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Awakening the Archive

The Awakening the Archive series is a year-long project that celebrates the release of the new Suzuki Roshi audio archive, and helps open the pathways for the sangha to engage with this great resource.

Every two weeks, a significant or newly-discovered Suzuki Roshi talk is featured here with an in-depth article giving context, history, and connections. Many of these featured talks will be drawn from the more than two-dozen newly discovered recordings, and several of these you might recognize as the basis for chapters of the books Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind and Not Always So.

These articles are written by Shundo David Haye, a staff audio engineer and core team member of Engage Wisdom for many years, who is also a Zen priest and teacher in Suzuki Roshi's lineage. Shundo has selected and sequenced the bi-weekly release of these specific talks to highlight the most interesting and significant moments in the collection of Suzuki Roshi's recorded voice.

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Title	Date
Restore the Buddhist Teaching in its Original Way Sunday Evening, August 16, 1970 San Francisco Lecture A [The first part of the lecture was not recorded.] Sesshin	Aug 16 1970 A City Center
To Be Honest And Sincere In Its True Sense It Is Necessary to Push Yourself Into Some Very Strong Hard Rule Sunday, August 16, 1970 San Francisco [This is the second of two lectures with this date. This lecture began mid-way on Side A of the original tape after a prior lecture ended. This lecture appears to be complete.] Newly processed version...	Aug 16 1970 B City Center
Lay Ordination Ceremony ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #25, by Shundo David Haye ===== This tape, which is unfortunately very poorly recorded, gives us a sense of the lay ordination ceremony that took place at City Center in August 1970. During the re-mastering of the... Precepts, Ceremony	Aug 23 1970 City Center
When Someone Receives Transmission Tuesday, August 25, 1970 San Francisco	Aug 25 1970 City Center
Japan Now: Zazen As Our Foundation Lecture after Trip to Japan: Sunday, December 13, 1970	Dec 13 1970
What Is Self? What Is Our Practice? Japan, Kosho Uchiyama	Dec 20 1970 City Center
Teisho (Introduced by Jakusho Kwong) Mill Valley Zendo, talk by Suzuki Roshi	Dec 23 1970 Mill Valley Zendo
No Practice Will Destroy People Dogen	Dec 27 1970 City Center
What Is Self?	Jan 03 1971 City Center
True Concentration Right Concentration Sunday, January 10, 1971 San Francisco Avalokiteshvara	Jan 10 1971 City Center
The Boss of Everything Zazen	Jan 16 1971 City Center
OLD - The Boss of Everything Jan 16 1971 one tape - original copied - missing	Jan 16 1971 City Center
Wherever I Go, I Meet Myself	Jan 23 1971 City Center
Resuming Big Mind Sesshin Lecture No. 1 Friday, February 5, 1971 San Francisco [”For this seven-day sesshin, there are only transcriptions for lectures given on Days 1, 3, 5, 7, and the closing words. I don't know if those were the only lectures given, or the... Sesshin	Feb 05 1971 City Center
Wherever You Go, You Will See Yourself Sesshin Lecture No. 3 Sunday Afternoon or Evening February 7, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, Tozan, Sandokai	Feb 07 1971 City Center
OLD - Wherever You Go, You Will See Yourself Feb 8th 1971 about gravestone - transcribed - copy ********* Sesshin Lecture No. 3 Sunday Afternoon or Evening February 7, 1971	Feb 07 1971 City Center
Humor Is More Real Than Reallity Sesshin Lecture No. 5 Tuesday, February 9, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin	Feb 09 1971 City Center
Just Enough Problems Sesshin Lecture, Lecture 7: Page Street Apples Friday Morning February 12, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin	Feb 12 1971 A City Center
OLD - Not Sticking to Enlightenment Sesshin Lecture, Day Seven: Closing Words Friday Evening February 12, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, Sixth Patriarch	Feb 12 1971 B City Center
OLD - Just Enough Problems SR-71-02-12-A (complete)	Feb 12 1971 A City Center
Not Sticking to Enlightenment ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #26, by Shundo David Haye ===== It's not completely clear how this talk dropped off the radar, as the tape had been copied and transcribed previously – indeed, it features in Not Always So (p131), the third... Sesshin, Sixth Patriarch	Feb 12 1971 B City Center
Calmness of your Mind Saturday Morning, February 13, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin	Feb 13 1971 City Center
1971.02.20-serial.00115 Initial speaker in Japanese - Tatsugami? Translated by Katagiri? Three speakers listed for this date.	Feb 20 1971 Tassajara
It Is Actually Buddha's Practice Sesshin	Feb 20 1971 Tassajara
Be Kind with Yourself Warm-hearted practice. Breathing and posture in zazen. We all have different circumstances, but in the monastery, we have one practice. Rules give freedom to practice. Dogen, Zazen, Tatsugami	Feb 23 1971 Tassajara
The Driver	Feb 27 1971 City Center
Why We Have So Many Problems Tuesday, March 2, 1971 8 am Tuesday Morning San Francisco	Mar 02 1971 City Center
Changing Our Karma Baso	Mar 09 1971 City Center
OLD - 1971.03.09-serial.00148 Second part of talk from this date, continues where 00116 finishes.	Mar 09 1971
Lecture: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Time	Mar 12 1971 Reed College Portland
The Teaching Just for You Sesshin Lecture No. 1 Saturday, June 5, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin	Jun 05 1971 City Center
Okesa Ceremony Ceremony of the okesa: chanting the fascicle Shobogenzo Kesa Kudoku; ten virtues of the okesa. What is practice of zazen and practice of the okesa. Truth is beyond priest or layperson. Acknowledging Yoshida Roshi. Priest, Ceremony, Okesa, Zazen	Jun 06 1971 City Center
Calmness of Mind Sesshin Lecture No. 2 Sunday, June 7, 1971 San Francisco Practice is to expose yourself as you are, express yourself fully. Accepting your teacher's words. Zen Center practice community offering mutual support for practice. Sesshin, Zazen, Breath, Community	Jun 07 1971 City Center
OLD - 1971.06.09-serial.00149	Jun 09 1971
Freedom from Everything Sesshin Lecture, Day 5 Wednesday, June 9, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin	Jun 09 1971 City Center
Precepts as Original Nature Precepts, Bodhidharma	Jun 12 1971 City Center
Sewing and Wearing the Buddhist Robes and How It Relates to Our Practice Saturday, June 19, 1971 San Francisco Zendo Dogen, Soto Zen	Jun 19 1971 City Center
Sewing Sesshin Sunday, June 20, 1971 Sesshin Lecture No. ____ San Francisco Sesshin, Okesa, Dogen	Jun 20 1971 City Center
OLD - 1971.06.20-serial.00152 Second part of talk from this date.	Jun 20 1971
OLD - Everyday Life 00013A was recorded over a tape of Suzuki Roshi speaking, which was labeled as 00013B	Jun 22 1971 City Center
Purely Involved Helping Others Nansen, things-as-it-is, Discrimination, Ummon, Bodhisattva Vow	Jun 22 1971 City Center
OLD - Purely Involved Helping Others Lecture June 1971 Part II - duplicate	Jun 22 1971 City Center
OLD - Purely Involved Helping Others Lecture June 1971 Part II - duplicate	Jun 22 1971 City Center
OLD - Purely Involved Helping Others Suzuki Roshi Lecture Part 1	Jun 22 1971 City Center
OLD - Purely Involved Helping Others Suzuki Roshi Lecture Part 1	Jun 22 1971 City Center
Real Precepts Are Beyond Words Precepts	Jul 02 1971 City Center
OLD - 1971.07.06-serial.00214 This is the end of the transcript of 00215	Jul 06 1971 end
Manifested Three Treasures Precepts	Jul 06 1971 City Center
OLD - Why Then Is It Necessary To Accept Precepts Saturday Morning, July 17, 1971 San Francisco Precepts	Jul 17 1971 end only City Center
Why Then Is It Necessary To Accept Precepts Precepts	Jul 17 1971 City Center

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