When You Have a New Experience — Shunryu Suzuki Roshi — Archived Dharma Talk — Aug. 20, 1967

Описание: In this archived talk, given during the first sesshin at Tassajara, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi addresses members of the new monastic community as they confront breakthroughs they may have had as part of their intensive training at Tassajara, which he knew would be even more likely during a long sesshin. The beginning of the talk was not recorded, and according to notes on the original transcript, Suzuki Roshi was talking about “four stages … belief, intellectual understanding, practice, and enlightenment” (these are mentioned in the Lotus Sutra). Naturally, for a Zen talk, part of the advice given during the talk is that students should not rely on these as a series of progressions. In fact, Suzuki Roshi cautions with a laugh, the stages may occur in a different order altogether. Students should also not be attached to giving their experience a name like “kensho,” the traditional “seeing one’s own nature” definition of enlightenment, even if that was something they had been striving to attain in their practice. Recorded on Aug. 20, 1967.

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