Class on contemplative prayer using Thomas Merton's The Inner Experience.
Class VII
Contemplative Prayer Set 2 of 2
Class VIII
Class IX
Class XI (Class X not recorded)
Cassian Conference
Sunday Lecture
Early Christian mystics; Benedictine regulations, the rule of obedience; manifestation of God in the world.
Reading of Dr Edward Conze's translation - this is after 00007A and separate from it.
AIBS
Early Seventies
Morning; Buddha sitting to save all beings; difference between Bodhisattva stage and Buddha stage.
Lecture given in Japanese with translation
Prajna is beyond words and inexpressible; Joshu, Daishi and the broom; achieving the knowledge of not-knowledge.
Speaking on Mahamudra and translating old Mahamudra texts.
Myths and legends in religious traditions; natural and supernatural language.
The Three Bodies of Buddha; comparison between Eastern and Western thought; Greek tradition and Puritan tradition.
The problems with celibacy
Not taking what is not given.
Interviewed by Kazuaki Tanahashi; brief history of studies in Rinzai dojo; nature of being a roshi.
Seminar 1
Sunday dharma talk.
Sunday Talk.Life at Green Gulch in the 1970s; giving, fearlessness; improv; no mistakes; parenting.
Sunday talk. Practice, realization, expression; Dogen's letters to nun Ryugen
Wednesday night teisho
The route to becoming a zen monk; growing up Jewish and hanging out with the beats; meeting Suzuki Roshi.
Seizei lonely and destitute.
Sunday lecture