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Almost every time he's mentioned except for a lot of repeats on him being editor of Wind Bells and a few times when it didn't add anything at all. Only searched for "baker" so might have missed some places where it was just Richard, Dick, or Zentatsu. Can't search on this page because the Wind Bell excerpts are all image files. - dc

 

1963-08

 

1964-01

 

 

 

 

1964-07

 

 

Machine generated alternative text: NEWS Pat Hurestwff. Jan Ross. Dick atd Grahame Petchey are ail Japnese this segnester. We have cards from In Norm Suegelmeyer in Gernany,

 

 

1964-08

 

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Fall 1966

 

Machine generated alternative text: Credits for the following photos of the Mountain Center Site are: Pg. 4, Robert S. Boni (top), kichard Baker

 

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January - February 1967

Machine generated alternative text: By mid-spring the number of students living at Tassajara had increased to about thirty. A professor of philosophy from a New York university and a Jungian analyst joined the regular Zen Center students. Ed Brown, a Zen student who had been the assistant cook at Tassajara the previous year, returned this spring in the capacity Of head cook. At this time Dick and Silas Hoadley, President and Treasurer res- pectively Of Zen Center, could only come down On weekends or for a few days each week because Of the immediate pressures in San Francisco to work on business mat- ters from that end: insurance, purchases, how to meet the payments, how to Organ- ize the practice period, etc. Suzuki Roshi, the Abbot (DOCh0 Roshi) Of Zen Mountain Center and head Of Zen Center, also had many responsibilities in San Francisco, both with Zen Center and with the Japanese congregation, and he was unable to be at Zenshinji more than every Other week or so. AS a result, much Of the moment by moment responsibility for finding a way to live together, to complete

 

 Machine generated alternative text: The Brochure The brochure describing the land was planned and written by Richard Baker, and designed by peter Bailey Of East Wind Printers. Its fine pho- tographs of the land, given by Bob Boni, Morley Baer, and Tom Buckley, were major contributions in eliciting support for the purchase of the property.

 

 

Machine generated alternative text: EAST COAST VISIT Richard Éak& returned January 18 from a month in the East. mostly in New York City. He talked with many persons about the prospective Zen mountain center, gave several lectures, one to a group Of scientists and intellectual business leaders, and he reports that the interest in Zen and in the Orient in general seems greatly increased over a few years ago. While he found this interest most apparent among the young, many older people seem to be open and curious. He will return to the East for two weeks with Suzuki Roshi around February 20, in order to meet with a number of people interested in finding out more about the mountain center. Suzuki Roshi plans also at this time to visit and lead a sesshin with the meditation group in Northampton, Massachusetts.

  

Machine generated alternative text: ALPHA BRAIN WAVE STUDY Katagiri Sensei and four Zen students (three from the Los Altos and one from the Berkeley meditation centers) were subjects in a scientific study of alpha brain waves in November and December of the past year. The project is conducted by Dr. Joe Kamiya of the Langley Porter Neuropsy- chiatric Institute in San Francisco. He is interested in discovering how, and to what extent, it is possible for human beings to control their own alpha brain waves. Dr. Kamiya did some of the original research on dream sleep and coined the phrase that you 'sleep in order to dream,' which reverses Freud's statement that you dream in order to sleep. He became interested in meditators when he discovered that they could learn to control their brain waves in his experiment in about four hours instead of the usual forty hours. Dr. Kamiya will lecture on 'Introspection as Internal Com- munication' this spring in a University of California Extension conference Olysqgununication organized by Richard Baker, president Of Zen Center.

 

 

Fall 1967

 

Machine generated alternative text: By mid-spring the number of students living at Tassajara had increased to about thirty. A professor of philosophy from a New York university and a Jungian analyst joined the regular Zen Center students. Ed Brown, a Zen student who had been the assistant cook at Tassajara the previous year, returned this spring in the capacity Of head cook. At this time Dick Baku and Silas Hoadley, President and Treasurer res- pectively Of Zen Center, could only come down on weekends or for a few days each week because Of the immediate pressures in San Francisco to work on business mat- ters from that end: insurance, purchases, how to meet the payments, how to Organ- ize the practice period, etc. Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, the Abbot (DOCh0 Roshi) Of Zen

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Machine generated alternative text: THE FIRST PRACTICE PERIOD In the evening before the practice period opened, the first ordination ceremony at Zenshinji took place when Dick Baker had his head shaved, was given the name Zentatsu Myoyti, and Was appointed Shuso Or head student for the first practice period. The next day at one o'clock, Bishop Sumi Roshi, Suzuki Roshi, Katagiri Sensei. Kato Sensei. and Maezumi Sensei opened the practice period and installed the Buddha in the zendo. This ceremony gave the students a sense Of respect for the tra- dition which brought Buddhism and the teachers to them, and also an awareness that What is J in Zen cannot be made American all at once. If the tree that has been transplanted at Tassajara is stripped Of its branches and bark it Will die, but if it is nourished and allowed to take root the new soil of America will subtly bring the tree into accord with its new life,

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Machine generated alternative text: About 9 p.m. in the middle of evening zazen. The ' 'flying saucers" above the students on the far left and right are reflections on the camera lensfrom the kerosene lanterns. The bright light on the altar is candle. On the altar, center left and right, Roshi and Sensei; on the far left and right, Dick Baker and Phil Wilson.

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Machine generated alternative text: CEREMONY Soto mon"tery the Ceret—y Shiki' between Shuso and would take the end of practice but so there tir;ie it the with delay end of Briod until Bishop Sumi On 19 the held in the the who participated in the Suzuki Rosh' described the Shuso in this "Each practice period we appoint Shuso to be head of leader of For the the of being Sbuso. head of the and by the students in the Discussion marks the second in Foe at Myoyu was appointed He fiot pri"t appointed in Ceæmony is very old. It in still in r. in Japan i' is often more of formality than the Japan, H often young student the Zen that presupp maturity. young the answers which to y to original content and feeling. Baku. is his than his Japan. esc counterpart. No were out. Chino told which their of which probed of the The quetion discussed until they felt matter was the Something expected from the ShusO the tendo with skeptical a Student usually asked a to "t the A st"nge sti'k. a Vajra Saff, which had made by Chino t blein and offering incense, slowly (Abbot Suzuki) received Vajra Staff from He returned to his D'Xho pounded twice on the with his ready for your questions," student at the Shaw, leaped to hi. feet, "d KWA Then he slowly walked d the Th.e and the Shuso asked. "Do Wu hm anything to say

 

Machine generated alternative text: The student . and walked back, to the "t Student his to the do of my the Shuso, "You seem to be there to I see the Or from S 'Why Suzuki Rashi o ? ' ' The to Fr mes can Study Zen as well in Japan. The is, what this 'you' that you think don't in right," "id Shuso, "No if." And the student. "Me asking, that a The "No no that The of its aemnity and . but cl"r.ged *ion the Shuso and to for the pulsing life that the ancient to Aft" 'he altar With his Staff. ted their Chino "In When all had p of dæp a diwiple of como to L': lations." from the students g the ceremony Bishop Sumi R"" a mwin with his congratulations, saying how he felt the Of his faith the in T

 

Machine generated alternative text: Above left: Silas Hoadley right: Tim Buckley Left: Dick Baker in his cabin o ce. Ile generator is not on very o en and so for light two or three kerosene lan- terns and one coleman gasoline lantern are used. Through the window is the far bank Of the Stream.

 

Machine generated alternative text: Althou* Tassajara was developed by the group as a whole. there are certain individuals whose contributions deserve mention. Richard Baker, the President of Zen Center and Director of Zen Mountain Center, knowing that Suzuki Roshi would like land for a monastery, found that land, conceived and wrote about it in the first brochure, led the fund-raising and was the first Shuso. Silas Hoadley, the Treasurer of Zen Center and Associate Director of Zen Mountain Center, led the fund raising with Dick Baker, organized the guest season, and was 'ble through the confidence he generated to get large contributions from friends and acquire loans during difficult periods. Peter Schneider, the Assistant Director.

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Richard and Virginia Baker are listed as donors toward the purchase of Tassajara on p.34

 

Machine generated alternative text: SUZUKI ROSHI SPEAKS IN NEW YORK On March 8th, Suzuki Roshi gave a public lecture entitled "The Practice of Zen" which was attended by about 600 persons at the Community Church (Unitarian) in New York City. The lecture was organized by Peter Schneider and sponsored by the Young Adults of the Community Church. The lecture was scheduled to beén at 8:00 but the audience. which was the bigest Suzuki Roshi had ever spoken to, was not seated until 8:30. Following the lecture Suzuki Roshi and Dick Bake' answered questions for another hour and a half. Several students who are now at Zen Mountain Center first heard about it then.

 

Machine generated alternative text: SUZUKI ROSHI'S TRIP EAST AND OTHER ZEN GROUPS Last W Birthday flew Eag xccompanied by Richard R" to "'Shin the Northampton, Zen Zendg news). to "d at the Cambridge Buddhist Society. They had a visit with Elsie and John Mitchell and the A Of in the Boston in New and to find about Zen Cc n t.. Rushi felt it Id a idea visit people if to Visit Zen in the East to find Wt more 'Soot in and erv courage more They visited a of people that Alan Watts and ROShi Impressed With the Zen group in led by phÄip Roshi meditated With them and then talked briefly the of having a good Richanl —d Cent" the practice period this at it revolutionary Philip'. book. of Zen, has cnti" Zen in Am.ica. a parti- .rudents. did no: from that Students had much better understanding of what a What of "toti in is, Zen they had a yea: the book and accurately, before Of it published. In copy OfT%e Of Philip mte, "On top of flagpole a COW birth to calf." Thi. We birth is on top Of There is new in and a large put of it the Of this Suzuki Dick Were to join the meditation Of the Studies Society in New This an to study Zen where there is visible to Zen Eido their visiting at time and so unfortunately to meet him. A Of Students the Zen Studies S*iety at Zen Center this spring and summer. At the Zen Institute in New York City we Mary a few men. of their voup. but We no: able there during They building, and the Zen in VISIT During the week in Ro.hi Mrs. Suzuki visited Mike and Trudy at It is the HE Ranch, working cattle and ranch in Saddlestring. Wycming Buffalo). of in west. 12,000 stretch up to granite and firs of the Big Mountains. The ranch With deer. antelope, well 140 horse,' and It of

 

Unmentioned is that they drove out with the Bakers.

 

Machine generated alternative text: Ten years ago Shunryu Suzuki—or Suzuki Roshi, "Roshi" meaning Zen Master— came to San Francisco to lead a congregation of Japanese-Americans. Soon he found many non-Orientals coming to learn about Zen. This led to the opening Of Zen Center, which promptly became SO active an assistant had to be brought from Japan to help out. Yet city distractions made it difficult for students to concentrate for long periods on Zen training. A quiet retreat was needed, not only for San Franciscans but any other Americans wanting to learn meditation, Richard Baker, a young Oriental Studies scholar who organizes national conferences for the University of California while also serving as President of the Zen Center, heard of the ideal place. An undeveloped section of the Tassajara Hot Springs resort deep in the ruFd Santa Lucia Mountains of coastal Monterey County was for sale.

From Village Voice article on Tassajara by Jack Goddard

 

Machine generated alternative text: z.e„ Rites Baker, Who studying Zen for years, was raised to teacher in forma Zen ceremony while "s Zen in this valley you can of

 

Machine generated alternative text: from San and up from Lb. The daily Mon reey Herald, even a reporter up the twisting road to covet the The Zen rites Dick's ._mting Of fM opening and mind. He answered by Schneider, who jumped his "id; the the fins". finger have the "Buddha the "What is lift it with ten

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Machine generated alternative text: OLD RESORT Now A ZEN CENTER By Mac Bove, San Mercury. Friday 25, 967. TASSAJ ARA HOT SPRINGS- clink of dish„re the only sound from the they silently under the tree. thi. fanner They Vere students and Zen priests at Cent« of the Heart Mind, Meditation is one of the keystones of Zen training—walking meditation and Sitting The Mountain Center Of "d physical tainins W"tcrn is parable, in oppm-tunity fot of Zen to meditate and study the philosophy. don't think many it," Baker. 31, of San a priest of the centu. said. 'We had hundred applications our month training period Of we eighty-five, We Or thO" interviews determine their sincerity. Then Came a Of meditation in a position to pm with bmks fcw "It d too for people it is one of the hardest thin. they have ever done," Baker said. Sixty of the students it Life is Simple hidden Efty The and priests simple food as and fruit. Lunch dinner may be soup vegetables or brown Alcohol drue pwhibited. at during the day is Men 's living and bathing quarters, except fot married "y Star" at a.m. With Of specially cast pæsented to the by a Zen monastery in days in sitting and "Ikins rmGtation, with mewls periods. The and Rhabilitating the f"iliri" used by the when they travellea over the roads to in the hot Less day is formal instruction, usually a by Suzuki Zen Rosbi—the Rashi stands for up temple Of his in eight to the United to Zen . , . Roshi a opportunity fM in the "You are with conceptions Buddhism." he "You have traditions one another we in Orient." of student. Most of return to outside life after the two Or of ruining mountaiM. A may so on to ruin the priothc-ed. the but, Biker. there is no attempt to it into

  

Machine generated alternative text: of the students shave their and long hair on men is forbidden in but few cases. Like the East Indian who at gates to admitted twining.. Rules flexible, Baker, vegetarian Of the Buddhist killins, will eat t if it is at friend's "Rules Suzuki ' 'They when they The hot mineral have no place in center's training frequently used by both pri"ts. ' 'We to keep open to public," "We don't feel it —Id be close them to people who have been using them years in the PSI." OpentiOn of up-uted to bring profits. "We'll be quite happy if break even, he said. itself is per day begin c Baker. Contributions the major Zen Center in the students just from people s not life, with the outside world is kept to is Twice a into for and the telephone, except in is only for one hour day. tries to his he his in his Students in sesshin, the days of meditation Which is for m-iccs a brief period, A q"iet i" the

 

Machine generated alternative text: Shunryu M' , ZEN CENTER TRUSTEES: baker, Lin" Toni Kwong, Can ROS'. Betty ZEN CENTER Pres.; ZEN MOUNTAIN cE,vrER OFFICERS: Richard Baker, Silas Hoadley. Associate Schneider. Director; Fran

  

Machine generated alternative text: PRIESTS; Baku Lim" Bill ZEN CENTER OFFICERS: BELL Baku. Binkley. Tin b, b, Aoki. Ban, XABLE OF CONT ENTS 1 ZEN CENTER REPORT Why Zen NEWS Trip of In Ruth 13 20 20 21 25 27 period First Dai i y Students puns 40 42 44 as EARLY HISTORY OF TASS"" NEWSPAPER STORIES TRANSLATION LECTURES Stu 63 R 's Mind 6' Kat"üi to 69 R ad n period Daily lectures Co by Dainin ZEN SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY THROUGH FRIDÅY AFFILIATED CENTERS BERKELEY, 1670 Dwight Way. 854-2403 zazen. Fri. 5:45 — 6:45 m Los ALTOS. 746 9485020 Fri. 5:45 - 7:30 5:45 — 9:00 a.m. rhu„day 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. MILL V ALLEY, Wist«ia Way & Almonte Blvd. 3885835 thru Fri, 5:45 6:45 5:45 — 5:30 - Wan "day Lecture 7:30 — SATURDAY SUNDAY stoo - Telephoæ 346-0442 6;45 a.m. 6; 30 p 9; 00 p 9:00 . a 9 FRANCISCO, LOS ALTOS: Be" is 12 F, a' this of chi,

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Summer 1968

 

Machine generated alternative text: Back in 1965, the total Zen Center income was S6,612 and the officers were able to do all the administrative work in their spare time. Even as late as March, 1967, President Dick Baker and Treasurer Silas Hoadley could still handle everything with the help of one part-time secretary who wrote thank- you notes. But this year both Dick and Yvonne Rand are salaried, and Silas, John Steiner and Claude Dahlenberg, who have independent incomes, are

 

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Machine generated alternative text: CHANGE OF OFFICERS At the end of May Dick resigned as President of Zen Center, Director of Zen Mountain Center, and Editor of the Wind Bell in order to prepare for his extended trip to Japan this October. Gary Snyder is giving Dick his house in Kyoto to rent and Dick plans stay there for a year to learn Japanese and to practice at Antaiji and Daitokuji. After that he will spend several months each at Eiheiji and Sojiji. the two Soto training monasteries, and then some time at a Rinzai Zen monastery and perhaps Shingon and Tendai temples before returning to the United States. As Dick will be representing Zen Center while in Japan, and will be returning later to Zen Center. we wish to sponsor him and his family. Any contributions towards their support would be welcome.

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Machine generated alternative text: PRIESTS: Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Zen Master; Dainin Katagiri Sensei, Instructor; Kobun Chino Sensei. Assistant Instructor; Richard Baker, Claude Dahlenberg, Phillip Wilson. ZEN CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Richard Baker, Tim Buckley. Claude Silas Bill Jean ROSS, Peter Schneider. ZEN CENTER OFFICERS; Silas Hoadley, President; Claude Dahlenberg, peter Schneider, Tilin Buckley, Vice Presidents; Yvonne Rand, Secretary; John Steiner. Treasurer. ZEN MOUMAIN CENTER OFFICERS: Schneider. Director: Silas Hoadley, Associate Director; Tim Buckley, Assistant Director; Kobun Chino Sensei, Zendo Director; Dan Welch, Assistant Zendo Director; Ed Brown, Head Cook; Paul Discoc, Work Foreman. WIND BELL STAFF: Peter Schneider, Senior Editor; Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and Richard Baker, Editorial Advisors; Tim Buckley and J J. Wilson, Editors; Ruth Discoe and Dan Gurley, Copy Editors; peter Bailey, Designer; Patricia Latvala, Composition; East Wind Printers, Printing; Taiji Kiyokawa, Art; Jack Elias, Mailing; Tim Buckley. Robert Boni and Kazuhiro Tsuruta, photos, The voluntary subscription price of the Wind Bell is S2 per year.

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Fall 1968

 

Machine generated alternative text: IN MEMORIAM CHESTER F. CARLSON by Richard On September 9th, Chester F. a benefactor Of A the first Of Mountain Center, died i" New York. following is a to Carlson by Dick Baker, Who the funeral with Suzuki Roghi at Mrs. request, Carlson must him, for exceeded we it for a human be. How a m" accomplish so and yet live on the fragile edge of what it to a of the beyora, the g«ater than cons.y the be with ephemeral quality of his life in way öving to listen to do So good in his life and world when he knows it to be continually passing away? perhaps such a man best be by a gende who liked ta listen: but within that there a clarity tlut malized possibilities for all of us. He did plish a great deal. Although he to remain at least some Of things he He solely c of completed of the imn ting whole new field scientific h one Of the largest he s of the best patent ever, his being law he was of the phaanthropists Of time, viewing his fewtunc, only Since the 1940s, a public trust in which value of dollar mined by it do w o h help. He w ppmted— other h" equalla—the peace psychical research, Civil rights titutions to b"ic freedoms, univ ersities, Vedantism and Zen Buddhism. and individual research of such persons as Nobel Laureate Vietnamese attributes man felt kind. So this portrait Of Mr. Cason be personal, really did not know him well. He cannot. for me, be by details or by his even though it from by the intimate he made on everyone. He both strung and Very not limited. To so make to a of is the of men of Buddha.

Machine generated alternative text: On the day before he died Mr. Carlson a imaædiately released it to fly over City. He told his wife, it to be The day he died. him in every meet. all 'Wticing at Zen Mountain Center, which he did much to create, he is there too.

 

Machine generated alternative text: ZEN CENTER RE-INCORPORATES Zen Center has dissolved its original corporation in which elected officers and trustees managed Zen Center for the owner members and employed the priests. and has reincorporated as a Corporation Sole. In this form the organization is founded by a single person—in the case Of Zen Center. the Chief Priest, Suzuki Roshi—who is usually solely responsible for the corpora- tion. In the Zen Center articles of incorporation, however, the founding Chief Priest is required upon incorporation to appoint a Board of Directors; thereafter the Board of Directors and the Chief Priest are mutually responsible for Zen Center and for appointing or changing officers and directors. If the Board and the Chief Priest do not agree on a particular issue. the Practicing Members must decide it by majority vote. The successor to the Chief Priest is chosen by the Chief Priest himself, but if he has not done so upon his retirement or death. the Board of Directors must make the choice. Suzuki Rashi has appointed the following Board of Directors: Richard Baker, Tim Buckley, Claude Dalenberg. Silas Hoadley, Bill Kwong, Jean Ross, Peter Schneider. There is no limit on the number of directors but there must be at least five. The Board meets at least every three months.

 

Machine generated alternative text: BON VOYAGE PARTY FOR THE BAKERS; THEY LEAVE FOR JAPAN In order to give the Of Zen Center Other friends Of the to them before rbey left fen Japan, surprise held Dick, Sally 't the East Wind Printers' k shop On the fi"t Sunday in Jeannie with the help of Yvonne Rand. Renée of Zen h wsing Others preparations. which empty w with flowers pap" Vtting up a stage the

 

Machine generated alternative text: great of good fare—cheese cakes, Cakes. with caviar or e or black beans. platters of nue d and cider, coffee and tea. They also for ent"tainment the the morning. The pmy late in of the to three hundred either or of Zen there Mite" and lawyers drop-im md Over twenty students fm Mountain came San pxty the next day. In a y all liltle The Bakeo really wo the of there. ne wished were time and quiet enough be with each old friend for a while, the big with The with Mel Weitman Calvin Wall performing duets. Ken SFnker John with on d guit", a his a recital of Chinese music on Then the new rwk trio. played long Lights by Fletcher (Dr. Albright) and a slide of Tassapr. shown the ts. a pick-up band of of the and the Tnsajara jammed on into the night. "lay, 30. Dick. and Sally Bake. after At 2;OO p.m.. Wedne of on the for Japan. preaing day a held on the by their friends and then the Bakeo wen t to their to finish

 

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Machine generated alternative text: PRIESTS: Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Zen Master; Dainin Katagiri Sensei. Instructor; Kobun Chino Sensei, Assistant Instructor; Richard Claude Dalenberg, Phillip Wilson ZEN CENTER BOARD OF DIRECEORS: Richard Baker, Tim Buckley, Claude Dalenberg, Silas Hoadley, Bill Kwong. Jean Ross, Peter Schneider. ZEN CENTER OFFICERS: Silas Hoadlcy, President; Claude Dalenberg, peter %hneider, Tim Buckley, Vice Presidents; Yvonne Rand, Secretary; John Steiner, Treasurer ZEN MOUNTAIN CENTER STAFF; Peter Schneider, Director; Silas Hoadley, Assocüte Director; Tim Buckley, Assistant Director: Kobun Chino Sensei, Zendo Director; Dan Welch. Assistant Zendo Director; Louise Welch, Jisha; Ed Brown, Head Cook; Sally Block, Head Seamstress; Paul Discoe, mork Foreman. WIND BELL STAFF: Peter Schneider, Senior Editor; Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Richard Baker and Silas Hoadley, Editorial Advisors; Tim Buckley and J J. Wilson, Editors; peter Bailey. Designer; Patricia Latvala, Composition; East Wind Printers, Printing; Taiji Kiyokawa, Art; Jonathan Altrnan, Mailing; Tim Buckley, Robert Boni, Clarke Mason, Ron Patterson, Rex Tasker, Kazuhiro Tsuruta and KQED, Photos.

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Spring 1969

 

Machine generated alternative text: The of the gaths(sh.mt ) appew a t the and Q/ the b at Center through the com bitwd efforts of Suzuki Reshi, Kob"n China SO'5ei, R whwd Peler Schneider. The is in soro o m opening text, before lectures (or second rke eathafm the of in Sütrd 'fret Four Vows recited both and privately. These gathas used Zen at Zen Mountain center, in Which in —

 

He's living in Japan now but still listed herein all three times as above - priest, board of directors, Wind Bell

 

 

Winter 1970

 

Machine generated alternative text: To find i" To find in what yet be given the how we feel Can y unmasked Such dead word, life, no line Only b Of What wc must find. Gertrude Horton Dixon died July 9, 1969 it age of 30 aft" with aa accrptance of by WillNd Dixon (Mike) and t" children. Armie. age four, and Will. age two. and by many others whose lives are different because She lived. It's to —y mote than just—Trudy she such good friend md complete part of the life community and development of Zen Center. She the very close of Zen Master Suzuki Roshi. She the wife of ex painter and the mother of beautiful girl and boy, She and Mike of the early Zen Cent" couples; their meditation together, prKtice, one of the of Zen Center. t the spirit, and go on in Zen Wht mo St essentially Toady very by and Nature, and is alive what in no Way in the wind, flowers. friends, things that were life for her and that she gave life You cannot has made its n rs deep spirit kn a Zen the last years ght us as much Zen as Anyone could in a lifetime. In ways life md continue het b:yond ingand not continuinb as it did in life. She took of things. aa did the things that she wanted to do and Were —y to do she died_ She saw many and impired them with a knowledge of Twe Being. Trudy o felt silence was enough and yet beautiful clear writing talking an intrinsic part of her life. The and the poem from did easily or automatically from They tlR of a constant and will to long gray abyss of the sleepless nights and "ffering of this disease and life into activity of Buddha beyond life and —By Baker

 

Following that are excerpts from letters Trudy wrote Richard Baker on pp. 6-8. That Winter 1970 issue of the Wind Bell is dedicated to Trudy and starts off with an account of her funeral and Shunryu Suzuki's eulogy.

 

 

Machine generated alternative text: RICHARD BAKER This fall Riciurd Baker ÉrMn Japan with his wife Virginia and daughter Sally for month visit the United States. Dick the founding of Zen Cent& and, next Roshi, the

Machine generated alternative text: Dick Sally Baker in Kyoto. man most Shaped Zen it aists today. He left year with inten ion o t f his tic e a nd his und«stam4ing of through studying and language at fwst His in Japan been. essentially, an attempt the of traditional Buddhism today, of role an d meditation the Japaneg and to draw m his experiences some idea of the directions in which might best go in Lmilating Buddhist practice-life, Of cultural heritage. The Bakers have been living in a house in where both Gim.y and Dick Studying and Sally attending While the practical aspects of knowing the there is Dick He feels that in to know a culture the initial must be done on la of as the language Of a their mind b"ic underlying Of only in of an on-going it offers of either past a hypothetical

Machine generated alternative text: During his Visit to America Dick led a sesshin at Esalen lnstitutc in Big Sur, followed by a two-day On the mmd. He gave at in San o on the (One Of the* lectures in the issue of Wind Bel J As a Soto Zen Dick a to obm Japanese life, and religimis. He visita many a.mples and Aeries, much of the feeling of traditional Buddhist P"CtiCe, He to his study through autumn then, the next two , to entN both Soto Zen mon "t e des utended periods of training. Already much come Center tFuough Dick's stay things like robes for American priests and definite wishing study Zen J apn, but something less and perhaps reaching the long run the of Zen Center the deaopment of W Buddhism.

 

 

Summer 1970

 

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pp17-20 - Richard Baker lecture at Esalen Institute, October 28, 1969 - PDF

 

 

Fall Winter 1970-71

 

Machine generated alternative text: In 1967 Zen Center was Strong enough to realize one Of Suzuki-roshi's dreams—that Of establishing a mountain monastery. That summer Zen Mountain Center opened at Hot Sprinp. From Sokoji Temple to Tassayara the students, both men and women, followed Suzuki-roshi, accepting three days Of tangaryo. before qualifying to Stay at the monastery. That first summer about 70 students trained there for periods ranging from a few days to three months. Ed by head student Dick (who received Dharma trans- from Suzuki-roshi December 8 last year). Some remained after the as st'üknts and directors; a few have stayed on for four yars.

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