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Enjoy Your Life

Serial: SR-00031

Talk on the moon landing

heart, Observe
Jul 20 1969

I have nothing in my mind

Emptiness, Forms, Zazen, Buddha Nature, Freedom, Passions, Interview, Beginners,...
Jul 15 1969
Sokoji

OLD - 1969.07.15-serial.00030

Serial: SR-00030

Second part of talk from this date.

Emptiness, Lotus Sutra, New Year, Don't Know Mind, Sutra, Forms, Bodhidharma,...
Jul 15 1969

Eulogy For Trudy Dixon Given During Her Funeral Ceremony

Serial: SR-00028

Words from the funeral eulogy for Trudy Dixon. Magnanimous mind

Tassajara, Dogen, Buddha Mind, Buddha Mind, Passions, Compassion
Jul 11 1969
Sokoji

FORM AND EMPTINESS II

Serial: SR-00027

Wednesday, July 9, 1969
Tassajara

Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Forms, reality, Enemies, Truth, training, American, Duality,...
Jul 09 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Form and Emptiness

Serial: SF-05108

51B

Freedom, training
Jul 09 1969
Tassajara

Question And Answer Session

Serial: SR-00025

Tuesday, July 8, 1969
San Francisco

Question-and-Answer, Don't Know Mind, Anger, Greed, Emotions, Zazen, Culture,...
Jul 08 1969
Sokoji

OLD - 1969.07.08-serial.00026

Serial: SR-00026

This is the last 7' of transcript for 69-07-08, 00025.

Hate
Jul 08 1969

1969.07.05.SF-05879

Jul 05 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Form and Emptiness II

Serial: SF-05228A

Protection master: made from cassette: "July 5th (1969) Roshi on form and emptiness (ZMC)" "From psychological point of view" and some discussion of Chinese medicine. Time: 60...

Emptiness, Oneness, Describe
Jul 05 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Form and Emptiness II

Serial: SF-05228B

Protection master: made from cassette: "July 5th (1969) Roshi on form and emptiness (ZMC)" "From psychological point of view" and some discussion of Chinese medicine. Time: 60...

Emptiness, Enemies, Duality, Attachment, Hate
Jul 05 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Form and Emptiness II

Serial: SF-05237B

Protection master: ends of lectures which ran over 60 minutes: 2 - Form and Emptiness 7/5/69 about 15minutes - duplicate

Freedom, training, Balance
Jul 05 1969
Tassajara

Practice Should Be The Practice Of “Right Now.”

Serial: SR-00024

Thursday, July 3, 1969
Tassajara

Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Forms, Faith, reality, Describe, training, Enemies, War,...
Jul 03 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Practice Should Be Practice of "Right Now"

Serial: SF-05237A

Protection master: ends of lectures which ran over 60 minutes. 1 - Form and Emptiness 7/3/69, about 5 minutes - duplicate

Hate
Jul 03 1969
Tassajara

It Is Rather Difficult For Us To Figure Out Why We Started To Practice Zazen

Serial: SR-00023

Tuesday, July 1, 1969
Tassajara

American, Freedom, Priest, zen, Offering, Religion, Culture, Ceremony, difficulty,...
Jul 01 1969
Tassajara

Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen

Serial: SR-00033

July 1969
San Francisco

Morning.

Dogen, Buddha Nature, Evil, Freedom, Priest, Ego, Tassajara, Transmission, Culture,...
Jul 1969
Sokoji

1969.06.29-serial.00021

Serial: SR-00021

Duplicate of talk from this date.

Emptiness, Forms, Balance, reality, Continuous, Wisdom, Death, sitting
Jun 29 1969

Emptiness is Form

Serial: SF-05968

Sunday, June 29, 1969
San Francisco

Newly uploaded version has speed adjustments made; should be a little clearer for transcript - not just end, but correcting...

Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Current Events, Balance, Faith, Beginners, Continuous...
Jun 29 1969
Tassajara

Direct Experience of Reality

Baso, Dogen, lecture, Sutra, Forms, Pain, sitting
Jun 22 1969
Sokoji

OLD - Direct Experience of Reality

Dogen, Sutra, Death, sitting
Jun 22 1969
Sokoji

How should we establish our system of practice in San Francisco

Serial: SR-00019

Tuesday Evening, June 17, 1969
San Francisco

Just sit, and follow the teacher's instruction. Story of four kinds of horse. Humans go to the moon, but don't...

Rinzai, Soto Zen, Dogen, Zazen, New Year, Concentration, Big Mind, Priest, Pain,...
Jun 17 1969
Sokoji

Yakusan did not give lectures for a long time

Serial: SF-05961

June 1969
Tassajara

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

1969.06.DD.SF-05342

Jun 1969
Tassajara

1969.06.DD.SF-05229

Jun 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Yakusan Did Not Give Lectures For A Long Time

Serial: SF-05961

Roshi - Tassajara 1969 - June - transcribed - working copy made

Faith, Liberation, Priest, Freedom
Jun 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Suzuki's 65th Birthday

Building, Priest, Beginners, Instruction
May 18 1969
Sokoji

How To Take Our Bodhisattva's Vow

Serial: SR-00017

Tuesday Morning, April 29, 1969
San Francisco

Bodhisattva Vow, Dogen, Agama Sutra, Precepts, Mahayana, Sutra, Observe, Freedom,...
Apr 29 1969
Sokoji

Jumping Off the 100-Foot Pole

Serial: SR-00016

Sunday Lecture
Sunday, April 20, 1969

Buddha Nature, Evil, Priest, Big Mind, Compassion, Continuous, reality
Apr 20 1969

Zen Is Not Something To Talk About, And Also It Is Something To Talk About

Serial: SR-00015

Shunryu Suzuki (with Ryogen Yoshimura)
Afternoon Sesshin Lecture
Sunday, April 19, 1969

Audio includes Yoshimura at beginning.

Sesshin, Suffering, lecture, Monks, Don't Know Mind, Priest, Community, Posture...
Apr 19 1969

The Only Desire That Is Complete Is Buddha's Desire

Buddha Nature, Freedom, difficulty, Wisdom, War, Culture, Posture, lecture, Precepts...
Apr 08 1969

Ordinary Mind, Buddha Mind

Composure, reality, difficulty, Freedom
Mar 30 1969

Our Practice Should Be Based On The Idea Of Selflessness

Serial: SR-00012

Sunday Morning, March 16, 1969

Monastic Practice, Truth
Mar 16 1969

Find Out for Yourself

Serial: 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, zen,...
Mar 15 1969
Sokoji

Nansen's “Everyday Mind Is Dao”

Truth, Birth-and-Death, Wisdom, zen, Pain, Death, difficulty, Composure, Describe,...
Mar 10 1969

Sun-Faced Buddha, Moon-Faced Buddha

Serial: SR-00009

Sunday, March 9, 1969
Sokoji, San Francisco

Koan story of sun-faced buddha, moon-faced buddha. Practicing while well or while sick. Accepting what we don't like....

Baso, Koan, Blue Cliff Record, Attachment, Composure, Discrimination, difficulty,...
Mar 09 1969
Sokoji

1969.02.28.SF-05360

Feb 28 1969
City Center

1969.02.28.SF-05249

Feb 28 1969
City Center

Han (sounding board)

Serial: 69-00-00

[Image of (see PDF)] Suzuki·roshi at Tassajara in 1969 passing the wooden sounding board and hammer that is used to announce zazen, lectures and the arrival or departure of the...

1969
Tassajara

OLD - At The End Of The Year We Clean Up Our House

Serial: 68-12-29

Sunday, December 29, 1968
[Date uncertain; may be the conclusion of SR-68-12-21 (WKR, 8/28/00).]

Dec 29 1968

At The End Of The Year We Clean Up Our House

Serial: SF-05970-B

Dec 1968 New Year Lecture

Beginner’s Mind, Dogen, Japan, New Year, Beginners, Transmission, Instruction, Priest...
Dec 29 1968
Sokoji

untitled

Serial: SR-00007

Newly reprocessed recording should be a little clearer

Lotus Sutra, Monks, Breath, Building
Dec 24 1968
Sokoji

True Happiness and Renewal of Practice at Year's End

Serial: SF-05970-A

Newly uploaded recording of this talk.

Happiness, Buddha Nature, Happiness, Buddha Nature, Composure, Observe
Dec 21 1968
Sokoji

OLD True Happiness and Renewal of Practice at Year's End

Serial: 68-12-21

This has been hidden as we had a misdated reel that corresponds to this transcript, and is longer - SDH

Happiness, Suffering, Composure, Observe, Chanting
Dec 21 1968
Sokoji

Shosan Ceremony

Shosan, First Principle, Emptiness, Compassion, Lotus Sutra, Patience, sitting,...
Nov 11 1968
Tassajara

OLD - Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-7

Serial: 68-10-00-F

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Suffering, Truth, Emptiness, Precepts, Wisdom, Pain, Mahayana, Ceremony...
Oct 30 1968
Series 2, Talk 7
Tassajara

OLD - Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-6

Serial: 68-10-00-E

Hidden as we had a misdated reel that corresponded to this transcript - SDH

October 1968
[?Transcript in progress. Needs further work, checking. Words in doubt...

Precepts, Wisdom, War, Zazen, Ceremony, Sutra, sitting
Oct 30 1968
Series 2, Talk 6
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-2

Serial: SR-00233

Monday Morning, October 21, 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Observe, Lotus Sutra, Sutra, Doubt, Precepts, Separation, Offering,...
Oct 21 1968
Series 2, Talk 2
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-1

Serial: SF-05681

[Second Lotus Sutra series in 1968]
Sunday Evening, October 20, 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Describe, Vows, Enemies, Conversation, Karma, Emotions
Oct 20 1968
Tassajara

OLD - Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-1

Serial: 68-10-20

[Second Lotus Sutra series in 1968]
Sunday Evening, October 20, 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Describe, Sutra, Emotions, Death, Vows, Karma, Religion, Enemies, Priest...
Oct 20 1968
Series 2, Talk 1
Tassajara

OLD - Fragment of Q & A

Dogen,
Oct 14 1968
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