January-February, 1982

Legends
Year of the Dog
The Great Sixth Patriarch's Teaching, Chapter III, by Sokei-an Sasaki
Animal Trainers -- Butchie, by John Storm
Predictions -- Recession, from the Wall Street Journal
Sesshin, with Joshu Sasaki Roshi, at the First Zen Institute, March 15-21
From the Record of Bankei, Translated by Haskel
Conversations with Farkas, Noted by Hackney
New Year Greeting, by Rev. Gyomay Kubose
Dr. L. Weiger, S.J., Says of the 94th radical

March-April, 1982

Obituary: Nicholas Farkas 1890-1982
From the Record of Bankei, Translated by Haskel
Getting it back, by John Storm
Letters: From L.P. Yandell, Reply Howard Pashenz
From The Great Natural Way, by Ven. Hozen Seki
Summer Seminar on the Sutras, 1982 Cornell University & Ithaca Zen Center, with Joshu Sasaki Roshi
Sesshin with Joshu Sasaki Roshi, Ithaca Zen Center, June 1-7 and June 27 - July 3

May, 1982

Joshu Sasaki Roshi Says, noted by Mary Farkas -- Zen Shugyo: one room one cup
Silence, by John Storm
New to Zen Notes?
Buddhism in England: May 1929, Zen Buddhism in New York
Inside the FZI -- A House and a Chair
Book noted by Haskel -- A Zen Forest, Sayings of the Masters
Book noted by Haskel -- From the Country of Eight Islands, An Anthology of Japanese Poetry
Conversations with Farkas, noted by Hackney -- Pretas and Hungry Ghosts

June-July, 1982

Message of the President, Anthony Tudor, to the Annual General Meeting of the First Zen Institute of America
Inside the FZI, XII The Power of Gold
More on Silence, by John Storm
Editor's Note: Credits Omitted
The Teaching of the Great Sixth Patriarch, Chapter III, by Sokei-an Sasaki
The Record of Bankei, Translated by Haskel
Conversations with Farkas, noted by Hackney -- Speak your mind
Sesshin with Joshu Sasaki Roshi, Tentative schedule, October 1-7

August, 1982

Joshu Sasaki Roshi Says, Noted by John Storm -- the Naval
The Record of Lin-Chi, Discourses IX, by Sokei-an Sasaki
Zen in Detective Fiction, All right! Noted by Farkas
Conversations with Farkas, Noted by Hackney -- Ruth after Sokei-an died

September, 1982

Sokei-an Says: In a Jail of Purity
The Record of Lin-Chi, Discourses IX Part 2, by Sokei-an Sasaki
How Does It Feel To Be A Buddhist, By Robert Schwarz, PhD
Skip This if you Know the next 3 Precepts for Layfolk
The Record of Bankei, Translated by Haskel
Conversations with Farkas, Noted by Hackney -- People want to fight with each other
Joshu Sasaki Roshi Says -- Ghosts
Noted by John Storm, A middle-aged man with a huge transistor radio

October, 1982

Editor's Note
The Record of Rinzai, Sokei-an Says
The Record of Bankei, Translated by Haskel
Book Noted, by John Storm, The Buddha Eye
Tanden, Source of Spiritual Strength, by Kongo Roshi
Joshu Sasaki Roshi Says -- Everyone is living in oneness with this Cosmos
Conversations with Farkas, Noted by Hackney -- I have always had strangers do things for me

November, 1982

Came to Tea: Jisho Niwa Roshi of Koonji, Japan
Anthony Tudor is busy rehersing Offenbach in the Underworld
The Record of Rinzai, Discourses, IX, by Sokei-an Sasaki
The Record of Bankei, Translated by Haskel
Joshu Sasaki Roshi Says -- The Future of American Zen
New Yorker Note: Belly Laughing

December, 1982

Book Noted: The American Buddhist Directory
Book Noted, by John Storm: Only Don't Know and Bone of Space, by Seung Sahn
The Record of Lin-Chi, by Sokei-an Sasaki
Dog, by Peter Lamp
Joshu Sasaki Roshi says, on Joshu's Mu, Extracted from a Taped Teisho
Cover: A Shingon Monk from Mt. Koya
The Record of Bankei, Translated by Haskel
Cynthia McAdams Rising Goddess
Conversations with Farkas, Noted by Hackney -- Get people to see that they are being objectionable

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