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Suzuki Roshi Talks
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Form Is Emptiness and Emptiness Is FormHeart Sutra, Emptiness, Big Mind, Forms, Don't Know Mind, Interdependence, Monks... |
Nov 13 1969 |
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Epilogue: Zen MindSerial: SR-00263 American practice different from Japanese practice. Enlightenment experience is beyond good and bad, beyond our usual way of thinking. Big mind is always with you, never... Big Mind, Enlightenment, Passions, Big Mind, Don't Know Mind, Consciousness,... |
Nov 16 1969 |
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Opening Lecture At Page Street Zendo: American PreceptsSerial: SR-00264 Moving into the new space. Don't worry about success, practice in the present. Hyakujo's regulations, positive and negative sides of guidelines and precepts. Precepts, Shingi, Precepts, Monks, Gratitude, Building |
Nov 22 1969 City Center |
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Pinch HitterSerial: SR-00268B Tuesday, November 25, 1969 Evening Lecture [Katagiri spoke before Suzuki. This portion has now been edited out] Wisdom, Truth, Zazen, Priest, American, Delusion, Meditation, Greed |
Nov 25 1969 B City Center |
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Way-Seeking Mind, Part ISerial: SR-00267 Winter Sesshin, Lecture No. 1 Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin, Faith |
Nov 29 1969 Tassajara |
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Way-Seeking Mind, Part IISerial: SR-00266 Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 2 Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin, Buddha Mind, Don't Know Mind, Big Mind, Intention,... |
Nov 30 1969 Tassajara |
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Way-Seeking Mind, Part IIISerial: SR-00194 Winter Sesshin, Day 3, Lecture No. 3 Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin, Big Mind, difficulty, Vow, Monks, Priest, American... |
Dec 01 1969 Tassajara |
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Practice Should Not Be Perfect, So Descendants Have Something To DoSerial: SR-00203 Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 4 Sesshin, Dogen, Building, difficulty, Monastic Practice, Transmission, Zazen, Breath... |
Dec 02 1969 Tassajara |
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Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 5Serial: SR-00202 Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 5 Sesshin, Bodhisattva, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Oneness, Ceremony, Precepts, Wisdom... |
Dec 03 1969 Tassajara |
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Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 6Sesshin, Ceremony, Freedom, Observe, Wisdom, Oneness, Beginners, Precepts |
Dec 04 1969 Tassajara |
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Shosan CeremonySerial: SF-05964 Friday, December 5, 1969 Previously described as intranscribable - now clearer File name: 69-12-05N: untitled level low. [Verbatim transcript not... Ceremony, Shosan, Sixth Patriarch, Big Mind, Letting Go, Separation, Attachment,... |
Dec 05 1969 Tassajara |
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Fundamental Buddhist Point: To Adjust Ourselves To Our SurroundingsSerial: SR-00192 Adjusting to life at City Center. Cleaning and zazen. Do we need furniture to practice? Dogen, Eiheiji, Zazen, Culture, Building |
Dec 21 1969 City Center |
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Respect for ThingsSerial: SR-00200 What Is Our Practice? Practice as taking care of everything. Not making a noise with the chairs. Practice with new... Bodhisattva Way, Big Mind, Building, Concentration, difficulty, Sutra, Bowing,... |
Jan 04 1970 City Center |
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Ordination Ceremony: Bill Kwong and Silas HoadleyCeremony, Priest, Ceremony, American |
Jan 11 1970 City Center |
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RulesDogen, Posture, Balance, Doubt, Faith |
Jan 18 1970 City Center |
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Caring for the SoilSerial: SR-00199 Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism Emptiness, Mahayana, Buddha Nature, difficulty, Greed, Gratitude, Hate |
Jan 25 1970 City Center |
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Our Effort In Our Practice Instruction, Observe, difficulty |
Jan 31 1970 City Center |
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Brown Rice is Just RightSerial: SR-00247 Morning Sesshin Lecture Sesshin, Emptiness, Discrimination, Buddha Nature, Hate, Suffering, Pain, difficulty... |
Feb 01 1970 City Center |
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Each One Of Us Is A CookSerial: SR-00258 Afternoon Sesshin Tea Lecture Sesshin, Emptiness, Forms, Compassion, Pain |
Feb 01 1970 B |
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“An Unsurpassed, Penetrating Buddha” Emptiness, Subject-and-Object, Interdependence, Observe, Community, Hate, Forms,... |
Feb 08 1970 |
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The Background of Shikantaza Pain, Observe, Consciousness, Posture |
Feb 22 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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Non-Dualistic PracticeSerial: SR-00260 Sesshin Lecture No. 3: Sesshin, Big Mind, difficulty, Duality, Karma, Anger, Mahayana, Emptiness, Suffering... |
Feb 25 1970 City Center |
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Practice To Be Like A StoneSerial: SF-06125 SR-70-02-28 Sesshin lecture #6 (last lecture) - followed by service #2 for Trudy Dixon Don't Know Mind, Composure, Diversity, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center |
Feb 28 1970 City Center |
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Lecture To Prof. Lewis R. Lancaster's Visiting ClassSerial: SR-00259 Practice and enlightnment as forgetting and letting go of everything. Even if we don't know what real practice is, continuing and allowing it to reveal itself. Answering... Buddha, Emptiness, Zazen, Don't Know Mind, Emptiness, Building, Suzuki Roshi,... |
Mar 01 1970 Tassajara |
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Letters From EmptinessSerial: SR-00156 How to Understand the Idea of Emptiness Emptiness, Doubt, Enemies |
Mar 08 1970 City Center |
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Our Everyday Life Is Like A Movie Anger, Instruction, Meditation, Posture, Observe |
Mar 15 1970 City Center |
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Way-Seeking MindSerial: SF-05361 Saturday Lecture Of March Sesshin Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin, Monastic Practice, Peace |
Mar 28 1970 City Center |
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The Zen of Going to the Rest RoomUmmon, Tangaryo, Culture, Monastic Practice, Suffering, American, Don't Know... |
Mar 29 1970 City Center |
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Buddha's Birthday LectureCeremony, Ceremony |
Apr 12 1970 City Center |
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How To Have Sincere PracticeSerial: SR-00145 Suzuki Roshi edited from longer recording. Building, Community, Meditation, Obstacles, Interview, Silence, Breath |
Apr 25 1970 A City Center |
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Remarks at the Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind TempleSerial: SF-05996 These are Suzuki Roshi's words, edited together out of longer recording of ceremony. Ceremony, Offering |
Apr 25 1970 City Center |
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Sincere PracticeSerial: SR-00140 How To Have Sincere Practice Tatsugami, Dogen, Precepts, Monks, Intuition, Don't Know Mind, Posture, Buddha... |
Apr 28 1970 City Center |
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Helping OthersSerial: SR-00138 Sesshin Lecture, No. 2, Saturday, May 2, 1970 Sesshin, Dogen, Zuimonki, Building, Doubt |
May 02 1970 City Center |
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On BreathingSerial: SR-00139 Sesshin Lecture, No. 1, Saturday Evening, May 2, 1970 Sesshin, Posture, Pain, Sangha, Enemies, Death |
May 02 1970 City Center |
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Sincere Practice and Way-Seeking MindSerial: SR-00043 Sesshin Lecture No. 3, Sunday, May 3, 1970 Sesshin, American, Transmission, Buddha Nature, Hate, Realization, Offering, Building... |
May 03 1970 City Center |
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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, American, Freedom |
May 05 1970 City Center |
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Zen Center and City PracticeSerial: SR-00045 Sunday, May 10, 1970 Building, Intention, Meditation, War, Observe, Death, difficulty |
May 10 1970 City Center |
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How To Observe PreceptsSerial: SR-00047 Sunday Morning, May 17, 1970 Precepts, Precepts, Chanting, Observe, Bodhidharma, Zazen, Mahayana, Posture,... |
May 17 1970 City Center |
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Money And LaborSerial: SR-00046 Sunday Morning, May 24, 1970 Buddha Nature, Discrimination, Monks, Priest, Faith |
May 24 1970 City Center |
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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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Warm Hand to Warm HandSerial: SR-00049 Sandokai Lecture II [The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture: Line 2 tozai mitsuni aifusu.... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Truth, Transmission, New Year, difficulty,... |
May 30 1970 Tassajara |
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Buddha Is Always HereSerial: SR-00051 Sandokai Lecture III [The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture: Line 5 Reigen myoni kokettari... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Emptiness, Buddha Nature, Suffering, Truth, Compassion,... |
Jun 01 1970 Tassajara |
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Shunryu Suzuki talking from Zen in America (video)Serial: SF-07428 [Audio from final cut used in film in italics] (Second paragraph only - SDH) Tassajara, Desire, Time |
Jun 1970 Tassajara |
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The Blue Jay Will Come Right into Your HeartSerial: SR-00053 Sandokai Lecture IV - Discussion of the lines: 'all the objects of the senses interact, and yet do not'. Subjective and objective, independent and interrelated aspects of... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Dependent Origination, Building, Truth |
Jun 03 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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Today We May Be Very HappySerial: SR-00057 Sandokai Lecture VI [This lecture is concerned with the following lines of the Sandokai: Shiki moto shitsuzo wo... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Happiness, Zazen, Suffering, Pain, Buddha Nature,... |
Jun 10 1970 Tassajara |
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The Boat Is Always MovingSerial: SR-00059 Sandokai Lecture VII [The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture: Line 17 Shidai no sho... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Emptiness, Emotions, Peace, Enemies, Karma, Anger, Hate... |
Jun 13 1970 Tassajara |
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Without Any Idea of AttainmentSerial: SR-00061 Sandokai Lecture VIII [The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture: Line 21 Manako wa iro,... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Precepts, Subject-and-Object, Oneness, Monks, Observe,... |
Jun 17 1970 Tassajara |
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Within Light There Is Utter DarknessSerial: SR-00052 Sandokai Lecture IX [The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture: Line 27 Meichu ni atatte an... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Suffering, Truth, Diversity, Duality, Transmission,... |
Jun 20 1970 Tassajara |
