Instruction Talks

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Title	Speaker	Date
The Teaching Just for You Serial: SR-00147 Sesshin Lecture No. 1 Saturday, June 5, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, Precepts, Dragons, Bodhidharma, Truth, sitting, Buddha Nature, Politics,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 05 1971 City Center
Be Kind with Yourself Serial: 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, American...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 23 1971 Tassajara
Humor Is More Real Than Reallity Serial: SR-00274 Sesshin Lecture No. 5 Tuesday, February 9, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, Discrimination, Dragons, Observe, Emotions, Instruction, confusion	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 09 1971 City Center
Open Your Intuition Serial: SF-05587B Sesshin Meeting Friday, July 31, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Intuition, Instruction, Beginners	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 31 1970 City Center
Mudra Practice and How to Accept Instructions from Various Teachers Tatsugami, Yoshida, Beginners, Posture, Instruction, difficulty	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 26 1970 City Center
Our Everyday Life Is Like A Movie Anger, Instruction, Meditation, Posture, Observe, sitting	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 15 1970 City Center
Our Effort In Our Practice Instruction, lecture, Observe, difficulty, sitting	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 31 1970 City Center
Some Questions Question-and-Answer, Breath, Buddha Nature, Posture, sitting, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 28 1969 Tassajara
Our Way To Attain Liberation Serial: SF-05087B Monday Evening, August 18, 1969 Tassajara Story of the Sixth Patriarch. Practice with everyone else at the monastery, without self-centered ideas. Answering... Sixth Patriarch, Monastic Practice, Japan, Aspects of Practice, Discrimination, Faith...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 18 1969 Tassajara
Suzuki's 65th Birthday Serial: SR-00018 Sunday Morning, May 18, 1969 Sokoji, San Francisco Priest, Building, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Beginners, Instruction, Anger,...	Suzuki Roshi	May 18 1969 Sokoji
At The End Of The Year We Clean Up Our House Serial: SF-05970B Dec 1968 New Year Lecture Beginner’s Mind, Dogen, Japan, New Year, Beginners, Transmission, Instruction, Priest...	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 29 1968 Sokoji
The True Dragon Dogen, Baso, Dragons, Freedom, Soto Zen, Emptiness, Bodhidharma, Instruction, Zazen...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 12 1968 B Sokoji
Shikantaza, Tenryu's One Finger Serial: SR-00236 Sesshin Lecture Saturday, October 12, 1968 Sokoji, San Francisco Sesshin, Gutei, Yaoshan, Community, Pain, sitting, Monks, Obstacles, Instruction,...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 12 1968 A Sokoji
What is Soto and what is Rinzai? Serial: SF-05144A SR024 Tass July 26/68 Roshi Sectarianism copied; July 21 Chino Sensei; July 24 Chino Sensei - also many handwritten notes on the content NB: the date for the SR talk in... Soto Zen, Rinzai, Buddha Nature, Bodhidharma, Evil, Bowing, Mahayana, Gratitude, Ego...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 26 1968 Tassajara
Become More Direct and Honest Serial: SF-05276 Protection Master: re-recording from cassette marked "Suzuki Roshi talk with background music: no date, original copied" (Sony C60 side A); recorded: 7 1/2 ips, bias... Posture, Instruction, Religion	Suzuki Roshi	1968 Unknown
Nature of Our Practice Serial: SF-05141B Tuesday, December 5, 1967, Lecture B Evening Sesshin Lecture Tassajara Sesshin, Dogen, Fukanzazengi, Dragons, Daily Life, Observe, Freedom, training,...	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 05 1967 B Tassajara
Inner Power of Practice Serial: SF-05137A SR017 - Track 1 - slow - Roshi Lecture - 12/2/67 - afternoon - copied Sesshin, Blue Cliff Record, Concentration, Precepts, Monastic Practice, New Year,...	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 02 1967 Tassajara
Practice Zazen With Your Whole Mind And Body Serial: SF-05131B This is lecture D from these notes on the reel boxes (05132-B was added to this) Several minutes of tape operator's notes at the end are included, the transcript was... Instruction, Zazen, Posture, Beginners, Funeral, Religion, Instruction, Emotions,...	Suzuki Roshi	Sep 08 1967 Morning Tassajara
In the first instruction of ten instructions in Gakudō-yōjin-shū Sesshin, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Sixth Patriarch, Platform Sutra, training, Instruction,...	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 17 1966 A Sokoji
The Need for Training in Buddhism without Self-Seeking Mind Serial: SF-05121B Original recording Sesshin, Dogen, training, Buddha Nature, Hate, Observe, Instruction, Doubt	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 17 1966 B Sokoji
This Fascicle of Shobogenzo Serial: SF-05097F Sesshin Lecture 1966 Tape #2 Track 2: Suzuki 1pm lecture Friday Sesshin, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Blue Cliff Record, Attachment, Instruction, Freedom,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 19 1966 C Sokoji
Don't Be Attached To Your Attainment Serial: SF-05097H Sesshin Lecture 1966 Tape #2 Track 4 Friday lecture by Suzuki during morning zazen Friday Sesshin, Instruction, Attachment	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 19 1966 B Sokoji
Our Mind Should Be Calm Serial: SF-05093L Tuesday, August 16, 1966 Sesshin: Zazen short instruction Sokoji, San Francisco Sesshin, Instruction,	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 16 1966 Sokoji
You Cannot Appreciate Our Teaching In Its True Sense Serial: SF-05093B Monday, August 15, 1966 Sesshin: Lunch Lecture, Lecture B Sokoji, San Francisco Sesshin, Oryoki, Instruction,	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 15 1966 B Sokoji
Think Everything Out Serial: SF-05093C Monday, August 15, 1966, Lecture C Sokoji, San Francisco Sesshin, causation, Attachment, Hate, Intuition, Concentration, Evil, Instruction,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 15 1966 C Sokoji
Genjo Koan Serial: SF-05111C This is the bulk of the talk attributed to this date. It sounds distinct from the earlier fragment, and the date may not be accurate, though the subject is appropriate for the... Sesshin, Attachment, Instruction, Freedom, Doubt	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 15 1966 C Sokoji
Study Yourself Serial: SF-05123B ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #4, by Shundo David Haye ===== "I always felt his best Zen talks were the ones he gave on Thursday mornings in my home. They were... Dogen, Genjokoan, Rinzai, Monastic Practice, Instruction, Hate, Doubt	Suzuki Roshi	Sep 09 1965 Los Altos
Don't Be Bothered By Your Mind / Science of Philosophy is Like a Dissection Serial: SF-05104C Tape 5 Summer sesshin 1965 Thursday July 29th Side 2: 5:45 meditation, 9:00 AM lecture [Case replaced 12/95. Original notes were transcribed verbatim - WKR] Sesshin, Peace, Buddha Nature, Current Events, Bodhidharma, Passions, Instruction,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 30 1965 A-B Sokoji
The Purpose of Practice is to Have a Direct Experience of Buddha Serial: SF-05103B Tape 4 Summer Sesshin 1965: Thursday July 29 9am lecture - transcribed Sesshin, Buddha Nature, Evil, Precepts, Ego, Instruction	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 29 1965 A Sokoji
Pure Rules Serial: SF-05126A ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #6, by Shundo David Haye ===== The value of these sets of recordings during sesshins in the summer of 1965 at Sokoji is that not... Sesshin, Instruction, Emptiness, Interview, Religion, Faith	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 28 1965 9:00am Sokoji
Lunch Instruction Serial: SF-05126C ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #7, by Shundo David Haye ===== This is a second short instruction from the same day of sesshin as the Pure Rules talk (https://... Sesshin, Oryoki, Instruction,	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 28 1965 12:00 Sokoji
Wisdom Seeks For Wisdom Serial: SF-05128A ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #2, by Shundo David Haye ===== Among the tapes previously known to exist in the Zen Center archives, the earliest were from a sesshin... Precepts, Genjokoan, Instruction, Precepts, Buddha Nature, Freedom, Buddha Mind,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 22 1965 Los Altos