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Freedom Talks
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            Wherever You Are, We Have Zen Way Of PracticeDogen, Shobogenzo, Genjokoan,  Suffering, Pain, Don't Know Mind, Happiness,...            | 
                  
             Aug 21 1971 City Center           | 
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            Wind Stops, But Still Flower FallsSerial: SR-00163   This audio has been improved, so more of the students' questions may be discernible. Ummon,  Faith, Freedom, Dragons, Community, Emptiness, Wisdom, Building, Death...            | 
                  
             Aug 15 1971 Tassajara           | 
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            Speciality and Equality.First Principle, Freedom, Baizhang,  Death, Bell, Building            | 
                  
             Aug 13 1971 Tassajara           | 
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            Questions and AnswersQuestion-and-Answer, Yaoshan,  Truth, Community, Breath, Anger, Freedom, Faith...            | 
                  
             Aug 08 1971 Tassajara           | 
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            Blue Cliff Records 61 - Fuketsu's One Particle Of DustBlue Cliff Record,  Breath, Constancy, Freedom, Faith, Diversity, Greed, Religion,...            | 
                  
             Jul 26 1971 Tassajara           | 
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            Why Then Is It Necessary To Accept PreceptsPrecepts,  Precepts, Big Mind, Buddha Nature, Religion, Observe, Priest, Zazen,...            | 
                  
             Jul 17 1971 City Center           | 
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            Real Precepts Are Beyond WordsPrecepts,  Precepts, Observe, Freedom, Emptiness, Sangha, Duality, Karma            | 
                  
             Jul 02 1971 City Center           | 
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            Purely Involved Helping OthersNansen, things-as-it-is, Discrimination, Ummon,  Wisdom, Freedom, Discrimination,...            | 
                  
             Jun 22 1971 City Center           | 
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            Sewing SesshinSerial: SR-00122   Sunday, June 20, 1971 Sesshin, Okesa, Dogen,  Attachment, New Year, Freedom, Bodhidharma, Lay, Concentration...            | 
                  
             Jun 20 1971 City Center           | 
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            The DriverAnger, Karma, Zazen,  difficulty, Freedom, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Peace,...            | 
                  
             Feb 27 1971 City Center           | 
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            Be Kind with YourselfSerial: SR-00112   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,  Freedom, Instruction, Monks, Posture, Priest            | 
                  
             Feb 23 1971 Tassajara           | 
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            Wherever You Go, You Will See YourselfSerial: SR-00271   Sesshin Lecture No. 3 Sesshin, Tozan, Sandokai,  Discrimination, Precepts, Freedom, Death            | 
                  
             Feb 07 1971 City Center           | 
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            Wherever I Go, I Meet MyselfTozan,  Liberation, Culture, Freedom            | 
                  
             Jan 23 1971 City Center           | 
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            True ConcentrationSerial: SR-00078   Right Concentration Avalokitesvara, Tatsugami, Shushogi,  Freedom, Concentration, Commitment, Posture...            | 
                  
             Jan 10 1971 City Center           | 
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            Japanese Way, American Way, Buddhist WayDogen, Genjokoan, Japan,  Freedom, Culture, Doubt, Interview, Demons, Building, Pain...            | 
                  
             Jul 19 1970 City Center           | 
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            Suffering Is A Valuable ThingSerial: SR-00218   Sandokai Lecture XI [The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture: Line 33 Bammotsu onozukara... Branching Streams, Sandokai,  Suffering, difficulty, Community, Emptiness, Pain,...            | 
                  
             Jun 27 1970 Tassajara           | 
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            We Are Just a Tiny Speck of Big BeingSerial: SR-00055   Sandokai Lecture V: Lecture to Professor Weller's Visiting Class [Note. This lecture was given-- as a general introduction... Branching Streams, Sandokai,  Freedom, difficulty, Forms, Evil, Duality, Karma,...            | 
                  
             Jun 06 1970 Tassajara           | 
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            Things-As-It-IsSerial: SR-00048   Sandokai Lecture I [This is the first in a series of lectures on the Sandokai (Chin. Cantong qi or Tisan-tiung-chii), a... Branching Streams, Sandokai,  Big Mind, Discrimination, Freedom, Oneness, Bell,...            | 
                  
             May 27 1970 Tassajara           | 
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            We Try To Control Or Restrict Our ActivitySerial: SR-00044   Tuesday Evening, May 5, 1970  Culture, Posture, Evil, difficulty, Attachment, Pain, Freedom            | 
                  
             May 05 1970 City Center           | 
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            Selflessness, Being and Non-Being: The Background of ShikantazaSerial: SR-00261   Sesshin Lecture No. 1: Sesshin,  Buddha Nature, Emptiness, Evil, Mahayana, Posture, Freedom, Continuous...            | 
                  
             Feb 23 1970 City Center           | 
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            Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 6Sesshin,  Ceremony, Freedom, Observe, Wisdom, Oneness, Beginners, Precepts            | 
                  
             Dec 04 1969 Tassajara           | 
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            Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-6Serial: SF-06005   Third Lotus Sutra Series Lotus Sutra, Beginner’s Mind,  Politics, Interview, Concentration, Precepts, Freedom,...            | 
                  
             Oct 30 1969 Series 3, Talk 6 Tassajara           | 
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            Pure Silk, Sharp IronSerial: SR-00246   Sitting cross-legged - and then what? Having the right state of mind. Chinese and Japanese culture. His absent-mindedness, impatience. Virtue of endurance. Zazen, Dogen,  Culture, Ego, Transmission, Patience, Forms, Pain, War, Freedom...            | 
                  
             Sep 14 1969            | 
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            Stand Up By The GroundSerial: SF-05209   Protection Master "Suzuki Roshi summer sesshin 1969 2nd night lecture Sesshin, Second Night Lecture Sesshin, Dogen, Time,  Continuous Practice, Freedom, Doubt            | 
                  
             Sep  1969 Tassajara           | 
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            Not Always SoSerial: SR-00124   August Sesshin Lecture Sesshin, Dogen,  Interdependence, Freedom, Gratitude, Composure, Posture, Emptiness,...            | 
                  
             Aug 07 1969 Sokoji           | 
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            To Actually Practice SelflessnessSerial: SR-00125   August Sesshin Lecture Sesshin,  Pain, Fox, Precepts, Freedom, Funeral, Monks, Liberation, difficulty,...            | 
                  
             Aug 06 1969 Sokoji           | 
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            I have nothing in my mind Emptiness, Forms, Zazen, Buddha Nature, Freedom, Passions, Interview, Beginners,...            | 
                  
             Jul 15 1969 Sokoji           | 
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            It Is Rather Difficult For Us To Figure Out Why We Started To Practice ZazenSerial: SR-00023   Tuesday, July 1, 1969  Freedom, Priest, Offering, Religion, Culture, Ceremony, difficulty            | 
                  
             Jul 01 1969 Tassajara           | 
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            Rinzai Zen and Soto ZenSerial: SR-00033   July 1969 Morning. Dogen,  Buddha Nature, Evil, Freedom, Priest, Ego, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...            | 
                  
             Jul  1969 Sokoji           | 
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            Yakusan did not give lectures for a long timeSerial: SF-05961   June 1969 Story of Yakusan saying he was not a teacher to give lectures. Making effort, and paying attention. What is right effort?  Priest, Freedom            | 
                  
             Jun  1969 Tassajara           | 
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            How To Take Our Bodhisattva's VowSerial: SR-00017   Tuesday Morning, April 29, 1969 Dogen, Agama Sutra,  Precepts, Mahayana, Sutra, Observe, Freedom, Vow, Enemies, Hate,...            | 
                  
             Apr 29 1969 Sokoji           | 
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            The Only Desire That Is Complete Is Buddha's Desire Buddha Nature, Freedom, difficulty, Wisdom, War, Culture, Posture, Precepts, Priest...            | 
                  
             Apr 08 1969            | 
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            Ordinary Mind, Buddha Mind Composure, difficulty, Freedom            | 
                  
             Mar 30 1969            | 
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            Find Out for YourselfSerial: SR-00011   Find out what "buddha-nature" and "enlightenment" mean. Study without purpose. How his teacher in Japan treated him; trying to discover the right thing to do. Sesshin, Zazen, Eiheiji,  Suffering, Buddha Nature, Freedom, Beginners, Posture,...            | 
                  
             Mar 15 1969 Sokoji           | 
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            The True DragonDogen, Baso,  Dragons, Freedom, Soto Zen, Emptiness, Bodhidharma, Instruction, Zazen...            | 
                  
             Oct 12 1968 B Sokoji           | 
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            Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-10Serial: SR-00002   Fall 1968 Lotus Sutra,  Ceremony, Emptiness, Priest, Funeral, Composure, Monks, Freedom...            | 
                  
             Oct  1968 Series 2, Talk 10 Tassajara           | 
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            Bring Me The Rhinoceros FanSerial: SF-05086    ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #21, by Shundo David Haye =====  For whatever reason, there are few talks existing from the summer of 1968. At... Koan,  Faith, Freedom            | 
                  
             Jul 28 1968 Tassajara           | 
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            To Have Complete Understanding of Our SchoolSerial: SF-05144B   SR024 Tass July 26/68 Roshi Sectarianism copied; July 21 Chino Sensei; July 24 Chino Sensei - also many handwritten notes on the content. Since there was no talk by...  Anger, Politics, Liberation, Posture, Bell, Priest, confusion, Hate, Freedom, Doubt...            | 
                  
             Jul 27 1968 Tassajara           | 
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            Good and Bad FeelingSerial: SF-05141A   Tuesday, December 5, 1967 Sesshin,  Attachment, Discrimination, Separation, Liberation, Freedom, Doubt, Faith...            | 
                  
             Dec 05 1967 A Tassajara           | 
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            Nature of Our PracticeSerial: SF-05141B   Tuesday, December 5, 1967, Lecture B Sesshin, Dogen, Fukanzazengi,  Dragons, Daily Life, Observe, Freedom, Beginners,...            | 
                  
             Dec 05 1967 B Tassajara           | 
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            Inner Power of PracticeSerial: SF-05137A   SR017 - Track 1 - slow - Roshi Lecture - 12/2/67 - afternoon - copied Sesshin, Blue Cliff Record,  Concentration, Precepts, Monastic Practice, New Year,...            | 
                  
             Dec 02 1967 Tassajara           | 
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            KPFA Radio Interview with Elsa Knight ThompsonSerial: SF-05115   Monday, November 6, 1967 KPFA RADIO INTERVIEW WITH ELSA KNIGHT THOMPSON Interview,  Don't Know Mind, Nirvana, Monastic Practice, Evil, Samsara, Practice...            | 
                  
             Nov 06 1967 KPFA Berkeley           | 
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            IgnoranceSerial: SF-05131A   SR 014 - On this tape: lectures A and B and also first part of D. This is to be known as the A-B lecture tape or #1 ZMC (has been transcribed) Track 1 Roshi's lecture A 9/... Prajna Paramita,  Attachment, Freedom, Daily Life, Diversity, confusion, Hate...            | 
                  
             Sep 08 1967 Tassajara           | 
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            Zen Is Also BuddhismSerial: SF-05130C   SR013 date? Fall 1967 Tassajara III - Side 1 + 1/2 side 2 Suzuki lecture copied  Mahayana, New Year, Buddha Nature, Hate, Observe, Concentration, Balance, Freedom,...            | 
                  
             Sep  1967 Tassajara           | 
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            Genjo KoanSerial: SF-05134A   ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #14, by Shundo David Haye ===== The acquisition of Tassajara in 1967 was a huge leap for Zen Center. Suzuki Roshi had long been... Genjokoan, Dogen, Sesshin,  Emptiness, New Year, Interview, Freedom            | 
                  
             Aug 20 1967 Morning Tassajara           | 
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            You Must Give Up Worldly DesiresSerial: SF-05100B   Saturday, April 22, 1967 Sesshin,  Family Practice, Doubt, Dragons, Priest, Hate, Freedom            | 
                  
             Apr 22 1967 A Sokoji           | 
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            This Fascicle of ShobogenzoSerial: SF-05097F   Sesshin Lecture 1966 Tape #2 Track 2: Suzuki 1pm lecture Friday Sesshin, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Blue Cliff Record,  Attachment, Instruction, Freedom,...            | 
                  
             Aug 19 1966 C Sokoji           | 
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            ShobogenzoSerial: SF-05097D   Sesshin Lecture 1966 Tape #2 Sesshin, Sixth Patriarch, Dogen,  Subject-and-Object, Attachment, Buddha Nature,...            | 
                  
             Aug 18 1966 C Sokoji           | 
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            CausalitySerial: SF-05093J   Suzuki lecture 6pm Weds Track 2, continued on Track 3 Sesshin, Time,  Time, Buddha, Freedom            | 
                  
             Aug 17 1966 6:00pm Sokoji           | 
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            The first day of the sesshin is almost finishedSerial: SF-05093K   Monday, August 15, 1966 Sesshin,  Freedom, Causation, Composure, Posture            | 
                  
             Aug 15 1966 D Sokoji           |