
Caring for the SoilMahayana and Hinayana Buddhism |
Jan 25 1970 City Center |
Our Effort In Our Practice |
Jan 31 1970 City Center |
Brown Rice is Just RightMorning Sesshin Lecture Sesshin |
Feb 01 1970 A City Center |
Each One Of Us Is A CookAfternoon Sesshin Tea Lecture Sesshin |
Feb 01 1970 B |
OLD - Each One Of Us Is A Cook70 #5 - Sesshin 2-1-70 |
Feb 01 1970 Unknown |
“An Unsurpassed, Penetrating Buddha” |
Feb 08 1970 |
The Background of Shikantaza |
Feb 22 1970 City Center |
Selflessness, Being and Non-Being: The Background of ShikantazaSesshin Lecture No. 1: Sesshin |
Feb 23 1970 City Center |
Non-Dualistic PracticeSesshin Lecture No. 3: Sesshin |
Feb 25 1970 City Center |
OLD - Practice To Be Like A StoneSaturday, February 28, 1970 |
Feb 28 1970 City Center |
Practice To Be Like A StoneSR-70-02-28 Sesshin lecture #6 (last lecture) - followed by service #2 for Trudy Dixon |
Feb 28 1970 City Center |
OLD - 1970.03.01-serial.00255Corresponds to end of transcript of 00259 from same date. |
Mar 01 1970 |
Lecture To Prof. Lewis R. Lancaster's Visiting ClassPractice and enlightnment as forgetting and letting go of everything. Even if we don't know what real practice is, continuing and allowing it to reveal itself. Answering student questions. Posture of zazen. Buddha, Emptiness, Zazen |
Mar 01 1970 Tassajara |
Letters From EmptinessHow to Understand the Idea of Emptiness |
Mar 08 1970 City Center |
Our Everyday Life Is Like A Movie |
Mar 15 1970 City Center |
Way-Seeking MindSaturday Lecture Of March Sesshin Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin |
Mar 28 1970 City Center |
The Zen of Going to the Rest RoomUmmon, Tangaryo |
Mar 29 1970 City Center |
Buddha's Birthday LectureCeremony |
Apr 12 1970 City Center |
OLD - Buddha's Birthday70 #5 - Buddha's Birthday 2-4-70 |
Apr 12 1970 City Center |
Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind TempleThis is the bulk of the ceremony, with speakers other than Suzuki Roshi, in Japanese and English |
Apr 25 1970 City Center |
How To Have Sincere PracticeSuzuki Roshi edited from longer recording. |
Apr 25 1970 A City Center |
Remarks at the Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind TempleThese are Suzuki Roshi's words, edited together out of longer recording of ceremony. Ceremony |
Apr 25 1970 City Center |
OLD - How To Have Sincere PracticePart of the opening ceremony for Page St - there are other pieces of audio from this event - SDH Ceremony |
Apr 25 1970 A City Center |
OLD - Remarks at the Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind TempleCeremony |
Apr 25 1970 City Center |
Sincere PracticeHow To Have Sincere Practice Tatsugami, Dogen |
Apr 28 1970 City Center |
Helping OthersSesshin Lecture, No. 2, Saturday, May 2, 1970 Sesshin, Dogen, Zuimonki |
May 02 1970 City Center |
On BreathingSesshin Lecture, No. 1, Saturday Evening, May 2, 1970 Sesshin |
May 02 1970 City Center |
Sincere Practice and Way-Seeking MindSesshin Lecture No. 3, Sunday, May 3, 1970 Sesshin |
May 03 1970 City Center |
We Try To Control Or Restrict Our ActivityTuesday Evening, May 5, 1970 |
May 05 1970 City Center |
Zen Center and City PracticeSunday, May 10, 1970 |
May 10 1970 City Center |
Pages