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Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai

Shunryu Suzuki, Mel Weitsman, and Michael Wenger

Print publication date: 1999

Print ISBN-13: 9780520219823

Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2012

DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520219823.001.0001

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Eleventh Talk

Eleventh Talk

We Should Not Stick to Words or Rules Too Much (p.152)

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(p.151) Eleventh Talk
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Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness
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University of California Press
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520219823.003.0016

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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