鈴木 ( 祥岳 ) 俊隆 Suzuki (Shōgaku) Shunryū (1904-1971)

Dharma name: 祥岳俊隆 Shōgaku Shunryū
Name used in Western culture: Shunryu Suzuki

Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, a Japanese Zen priest belonging to the Soto lineage, came to San Francisco in 1959 at the age of fifty-four. Already a respected Zen master in Japan, he was impressed by the seriousness and quality of "beginner's mind" among Americans he met who were interested in Zen and decided to settle here. As more and more people of non-Japanese background joined him in meditation, the San Francisco Zen Center came into being and he was its first abbot. Under his tutelage, Zen Center grew into City Center, Green Gulch Farm, and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. He was undoubtedly one of the most influential Zen teachers of his time.

Shunryû Suzuki rôshi and his relationship with
Kôjun Noiri (1914-2007) rôshi

MW: '71. Suzuki-roshi had asked Dick to see if he could invite Noiri-roshi to come to America to help us with authentic procedures for dharma transmission.

DC: He mentioned that to Ananda. Are you sure he mentioned it to Dick?

MW: It was common knowledge. Everybody knew it. I can't remember how it exactly came about. Suzuki-roshi wanted Noiri to teach us about dharma transmission because he didn't want us to do dharma transmission like they do it in Japan. He wanted us to have a meaningful dharma transmission, original dharma transmission which was more selective and not just handing out certificates. He didn't want it superficially or perfunctorily done.

DC: Suzuki-roshi had asked Noiri-roshi to come to a Tassajara Practice Period when he was well and he hadn't.

MW: Here was the thing that I heard. Both Niwa and Noiri had the same teacher, Kishizawa, and they were both going to be very prominent. So he asked one to be the recluse scholar and asked the other one to face the public. So Noiri-roshi was asked to be the scholar, the recluse, and the monk; and Niwa-roshi was asked to be the public face. That's the way they developed. They were dharma brothers.

[Hoitsu Suzuki Interviewed in Japanese by David Chadwick, translated by Kyoko Furuhashi and Shizuko Takatsuka.]

"In Showa 22 there was a jukai e (lay ordination ceremony) for lots of people, 400 or so, at Rinsoin and it was officiated by Kishizawa Roshi. My father thought people's minds were in a bad state because of the war so he decided to give the jukai e. [In this way, by strengthening Buddhism and helping to spread the teaching of Kishizawa Roshi, he felt he could help to strengthen the country. Kishizawa Roshi was a nationally prominent teacher and my father respected him greatly??] He didn't go as far as zuishin (follow mind) with Kishizawa. He was monkasei of Kishizawa but not deshi or zuishin.

"Kishizawa's temple is only 4 kilometers from Rinsoin. He was a well known great scholar of Shobogenzo and Goi. Noiri was a zuishin of Kishizawa and although he wasn't Kishizawa's disciple he studied hardest. Many studied with Kishizawa."

"I don't know. (looks for a book) Taisho 12 - Gyokuden-in kaisan (founding) - Kishizawa became the jushoku of that temple then."

David Chadwick: Why did Katagiri Roshi send you to Noiri Roshi's sesshin? Did he have a connection to Noiri?

Tomoe-san: Yes. You remember Yokoi Roshi? Yokoi Roshi [横井覚道 Yokoi Kakudō] is Hojo-san's very closest friend. And he respected Yokoi Roshi very much. Close friend. Same branch temple. And Noiri Roshi's temple was the branch temple of Rinsoin. The temple has a relation. Yokoi Roshi and Noiri Roshi have the same master -- Ian Kishizawa. Noiri Roshi is his disciple. And Yokoi Roshi was Ian Kishizawa's grand disciple. His master was Ian Kishizawa roshi's disciple. Chito Kishizawa. He was Kishizawa Roshi's direct disciple. He was not his son. . . . Kishizawa's school. Kishizawa's school never married. Nobody married. But Kishizawa Roshi adopted the child. Chito Kishizawa is not the blood child, but was adopted. So has the same last name. Has a dharma relation, but no blood relation. So Yokoi Roshi was Ian Kishizawa's grand disciple. And Noiri Roshi is Ian Kishizawa Roshi's disciple. So they practiced together. And Hojo-san also respected Kishizawa and Noiri Roshi. And he knows the way of Kishizawa and Noiri Roshi's practice. So when Kishizawa and Noiri Roshi had one-week sesshin he was invited as a teacher. Hojo-san and Yokoi Roshi suggested I go to one-week sesshin.

Funeral ceremony conducted by Niwa-rōshi, Katagiri-rōshi, and Moriyama-sensei [the young disciple of Noiri-rōshi] for Shunryū Suzuki rōshi on December 12, 1971.

For Shunryu Suzuki 's edited words see:
Szudzuki Sunrjú zen mester magyarul nyomtatásban és online:

Tartalom

Contents

Shunryu Suzuki
[akadémiai ajánlás szerinti magyar átírás: Szudzuki Sunrjú]
Kezdőké a zen szellem
[Terebess Gábor címfordítása, egy latin szállóige:
„Bátraké a szerencse” mintájára.]

Shunryu Suzuki
A zen szellem, az örök kezdők szelleme
[ford. Halasi Sándor]
Buddhista Misszió, Budapest, 1987.
[Kalózkiadásban: Farkas Lőrinc Imre Könyvkiadó, Kerepes, 2002]
Online html > pdf

Suzuki Shunryu: Te görbe uborka!
[ford. Halasi Sándor]

Sunrjú Szuzuki
Zen szellem, a kezdő szellem — Rögtönzött beszédek a zen meditációról
[ford. Boros Dókó László]
Budapest : Filosz, 2002, 189 oldal
Online pdf > pdf2

Sunrjú Szuzuki
Nincs mindig úgy — A zen igaz szellemének gyakorlása
[ford. Boros László]
Budapest : Filosz, 2006, 2016, 207 oldal
Tartalomjegyzék - Részletek
Olvasás
Online pdf

Sunrjú Szuzuki
Tisztán ragyogó forrás — Zen tanítások a Szandókairól
[ford. Fábián Gábor]
Budapest : Filosz, 2010, 208 oldal
Részletek
Olvasás
Online pdf

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind:
Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Edited by Trudy Dixon*
Weatherhill, 1970, 144 p.
PDF: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind > 50th Anniversary Edition

HTML: Shunryu Suzuki original lectures
that led to "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"

Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness:
Zen Talks on the Sandokai
Eds. Mel Weitsman and Michael Wenger, University of California Press, 1999, 197 p.
PDF: Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness

HTML: Shunryu Suzuki original lectures
that led to "Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness"

Not Always So:
Practicing the True Spirit of Zen
Edited by Edward Espe Brown
Harper Collins, 2002, 176 p.
PDF: Not Always So

HTML: Shunryu Suzuki original lectures
that led to "Not Always So"

Crooked Cucumber:
the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
by David Chadwick
Broadway Books, 1999, 432 p.

PDF: Zen Is Right Here & Now: Teaching stories and anecdotes

Zen Is Right Here:
Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki
Anecdote Index
Edited by David Chadwick
Shambhala Publications, 2007, 160 p.
was originally published as
PDF: To Shine One Corner of the World: Moments with Shunryu Suzuki.

PDF: Le zen est juste ici - Témoignages et anecdotes sur l'enseignement de Shunryu Suzuki,
tr. Daniel Roche

Shunryu Suzuki Lectures
http://www.shunryusuzuki.com/suzuki/sf.htm

Chronology of Shunryu Suzuki's Life

http://www.cuke.com/
http://www.shunryusuzuki.com/
http://www.zmbm.net/

PDF: Teaching Zen to Americans by Kim Boykin (2010)
Philip Kapleau's The Three Pillars of Zen, Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Charlotte Joko Beck's Everyday Zen

PDF: Suzuki Roshi Transcripts (1962-1971)

PDF: Wind Bell, Vol. XI. 1972

Zen lineage chart of Shunryu Suzuki roshi (HTML) > PDF

PDF: Wind bell teachings from the San Francisco Zen Center, 1968-2001

PDF: Zen Mountain Center Report, Wind Bell, Vol. VI. Nos. 2-4. Fall 1967

PDF: Shoes outside the door
by Michael Downing

Trudy Dixon (1939-1969, Dharma name: 梅峰攝心 Baihō Sesshin). She was an early student of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi who transcribed and edited his classic book of talks, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.
Suzuki Roshi described her as a "real Zen master."

Suzuki-roshi's two calligraphies (如来 nyorai and 初心 shoshin) from the book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind:

『初心・禅心』 (Japanese edition with Suzuki-roshi's calligraphy)
如来 Nyorai (Tathāgata)
The calligraphy on the front of the binding reads 如来 nyorai in Japanese or tathagata in Sanskrit. This is a name for Buddha which means "he who has followed the path, who has returned from suchness, or is suchness, thusness, isness, emptiness, the fully completed one." It is the ground principle which makes the appearance of a Buddha possible. It is Zen mind. At the time Suzuki-roshi wrote this calligraphy— using for a brush the frayed end of one of the large swordlike leaves of the yucca plants that grow in the mountains around Zen Mountain Center—he said: "This means that Tathagata is the body of the whole earth."
(Introduction to the 1970 edition of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, by Richard Baker). More yucca leaf calligraphy

《禅者的初心》 (Chinese edition with Suzuki-roshi's calligraphy)
初心 Shoshin (Beginner's Mind)
禅心俊隆叟 Zenshin (Zen Mind) Shunryū sō (Old Shunryū)
Beginner's mind was a favorite expression of Dogen-zenji's. The calligraphy of the frontispiece, also by Suzuki-roshi, reads 初心 shoshin, or beginner's mind. The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing. This is the way of practice moment after moment.
(Introduction to the 1970 edition of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, by Richard Baker)

Two yucca leaf calligraphy sumie given by Shunryu Suzuki to Bob Watkins (1933 -2016):

佛祖正傳菩薩大戒血脈
Busso shōden bosatsu daikai kechimyaku
The Bloodline of the Buddha's and Ancestors' Transmission of the Great Bodhisattva Precepts

It is worth mentioning that the line gets splitted apart
at Dajian Huineng and join back up at Eihei Dōgen
as the left-hand side is the Rinzai (Linji) line*,
and the right-hand side is the Sōtō (Caodong) line**,
reflecting Dōgen's early teacher Myōzen, as well as Rujing.

* 【黄檗・臨済系　法系】
南嶽懐譲和尚様から
佛樹明全和尚様

31/4. Daii Dōshin
(Dayi Daoxin 大毉道信 580-651)

32/5. Daiman Kōnin
(Daman Hongren 大滿弘忍 601-674)

34/7. Nangaku Ejō (Nanyue Huairang 南嶽懷讓 677-744)	34/7. Seigen Gyōshi (Qingyuan Xingsi 青原行思 660?-740)
35/8. Baso Dōitsu (Mazu Daoyi 馬祖道一 709-788)	35/8. Sekitō Kisen (Shitou Xiqian 石頭希遷 700-790)
36/9. Hyakujō Ekai (Baizhang Huaihai 百丈懷海 720-814)	36/9. Yakusan Igen (Yaoshan Weiyan 藥山惟儼 751-834)
37/10. Ōbaku Kiun (Huangbo Xiyun 黃蘗希運 ?-850?)	37/10. Ungan Donjō (Yunyan Tansheng 雲巌曇晟 780-841)
The Linji (Rinzai) Patriarchs:	The Caodong (Sōtō) Patriarchs:
38/11. Rinzai Gigen (Linji Yixuan 臨濟義玄 ?-866)	38/11. Tōzan Ryōkai (Dongshan Liangjie 洞山良价 807-869)
39/12. Kōke Zonshō (Xinghua Cunjiang 興化存獎 830-888)	39/12. Ungo Dōyō (Yunju Daoying 雲居道膺 830-902)
40/13. Nan'in Egyō (Nanyuan Huiyong 南院慧顒 860-930)	40/13. Dōan Dōhi (Tongan Daopi 同安道丕 n.d.)
41/14. Fūketsu Enshō (Fengxue Yanzhao 風穴延沼 896-973)	41/14. Dōan Kanshi (Tongan Guanzhi 同安觀志 n.d.)
42/15. Shuzan Shōnen (Shoushan Xingnian 首山省念 926-993)	42/15. Ryōzan Enkan (Liangshan Yuanguan 梁山緣觀 n.d.)
43/16. Funyō Zenshō (Fenyang Shanzhao 汾陽善昭 947-1024)	43/16. Taiyō Kyōgen (Dayang Jingxuan 大陽警玄 943-1027)
44/17. Sekisō Soen (Shishuang Chuyuan 石霜楚圓 986-1039)	44/17. Tōshi Gisei (Touzi Yiqing 投子義青 1032-1083)
45/18. Ōryū Enan (Huanglong Huinan 黃龍慧南 1002-1069)	45/18. Fuyō Dōkai (Furong Daokai 芙蓉道楷 1043-1118)
46/19. Kaidō Soshin (Huitang Zuxin 晦堂祖心 1025-1100)	46/19. Tanka Shijun (Danxia Zichun 丹霞子淳 1064-1117)
47/20. Reigen Isei (Lingyuan Weiqing 靈源惟清 ?-1117)	47/20. Chōro Seiryō [Shinketsu ~] (Changlu Qingliao [Zhenxie ~] 長蘆清了 [真歇] 1089-1151)
48/21. Chōrei Shutaku (Changling Shouzhuo 長靈守卓 c.1060-1130)	48/21. Tendō Shōkaku [Wanshi ~] (Tiantong Zhengjue [Hongzhi ~] 天童宗珏 [宏智] 1091-1157)
49/22. Muji Kaijin (Wushi Jiechen 無示介諶 c.1080-1148)	49/22. Setchō Chikan (Xuedou Zhijian 雪竇智鑑 1105-1192)
50/23. Mannen Donkan (Wannian Tanguan 萬年曇貫 c.1100-117	50/23. Tendō Nyojō (Tiantong Rujing 天童如淨 1162-1227)
51/24. Setsuan Jūkin (Xuean Congjin 雪庵從瑾 c.1117-1200)
52/25. Koan Eshō (Xuan Huaichang 虛庵懷敞 c.1125-1195)
The Japanese Rinzai Patriarchs:
53/26/1. Myōan Eisai (明菴栄西 1141-1215)
54/27/2. Ryōnen Myōzen (了然明全 1184–1225)

87/60/37. Butsumon Sogaku
(佛門祖學 1858-1933)
[鈴木俊隆 Suzuki Shunryū's father; Gyokujun So-on's master]

89/62/39. Shōgaku Shunryū
(祥岳俊隆 1904-1971)
[鈴木老師 Suzuki rōshi]

鈴木大拙貞太郎 Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō, scholar and lay student of Shaku Sōen, Rinzai school; 釈宗演 Shaku Sōen (1860-1919), heir of 今北洪川 Imakita Kōsen (1816-1892), Rinzai school.

When people would confuse Shunryu Suzuki with the Harvard professor D.T. Suzuki, the roshi would say simply, "No, he's the big Suzuki, I'm the little Suzuki."

師は自分のことを偉大な禅学者鈴木大拙氏と比較して、 「小さな鈴木」 と謙遜して紹介したと言われます。しかしその功績はとても大きなものがありました。

Shunryu Suzuki mestert ha Amerikában néhanap összetévesztették D. T. Suzukival, tréfásan válaszolt:
- Nem, én csak a kis Suzuki vagyok, ő a nagy Suzuki.

For Shunryu Suzuki 's edited words see: Szudzuki Sunrjú zen mester magyarul nyomtatásban és online:

For Shunryu Suzuki 's edited words see:
Szudzuki Sunrjú zen mester magyarul nyomtatásban és online: