- Title Pages
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- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Sekito Kisen and the Sandokai
- Notes to the Reader
- The Sandokai
- First Talk
- Second Talk
- Third Talk
- Fourth Talk
- Fifth Talk
- Sixth Talk
- Seventh Talk
- Eighth Talk
- Ninth Talk
- Tenth Talk
- A Short Talk During Aazen
- Eleventh Talk
- Twelfth Talk
- Talk Given to a Visiting Class
- Oneness of One and Many
- Lineage Chart of Teachers Mentioned in the Text
Eleventh Talk
Eleventh Talk
We Should Not Stick to Words or Rules Too Much (p.152)
- Chapter:
- (p.151) Eleventh Talk
- Source:
- Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter presents a transcript of Suzuki Roshi's eleventh talk on the Sandokai. It focuses on these lines from the poem: Hearing the words, understand the meaning; don't set up standards of your own. If you don't understand the way right before you, how will you know the path as you walk?
Keywords: Suzuki Roshi, Sandokai, words
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Sekito Kisen and the Sandokai
- Notes to the Reader
- The Sandokai
- First Talk
- Second Talk
- Third Talk
- Fourth Talk
- Fifth Talk
- Sixth Talk
- Seventh Talk
- Eighth Talk
- Ninth Talk
- Tenth Talk
- A Short Talk During Aazen
- Eleventh Talk
- Twelfth Talk
- Talk Given to a Visiting Class
- Oneness of One and Many
- Lineage Chart of Teachers Mentioned in the Text