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Funeral Service for Suzuki Roshi Serial: SR-00171 This is a full recording of Suzuki Roshi's funeral, held nine days after his death. Ceremony, Funeral, Ceremony, Discrimination, Soto Zen, Suzuki Roshi, Vow	Various	Dec 12 1971 City Center
Talking To His Disciples About His Illness Serial: SR-00186 Sunday, October 9, 1971 In His Room, City Center, San Francisco Cancer, Teacher-and-Student, Monks	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 09 1971 City Center
Wherever You Are, We Have Zen Way Of Practice Dogen, Shobogenzo, Genjokoan, Suffering, Pain, Don't Know Mind, Happiness,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 21 1971 City Center
Translation of Unknown Text Serial: SR-00183 August 1971 San Francisco Ceremony, Priest, Attachment, Forms, Hate, Passions	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 1971 City Center
Why Then Is It Necessary To Accept Precepts Precepts, Buddha Nature, Precepts, Freedom, Priest, Religion, Big Mind, Zazen,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 17 1971 City Center
Manifested Three Treasures Precepts, Anger, Emptiness, Enemies, Hate, Observe, Precepts, Priest, Sangha...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 06 1971 City Center
Real Precepts Are Beyond Words Precepts, Duality, Emptiness, Freedom, Karma, Observe, Precepts, Sangha	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 02 1971 City Center
Purely Involved Helping Others Serial: SF-00013B 00013A was recorded over a tape of Suzuki Roshi speaking, which was labeled as 00013B. This is an incomplete copy of the talk, which is also available in other copies... Practice, Work, Time	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 22 1971 City Center
Purely Involved Helping Others Nansen, things-as-it-is, Discrimination, Ummon, Discrimination, Emotions, Freedom,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 22 1971 City Center
Sewing Sesshin Serial: SR-00122 Sunday, June 20, 1971 Sesshin Lecture No. ____ San Francisco Sesshin, Okesa, Dogen, Attachment, New Year, Freedom, Bodhidharma, Lay, Concentration...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 20 1971 City Center
Sewing and Wearing the Buddhist Robes and How It Relates to Our Practice Serial: 71-06-19 Saturday, June 19, 1971 San Francisco Zendo Dogen, Soto Zen,	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 19 1971 City Center
Precepts as Original Nature Precepts, Bodhidharma, Precepts, Concentration, Building, Posture, New Year,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 12 1971 City Center
Freedom from Everything Serial: SR-00150 Sesshin Lecture, Day 5 Wednesday, June 9, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, Attachment, Demons, Happiness, New Year, Perfect Wisdom, Precepts, Truth,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 09 1971 City Center
Calmness of Mind Serial: SR-00151 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.... Sesshin, Zazen, Breath, Community, Community, Death, difficulty, Emptiness, Hate,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 07 1971 City Center
Okesa Ceremony Serial: SR-00146 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... Priest, Ceremony, Okesa, Zazen, Demons, Dragons, Gratitude, Greed, Happiness, Priest...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 06 1971 City Center
The Teaching Just for You Serial: SR-00147 Sesshin Lecture No. 1 Saturday, June 5, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, Bodhidharma, Buddha Nature, Dragons, Instruction, Politics, Precepts,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 05 1971 City Center
Changing Our Karma Baso, Concentration, Karma, Suffering, difficulty, Ceremony	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 09 1971 City Center
Why We Have So Many Problems Serial: SR-00153 Tuesday, March 2, 1971 8 am Tuesday Morning San Francisco Concentration, Ego, difficulty, Ceremony, Addiction, confusion, Building	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 02 1971 City Center
The Driver Anger, Karma, Zazen, difficulty, Freedom, Tassajara, Peace, confusion, Posture, Pain...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 27 1971 City Center
Calmness of your Mind Serial: SR-00079 Saturday Morning, February 13, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, Attachment, Beginners, Community, confusion, New Year, Oneness, Pain,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 13 1971 City Center
Just Enough Problems Serial: SR-00273 Sesshin Lecture, Lecture 7: Page Street Apples Friday Morning February 12, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, War, Enemies, Hate	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 12 1971 A City Center
Not Sticking to Enlightenment Serial: SF-05445B ===== 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... Sesshin, Sixth Patriarch, Emptiness	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 12 1971 B City Center
Humor Is More Real Than Reallity Serial: SR-00274 Sesshin Lecture No. 5 Tuesday, February 9, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, Eiheiji, Dogen, Discrimination, Dragons, Observe, Emotions, Instruction,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 09 1971 City Center
Wherever You Go, You Will See Yourself Serial: SR-00271 Sesshin Lecture No. 3 Sunday Afternoon or Evening February 7, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, Tozan, Sandokai, Death, Discrimination, Freedom, Precepts	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 07 1971 City Center
Resuming Big Mind Serial: SR-00272 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... Sesshin, Big Mind, Zuimonki, Hate, Zoom, Zazen, Anger, Ceremony, Pain	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 05 1971 City Center
Wherever I Go, I Meet Myself Tozan, Liberation, Culture, Freedom	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 23 1971 City Center
The Boss of Everything Zazen, Big Mind, Precepts, confusion, Bodhidharma, Zazen, Suffering, Observe...	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 16 1971 City Center
True Concentration Serial: SR-00078 Right Concentration Sunday, January 10, 1971 San Francisco Avalokitesvara, Tatsugami, Shushogi, Freedom, Concentration, Commitment, Posture...	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 10 1971 City Center
What Is Self? Eiheiji, Kosho Uchiyama, Ceremony, Observe	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 03 1971 City Center
No Practice Will Destroy People Dogen, Dogen	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 27 1970 City Center
What Is Self? What Is Our Practice? Japan, Kosho Uchiyama, Building, Precepts, Greed, Ego	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 20 1970 City Center
When Someone Receives Transmission Serial: SR-00071 Tuesday, August 25, 1970 San Francisco Dharma Transmission, Richard Baker, Japan, Ceremony, Buddha Nature, Culture, Death,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 25 1970 City Center
Lay Ordination Ceremony Serial: SR-00069B ===== 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... Precepts, Ceremony, Commitment	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 23 1970 City Center
Restore the Buddhist Teaching in its Original Way Serial: SF-06121A Sunday Evening, August 16, 1970 San Francisco Lecture A [The first part of the lecture was not recorded.] Sesshin, Faith	Suzuki Roshi	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 Serial: SF-06121B 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... Practice, Enlightenment, Oryoki	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 16 1970 B City Center
Priest Ordination Ceremony: Paul Discoe and Reb Anderson Serial: SR-00069A Reprocessed version may allow for clarification of transcript (some changes made by SDH, July 2025) Priest, Ceremony, Precepts, Don't Know Mind, Delusion, Greed, Interview,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 09 1970 City Center
Our Practice is Expression of Our True Buddha-mind Serial: SR-00067 Sesshin Lecture, No. 4 Tuesday Evening, August 4, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Precepts, Beginner’s Mind, Buddha Mind, Discrimination, Duality, Mahayana,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 04 1970 City Center
Zazen Practice and Listen to the Right Teacher Serial: SF-05631 ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #24, by Shundo David Haye ===== In the last years of Suzuki Roshi's life, very few talks were lost from the collections... Sesshin, Dogen, Bodhidharma, Precepts, Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Observe, Anger...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 03 1970 City Center
Walk like an Elephant and Sitting like a Frog Serial: SR-00066 True Practice As Expression Of Buddha-Nature Sesshin Lecture No. 2 Sunday, August 2, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Sengai, Buddha Nature, Family Practice, War, Bodhidharma, Zazen, Monks...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 02 1970 City Center
Observation of Precepts and Practice of Zazen is Same Thing Serial: SF-06049 Sesshin Lecture No. 1 Saturday, August 1, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Precepts, Precepts, Doubt, Buddha Nature, Faith, Ceremony, Ordination, Lay,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 01 1970 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, Keizan, Dogen, Posture, Instruction, difficulty...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 26 1970 City Center
How To Understand Rituals And Precepts Serial: SR-00063 Zazen, Rituals And Precepts Cannot Be Separated Sunday Evening, July 26, 1970 San Francisco Precepts, Ritual, Teacher-and-Student, Ceremony, Evil, Gratitude, Intention, Precepts...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 26 1970 City Center
Japanese Way, American Way, Buddhist Way Dogen, Genjokoan, Japan, Building, Culture, Demons, Doubt, Freedom, Interview, Pain...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 19 1970 City Center
Money And Labor Serial: SR-00046 Sunday Morning, May 24, 1970 City Center, San Francisco Buddha Nature, Discrimination, Monks, Priest, Faith	Suzuki Roshi	May 24 1970 City Center
How To Observe Precepts Serial: SR-00047 Sunday Morning, May 17, 1970 San Francisco Precepts, Bodhidharma, Building, Chanting, Mahayana, Observe, Posture, Precepts,...	Suzuki Roshi	May 17 1970 City Center
Zen Center and City Practice Serial: SR-00045 Sunday, May 10, 1970 City Center, San Francisco Building, Intention, Meditation, War, Observe, Death, difficulty	Suzuki Roshi	May 10 1970 City Center
We Try To Control Or Restrict Our Activity Serial: SR-00044 Tuesday Evening, May 5, 1970 City Center, San Francisco Attachment, Culture, difficulty, Evil, Freedom, Pain, Posture	Suzuki Roshi	May 05 1970 City Center
Sincere Practice and Way-Seeking Mind Serial: SR-00043 Sesshin Lecture No. 3, Sunday, May 3, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Buddha Nature, Building, Hate, Offering, Realization, Transmission	Suzuki Roshi	May 03 1970 City Center
Helping Others Serial: SR-00138 Sesshin Lecture, No. 2, Saturday, May 2, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Dogen, Zuimonki, Building, Doubt	Suzuki Roshi	May 02 1970 City Center

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