Shunryu Suzuki Lectures

This cuke Suzuki lecture section was quite active years ago. It remains as an ongoing history of posts on the subject, work on the lecture archive, and on particular areas of interest but almost all our efforts now go to shunryusuzuki.com - see next below


shunryusuzuki.com has all the lectures verbatim, edited, audio and enhanced audio, video, photos, three methods of searching through the lectures using various criteria.


The new (late 2019) SFZC Engage Wisdom presentation of Suzuki lectures

Suzuki Roshi dot SFZC dot org/dharma-talks: - with photos and other supporting material - the older SFZC presentation of Suzuki lectures.

All Shunryu Suzuki lectures, lecture notes, and comments from the SFZC's Wind Bell publication scanned and presented here as PDF images with OCR (optical character recognition) along with links to PDFs of the complete Wind Bells.


Shunryu Suzuki Lectures on the Berkeley Zen Center web site


Posts pertaining to Shunryu Suzuki lectures


Autobiographical and some Historical Material
in Suzuki lectures - 
through 1968 - 1969 - 1970 - 1971


Sandokai - Suzuki lectures on plus more


ZMBM.net - a cuke site for Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

ZMBM - cuke home page for the famous book

Beginner's Mind lecture - oldest known version

Beginner's Mind original manuscript for the book ZMBM

Here is a chart for the lectures that went into Zen Mind Beginner's Mind in various versions of light edits.

A newly discovered late draft for ZMBM named Beginner's Mind with handwritten notes and a new lecture for the archive. - posted 4-13-15


Shunryu Suzuki quotes and excerpts from lectures and memories. Related links and material moved from Lecture page to Quote and Excerpt page 9-06-14


Shunryu on Shunryu - from interviews and lectures


Dainin Katagiri in Suzuki lectures


Work in Progress and Recent Work done with Shunryu Suzuki lectures since 2012


the Heart Sutra in Shunryu Suzuki lectures


Documents relating to Shunryu Suzuki Lectures - added 10-30-14


The earliest apparently verbatim lectures from Los Altos - no tape but obviously transcribed as he said it. From these lectures came Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.


Listen to Shunryu Suzuki - on cuke - but all the audio is on shunryusuzuki.com

Chart with info on Lectures - 2014

Chart with info on Lectures with Audio - 2014


Shunryu Suzuki mentions of the Diamond Sutra in his lectures

Talks at different venues
Gives talk at Grace Cathedral June 1968
Shunryu Suzuki's talk at Reed College, March 12, 1971.



Shunryu Suzuki known notes on his lectures from December 1961 through 1962. From the earliest Windbells.


Tony Artino's brief Suzuki Lecture Notes from 1967


Bread, one of Shunryu Suzuki's earliest recorded lectures at the Haiku Zendo in Los Altos.


Shunryu Suzuki's final lectures


Shunryu Suzuki lecture on Whole Body Zazen


Ryaku Fusatsu lectures


THE TRIKĀYA - Edited from six Lotus Sutra Lectures. Scanned from Wind Bell .


Shunryu Suzuki Dharma Talks are  licensed by the SFZC under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.


Footnotes not in some versions of transcripts.