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Twelve Links of Causation

Serial: SR-00135

Twelve Links Of Causation
Juni-innen (Jap.)
Dvada-aiga-pratatyasamutpada (San.)

English Japanese Sanskrit...

Consciousness, Suffering, causation, Discrimination, Emptiness, Fasting, Passions,...
Aug 23 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Twelve Links of Causation

Serial: SF-05089A

Continuation of previous lecture on 12 links of causation - Aug 23 - both sides - 3 3/4 - on cassette - Dan Gourley #5

causation, Discrimination, Faith, Enemies, Attachment, Describe
Aug 23 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Twelve Links of Causation

Serial: SF-05089B

Continuation of previous lecture on 12 links of causation - Aug 23 - both sides - 3 3/4 - on cassette - Dan Gourley #5

causation, Enemies, Passions, Discrimination, Evil, Faith
Aug 23 1969
Tassajara

Question and Answer

Question-and-Answer, Buddha Nature, Suffering, Separation, Pain, American, Anger,...
Aug 25 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Question and Answer

Serial: SR-00134

This is another version of 00083, which had been incorrectly dated. This is an incomplete version although the audio has been improved.
Set aside as duplicate.

Question-and-Answer, Buddha Nature, Attachment, Suffering, American, Separation,...
Aug 25 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Questions And Answers

Serial: SR-00082

Set aside as duplicate.

Question-and-Answer, Breath, Concentration, Family Practice, Emptiness, Pain, sitting...
Aug 28 1969
Tassajara

Some Questions

Question-and-Answer, Breath, Buddha Nature, Posture, sitting, Tassajara, Offering,...
Aug 28 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Questions and Answers

Serial: SF-05110

68B

Aug 28 1969
Tassajara

OLD 1969.08.30-serial.00084

Serial: SR-00084

Another version of the talk from this date, but this one is longer. Sound quality is different - less bright, but less affected by speed issues towards end
Set aside as...

Concentration, Pain, Right Effort, Gratitude, Balance, Breath, Interview, Offering,...
Aug 30 1969
Tassajara

Our Practice And Our Everyday Activity

Serial: SF-05396

Saturday, August 30, 1969

Newly uploaded recording should be clearer to transcribe

Concentration, Composure, Gratitude, Fundraising, Posture, Describe, training, Faith...
Aug 30 1969
Tassajara

Sesshin, Sixth Night Lecture

Serial: SR-00129

Tassajara
September, 1969

Sesshin, Don't Know Mind, Posture, Ceremony, Addiction, Duality, Beginners,...
Sep 1969
Tassajara

Sesshin, Third Night Lecture

Serial: SR-00130

Tassajara
September, 1969

Sesshin, Emptiness, reality, Passions, Intuition, Bell, Forms, American, difficulty...
Sep 1969
Tassajara

Shosan Ceremony

Serial: SR-00213

Tassajara
September, 1969

[Beginning of ceremony not recorded.]

Sesshin, Shosan, Perfect Wisdom, Dragons, Breath, Death, Intuition, Lay, Bell,...
Sep 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Wherever You Are, Enlightenment Is There

Serial: SF-06103

Summer Sesshin 1969 Suzuki Roshi 1st night lecture ZMC transcribed - duplicate

Five Ranks, Buddha Nature, Composure, Oneness, Evil, Hate, Doubt
Sep 1969
Tassajara

Stand Up By The Ground

Serial: SF-05209

Protection Master "Suzuki Roshi summer sesshin 1969 2nd night lecture

Sesshin, Second Night Lecture
September, 1969
Tassajara

Sesshin, Dogen, Time, Continuous, Freedom, Doubt
Sep 1969
Tassajara

Wherever You Are, Enlightenment Is There

Serial: SF-05184A

Sesshin: First Night Lecture, “I Don't Know Zazen”
September 1969
Tassajara

Knowing that we have buddha nature even while we are in the...

Dogen, Buddha Nature, Enlightenment, Five Ranks, Buddha Nature, Composure, Emotions,...
Sep 1969
Tassajara

Pure Silk, Sharp Iron

Serial: 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, training, Patience, Forms, Pain, War,...
Sep 14 1969

OLD - 1969.09.16-serial.00036

Serial: SR-00036

This is a part of "Why I came to America" talk from same date.

Obstacles
Sep 16 1969

Why I Came to America

Serial: SR-00157

"Why I became a priest"

Memories of his father as a temple priest. Wanting to be an unusual priest himself, to teach people. Training at a temple with Oka...

Priest, Meiji, Japan, Dogen, Priest, training, New Year, Ceremony, Obstacles, Enemies...
Sep 16 1969
Sokoji

On Zen Center History, Personal History, and Nona Ransom

Serial: SF-05610

Interview of Suzuki Roshi by Peter Schneider

Interview, Transmission, Priest, Hate, Suzuki Roshi, training, Enemies, Passions,...
Sep 16 1969
1 of 2

Interview of Suzuki by Peter Schneider

Serial: 69-09-16-IB

Entered onto disk by DC 1996 or so
Revised by Bill Redican 9/01

[I dated this 69-09-16 to go with other Peter Schneider interview and lecture of that date....

Interview, First Principle,
Sep 16 1969

Suzuki’s Curriculum Vitae

Serial: 69-09-16-W

Tuesday, September 16, 1969

[I dated this 69-09-16 because it was made by Shunryu Suzuki with Kobun Chino’s assistance in order to help Suzuki with his interview with...

Sep 16 1969
W

On Zen Center History, Personal History, and Nona Ransom

Serial: SF-05577

Interview of Suzuki Roshi by Peter Schneider

Interview, Priest, Greed, Separation, Balance, Describe, confusion
Sep 16 1969
2 of 2

OLD - Fragment of Q & A

Serial: SR-00210

File name: 69-10-14-X: fragment of Q & A (titled by pf) A fragment of about 2 minutes found after chanting on tape for 69-10-14.

This is contiguous with the talk on...

Dogen, Transmission, Suffering, Monks, sitting, Silence, Priest, zen, War
Oct 14 1969
X

New Students' Questions

Serial: SR-00211

Tuesday, October 14, 1969
San Francisco

Question-and-Answer, Bodhisattva Vow, War, Buddha Nature, Addiction, Diversity, Vows...
Oct 14 1969

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-1

Serial: SR-00212

[Third Lotus Sutra Series]1
Monday Evening, October 20, 1969
Zen Mountain Center

Introduction to third series of talks on the Lotus Sutra. Zen as practical...

Lotus Sutra, Mahayana, Dogen, Mahayana, Lotus Sutra, Precepts, Ego, Sutra, Priest,...
Oct 20 1969
Series 3, Talk 1
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-2

Serial: SR-00037

Third Lotus Sutra Series
Thursday Evening, October 23, 1969
Zen Mountain Center

[The recording starts with Suzuki reading from: Saddharma Pundarika or The...

Lotus Sutra, First Principle, First Principle, Don't Know Mind, Consciousness,...
Oct 23 1969
Series 3, Talk 2
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-4

Serial: SR-00038

[Third Lotus Sutra Series]
Saturday Evening, October 25, 1969
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Wisdom, Buddha Nature, Sutra, Priest, Mahayana,...
Oct 25 1969
Series 3, Talk 4
Tassajara

OLD - Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-3?

Serial: SR-00039

This was second part of 0038 - set aside

Priest
Oct 25 1969
Series 3, Talk 3
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-5

Serial: SF-06006

Third Lotus Sutra Series
Tuesday Evening, October 28, 1969
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Mahayana, Skandas, Balance
Oct 28 1969
Series 3, Talk 5
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-6

Serial: SF-06005

Third Lotus Sutra Series
Thursday Evening, October 30, 1969
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Beginner’s Mind, Politics, Interview, Concentration, Precepts, Freedom,...
Oct 30 1969
Series 3, Talk 6
Tassajara

OLD - 1969.11.07-serial.00041

Serial: SR-00041

This is the second part of the talk from this date.

Don't Know Mind, Describe, Emptiness, reality, Freedom, difficulty, Truth...
Nov 07 1969

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-7

Serial: SR-00042

Third Lotus Sutra Series
Friday Evening, November 7, 1969
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Emptiness, Passions, Lotus Sutra, Concentration, Evil, Sutra, Mahayana,...
Nov 07 1969
Series 3, Talk 7
Tassajara

Miss Ransom Was A Teacher Of Conversation

Serial: SR-00242

[Not an interview I think, but a question Peter asks at the beginning of the lecture, possibly pre-arranged with Suzuki. Got labeled as an interview because I had it grouped...

Japan, Komazawa University, Buddhism, Shobogenzo, Obon, Conversation, Building,...
Nov 09 1969

OLD - 1969.11.09-serial.00245

Serial: SR-00245

This is the second part of the talk from this date.

Interview, Doubt, American, Faith
Nov 09 1969

Some Questions

Lotus Sutra, Time, Ego, Wisdom, Passions, Mindfulness, Buddha Nature, Culture,...
Nov 11 1969

OLD - Some Questions

Serial: SR-00265

This is the second part of this transcript.

Tuesday, November 11, 1969
San Francisco

Question-and-Answer, American, Echo, Tassajara, Balance, Posture, heart, Priest,...
Nov 11 1969

Form Is Emptiness and Emptiness Is Form

Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Big Mind, Forms, Don't Know Mind, Interdependence, heart...
Nov 13 1969

OLD - Form is Emptiness, and Emptiness is Form

Serial: SR-00262

This is just the last part of the transcript from this date. Edited together with 00243.

Heart Sutra, difficulty, Breath, Enemies, Truth
Nov 13 1969

Epilogue: Zen Mind

Serial: 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

Opening Lecture At Page Street Zendo: American Precepts

Serial: 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, zen, Building
Nov 22 1969
City Center

Pinch Hitter

Serial: SR-00268

Tuesday, November 25, 1969

Evening Lecture
City Center, San Francisco

[Katagiri spoke before Suzuki. SR portion starts at 42:52.

Wisdom, zen, Truth, Zazen, Priest, American, Delusion, Meditation, Greed, heart...
Nov 25 1969
City Center

Way-Seeking Mind, Part I

Serial: SR-00267

Winter Sesshin, Lecture No. 1
Saturday, November 29, 1969
Tassajara

Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin, reality, Faith
Nov 29 1969
Tassajara

Way-Seeking Mind, Part II

Serial: SR-00266

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 2
Sunday, November 30, 1969
Tassajara

Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin, Buddha Mind, Don't Know Mind, Big Mind, Intention,...
Nov 30 1969
Tassajara

Way-Seeking Mind, Part III

Serial: SR-00194

Winter Sesshin, Day 3, Lecture No. 3
Monday, December 1, 1969
Tassajara

Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin, Bodhisattva Vow, Big Mind, difficulty, Vows, heart, Monks...
Dec 01 1969
Tassajara

Practice Should Not Be Perfect, So Descendants Have Something To Do

Serial: SR-00203

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 4
Tuesday, December 2, 1969

Sesshin, Dogen, Building, difficulty, Monastic Practice, Transmission, Zazen, Breath...
Dec 02 1969
Tassajara

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 5

Serial: SR-00202

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 5
Wednesday, December 3, 1969
Tassajara

Sesshin, Bodhisattva, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Oneness, Ceremony, Precepts, Wisdom...
Dec 03 1969
Tassajara

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 6

Sesshin, Ceremony, Freedom, Observe, Wisdom, Oneness, Beginners, training, Precepts,...
Dec 04 1969
Tassajara

OLD - 1969.12.05-serial.00076

Serial: SR-00076

Very short segment. Is actually 68-11-11- set aside.

Dec 05 1969

Shosan Ceremony

Serial: SF-05964

Friday, December 5, 1969

Previously described as intranscribable - now clearer
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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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