Shunryū Suzuki

Bakers, hello! I am happy to be back with you and to be talking today with Edward S.B.

Brown, a Zen priest, meditation instructor, teacher of vegetarian cooking classes, and the author of a long list of books about food and Zen.

He was the first head cook at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.

which is now a retreat location for the San Francisco Zen Center.

And then we say, this is why awakening is said to be a practice.

If you want to awaken, you practice awakening with things as you participate with things, seeing, tasting, smelling.

One Zen teacher said, Tenke, Japanese Zen teacher somewhere in the last two or three hundred years, he said, see with your eyes, smell with your nose, Taste with your tongue.

Nothing in the universe is hidden.

And a few other things that came across my way.

Of course, the great Suzuki Roshi.

And, you know, my fear of death.

You know, I came, of course, most of us have read Beginner's Mind.

And I remember Suzuki Roshi describing the waterfall in Yosemite.

And this is how we all are, drops of water flying off that waterfall and then down and Imagine how scary that experience must be.

And then you're in the source.

It's like, I'm just going to be returning to that source.

And of course, our wonderful staff, including dear Kodo and my fellow teachers, Shinzon and Cathy.

And of course, Roshi, right, who just built this extraordinary, extraordinary container that we can all come together in and settle into and get in touch with something, you know, really meaningful to us, settle into something that our busy, acquisitive and distracted lives outside don't always let us touch.

Roshi, nine bows wherever you are.

And who knows where she

is? The woman is amazing.

And there were innovations

amid the landscape, political and cultural and historical.

And one of the innovations that is coming forward, which is kind of at the heart of what we're aiming at, is this whole methodology of koans, right? Now, in the Suzuki Roshi lineage, we have respect for koans and appreciate them and take them to heart, but we don't study them in the same way that the Rinzai school studies them, which is that the koan is pretty much all that is considered.

Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Lenore Candle, Gary Snyder, Timothy Leary, making his first appearance on the West Coast and his old Harvard colleague Richard Alpert.

The Zen teacher Suzuki Roshi sat quietly among them.

and between the poems and the chanting there was music the whole roster of the neighborhood's bands jefferson airplane big brother and the holding company quicksilver messenger service and the grateful dead who played a short set of the songs they were playing everywhere that winter a soul cover a long blues pigpens harmonica rock scully's memory of it is mostly sensory conch shells being blown incense burning little altars of feathers and mirrors and bells set out on the grass people wandering around blowing soap bubbles and checking out the bands nobody minded anything the ground he said was fairly humming And it changed things.

The newspapers and magazines covered it, and the story went out across the country.

If it is, this isn't practice.

So today, Hongzhi reaches through time and space, arrives in our zendo with these beautiful words, and offers us this practice guidance, which I don't know if you noticed, but very much mirrors Suzuki Roshi's passage from yesterday about big mind and small mind.

The Dharma realm in the ten directions arises from the single mind.

When the single mind is still, all appearances are entirely extinguished.