Sotan Ryosen Tatsugami
Photo above from Peter Schneider's Shuso Ceremony, spring 1971 from Betty Warren's photos - more below
Sotan Tatsugami in Crooked Cucumber\
Three lectures by Sotan Tatsugami - Stanford version - featuring comments on Dogen's Fukanzazengi and more.
Fukanzazengi translation by Carl Bielefeldt
Photos of Peter Schneider's 1971 Shuso Ceremony
Use site search box on home page to search for "Tatsugami" and find much on cuke
Use search in shunryusuzuki.com to see 14 lectures with mention of Tatsugami - two excerpts from which mention him from Wind Bells below, one of which is most telling.
Tatsugami in the Tassajara 25 Year Book, Wind Bells, and photo archive below.
Jerry Halpern on Tatsugami.
Tatsugami Roshi in his first training periods at Tassajara lectured on the Fukanzazengi. He introduced the regular evening recitation of it to Tassajara. I associate him particularly with the Fukanzazengi, though at Tassajara he introduced a number of other basic Soto monastic texts and forms.
My recollection of Tatsugami Roshi's final departure from Tassajara is this: It occurred, purposely, I believe, toward the beginning of the sitting before lunch. Quiet. All in order. The "students" in their places; in the zendo; practicing zazen.
Just after Tatsugami Roshi left the zendo to depart from Tassajara, the Ino, Jane Westberg [Schneider], from the dais where she sat, asked everyone to get up and give him an enthusiastic send off. Only three or four of us, including myself and Frances Thompson continued to sit.
Jerry Halpern
9-27-16
Also from Jerry -
My recollection of an encounter with Tatsugami Roshi at shosan. I am mentioning it to you in praise of Tatsugami. I do not think he was given proper appreciation at the January, 2008 reunion at Page Street of Tassajara practitioners from 1967-1992. - Jerry
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Jerry: When speaking is only noise, and not speaking is only silence,
When acting is only confusion, and not acting misses the opportunity,
What then?
Tatsugami Roshi:
You have strong attachments. Do not be so attached and you will see what it is.
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His response (slowed slightly by the need for interpretation) was immediate.
“Seeing the rabbit, he looses the falcon”
Tatsugami in the Tassajara 25 Year Book
Tatsugami in the Wind Bells (and the 25 Year Book above)
Winter 1970, page 23
p30
1973
P45
Spring 1988
P27 - Mel Weitsman lecture
Spring 1992
Mel Weitsman lecture
Summer 1994
P6 - Shunryu Suzuki lecture January 10, 1971
Spring Summer 2000
P16
Tatsugami in shunryusuzuki.com photo archive - click on file name for more info
SR0054 Tatsuaami Sotan Ryosen + Grahame Petchey + Phillip Wilson at Eihei-ji
SR0133 Tassajara teachers and officers L to R: Paul Discoe, Jane Westberg (Schneider), Shunryu Suzuki, Peter Schneider, Sotan Tatsugam, Dan Welch, Ryogen Yoshimura, Francis Thompson, Niels Holm, Margret Kress.
SR0069 Shunryu Suzuki mountain seat ceremony. SFZC, Page Street SR on left in white, Sotan Tatsugami in fancy robes, Claude Dalenberg standing, Katagiri seated to his right
SR0090 Day of Mel Weitsman's shuso ceremony at Tassajara
SR0346 City Center ceremony
