Suzuki Roshi - Vine of Obstacles Zen

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Suzuki Roshi

A collection of 4 posts

Suzuki and Nakagawa Roshis Calling Buddha's Name and Bowing Together

Given my interest in One School Zen, I like to gather stories along those lines. The following is one that I stumbled on while searching for something else. It's another involving one of our Soto Zen founders in the US, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and his last visit with Soen Nakagawa

Yasutani, Suzuki, Nakagawa Roshis & One School Zen

Here's another One School Zen piece. This one is from a 1968 San Francisco Zen Center "Windbell" (thanks to Kyoko Henkel for sharing this): "Suzuki Roshi had not known Soen [Nakagawa] Roshi [a Rinzai Zen master] and had only briefly met Yasutani Roshi [a hybrid Soto-Rinzai Zen master pictured above]

Suzuki Shunryū Rōshi and Striving

Now, as for striving and Sōtō Zen - I bet you've it said heard before - Sōtō Zen is about no-gaining mind. And sometimes those who make this one-chopstick assertion cite the Heart Sutra's "no attainment." And yet, the Heart Sutra also teaches "no eyes" - does that suggest that

Blue Cliff Record

Fine Snowflakes, They Don't Fall Elsewhere