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Title	Speaker	Date
The Zen of Going to the Rest Room Serial: SR-00144 - Ummon, Tangaryo, Culture, Monastic Practice, Suffering, American, Don't Know Mind, Big...	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 29 1970 City Center
Way-Seeking Mind Serial: SF-05361 Saturday Lecture Of March Sesshin Saturday, March 28, 1970 San Francisco - Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin, Monastic Practice, Peace	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 28 1970 City Center
Our Everyday Life Is Like A Movie Serial: SR-00155 - *Anger, Instruction, Meditation, Posture, Observe, sitting*	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 15 1970 City Center
Letters From Emptiness Serial: SR-00156 How to Understand the Idea of Emptiness Sunday, March 8, 1970 San Francisco - *Emptiness, reality, Describe, Doubt, training, Enemies*	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 08 1970 City Center
Lecture To Prof. Lewis R. Lancaster's Visiting Class Serial: 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 student questions. Posture of zazen. - Buddha, Emptiness, Zazen, Don't Know Mind, Emptiness, Building, Suzuki Roshi, zen,...	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 01 1970 Tassajara
Practice To Be Like A Stone Serial: SF-06125 SR-70-02-28 Sesshin lecture #6 (last lecture) - followed by service #2 for Trudy Dixon NB - is 1970 despite the year added to the photos - *Don't Know Mind, Composure, Diversity, Tassajara, training*	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 28 1970 City Center
Non-Dualistic Practice Serial: SR-00260 Sesshin Lecture No. 3: Wednesday, February 25, 1970 San Francisco - Sesshin, Big Mind, difficulty, zen, Duality, Karma, Anger, Mahayana, training, Emptiness,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 25 1970 City Center
Selflessness, Being and Non-Being: The Background of Shikantaza Serial: SR-00261 Sesshin Lecture No. 1: Monday, February 23, 1970 San Francisco - Sesshin, Buddha Nature, Emptiness, Evil, Mahayana, Posture, Freedom, Continuous, confusion,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 23 1970 City Center
The Background of Shikantaza Serial: SR-00256 - *Pain, Observe, Consciousness, Posture, sitting*	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 22 1970 City Center
“An Unsurpassed, Penetrating Buddha” Serial: SR-00257 - *Emptiness, Subject-and-Object, Interdependence, Observe, Community, Hate, Forms, reality,...*	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 08 1970
Brown Rice is Just Right Serial: SR-00247 Morning Sesshin Lecture Sunday, February 1, 1970 City Center - Sesshin, Emptiness, Discrimination, Buddha Nature, training, Hate, Suffering, Pain, reality,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 01 1970 A City Center
Each One Of Us Is A Cook Serial: SR-00258 Afternoon Sesshin Tea Lecture Sunday, February 1, 1970 - Sesshin, Emptiness, Forms, Compassion, Pain	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 01 1970 B
Our Effort In Our Practice Serial: SR-00248 - *Instruction, Describe, lecture, Observe, difficulty, sitting*	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 31 1970 City Center
Caring for the Soil Serial: SR-00199 Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism Sunday, January 25, 1970 San Francisco - Emptiness, Mahayana, Buddha Nature, difficulty, Greed, Gratitude, lecture, Hate...	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 25 1970 City Center
Rules Serial: SF-06038 - Dogen, Posture, Balance, Doubt, Faith	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 18 1970 City Center
Ordination Ceremony: Bill Kwong and Silas Hoadley Serial: SR-00069-C - Ceremony, Priest, Ceremony, Describe, American	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 11 1970 City Center
Respect for Things Serial: SR-00200 What Is Our Practice? Sunday, January 4, 1970 San Francisco Practice as taking care of everything. Not making a noise with the chairs. Practice with new people coming to City Center. Extending the spirit of the zendo to everyday... - Zendo, Bodhisattva Way, Big Mind, Building, Concentration, difficulty, Sutra, Bowing, Offering...	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 04 1970 City Center
Fundamental Buddhist Point: To Adjust Ourselves To Our Surroundings Serial: SR-00192 Adjusting to life at City Center. Cleaning and zazen. Do we need furniture to practice? - Dogen, Eiheiji, Zazen, Culture, Building, sitting	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 21 1969 City Center
Shosan Ceremony Serial: SF-05964 Friday, December 5, 1969 Previously described as intranscribable - now clearer ----- File name: 69-12-05N: untitled level low. [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem.)] - Ceremony, Shosan, Sixth Patriarch, Big Mind, Letting Go, Separation, Attachment, Dragons,...	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 05 1969 Tassajara
Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 6 Serial: SR-00201 - Sesshin, Ceremony, Freedom, Observe, Wisdom, Oneness, Beginners, training, Precepts, zen...	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 04 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...	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 03 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, Anger,...	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 02 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, Priest,...	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 01 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, Beginners,...	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 30 1969 Tassajara
Way-Seeking Mind, Part I Serial: SR-00267 Winter Sesshin, Lecture No. 1 Saturday, November 29, 1969 Tassajara - Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin, reality, Faith	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 29 1969 Tassajara
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...	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 25 1969 City Center
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	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 22 1969 City Center
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 outside of yourself. Discussion at Tassajara around sex.... - Big Mind, Enlightenment, Passions, Big Mind, Don't Know Mind, Consciousness, Community,...	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 16 1969
Form Is Emptiness and Emptiness Is Form Serial: SR-00243 - Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Big Mind, Forms, Don't Know Mind, Interdependence, heart, Monks,...	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 13 1969
Some Questions Serial: SR-00244 - Lotus Sutra, Time, Ego, Wisdom, Passions, Mindfulness, Buddha Nature, Culture, Oneness,...	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 11 1969
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 with Peter’s interviews long ago and maybe I was the... - Japan, Komazawa University, Buddhism, Shobogenzo, Obon, Conversation, Building, Offering,...	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 09 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, Precepts...	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 07 1969 Series 3, Talk 7 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, Doubt...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 30 1969 Series 3, Talk 6 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	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 28 1969 Series 3, Talk 5 Tassajara
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-4 Serial: SR-00038 [Third Lotus Sutra Series]Saturday Evening, October 25, 1969Zen Mountain Center - Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Wisdom, Buddha Nature, Sutra, Priest, Mahayana, Suffering,...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 25 1969 Series 3, Talk 4 Tassajara
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-2 Serial: SR-00037 Third Lotus Sutra SeriesThursday Evening, October 23, 1969Zen Mountain Center [The recording starts with Suzuki reading from: Saddharma Pundarika or The Lotus of the True Law, translated by H. Kern, New York: Dover, 1963 (an... - Lotus Sutra, First Principle, First Principle, Don't Know Mind, Consciousness, Sutra,...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 23 1969 Series 3, Talk 2 Tassajara
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 teaching. Suzuki Roshi's mother recited parts of the sutra when he was... - Lotus Sutra, Mahayana, Dogen, Mahayana, Lotus Sutra, Precepts, Ego, Sutra, Priest, Building,...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 20 1969 Series 3, Talk 1 Tassajara
New Students' Questions Serial: SR-00211 Tuesday, October 14, 1969San Francisco - Question-and-Answer, Bodhisattva Vow, War, Buddha Nature, Addiction, Diversity, Vows,...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 14 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 Sotan. Enjoying teaching people who have no preconceptions about... - Priest, Meiji, Japan, Dogen, Priest, training, New Year, Ceremony, Obstacles, Enemies, Monks,...	Suzuki Roshi	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, Bell,...	Suzuki Roshi	Sep 16 1969 1 of 2
Interview of Suzuki by Peter Schneider Serial: 69-09-16-IB Entered onto disk by DC 1996 or soRevised by Bill Redican 9/01 [I dated this 69-09-16 to go with other Peter Schneider interview and lecture of that date. Transcription was difficult with much time spent making sure -- or maybe... - Interview, First Principle,	Suzuki Roshi	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 Peter Schneider dated that day. - DC-3-09] [Is this in his... -	Suzuki Roshi	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	Suzuki Roshi	Sep 16 1969 2 of 2
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, American,...	Suzuki Roshi	Sep 14 1969
Sesshin, Sixth Night Lecture Serial: SR-00129 TassajaraSeptember, 1969 - Sesshin, Don't Know Mind, Posture, Ceremony, Addiction, Duality, Beginners, Zazen,...	Suzuki Roshi	Sep 1969 Tassajara
Sesshin, Third Night Lecture Serial: SR-00130 TassajaraSeptember, 1969 - *Sesshin, Emptiness, reality, Passions, Intuition, Bell, Forms, American, difficulty...*	Suzuki Roshi	Sep 1969 Tassajara
Shosan Ceremony Serial: SR-00213 TassajaraSeptember, 1969 [Beginning of ceremony not recorded.] - Sesshin, Shosan, Perfect Wisdom, Dragons, Breath, Death, Intuition, Lay, Bell, Continuous,...	Suzuki Roshi	Sep 1969 Tassajara
Stand Up By The Ground Serial: SF-05209 Protection Master "Suzuki Roshi summer sesshin 1969 2nd night lecture Sesshin, Second Night LectureSeptember, 1969Tassajara - Sesshin, Dogen, Time, Continuous, Freedom, Doubt	Suzuki Roshi	Sep 1969 Tassajara
Wherever You Are, Enlightenment Is There Serial: SF-05184A Sesshin: First Night Lecture, “I Don't Know Zazen”September 1969Tassajara Knowing that we have buddha nature even while we are in the dualistic world of good and bad. Analogy with various parts of a meal. Analogy... - Dogen, Buddha Nature, Enlightenment, Five Ranks, Buddha Nature, Composure, Emotions, Doubt...	Suzuki Roshi	Sep 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...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 30 1969 Tassajara

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