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Title	Speaker	Date
Shosan Ceremony Serial: SR-00075 - Shosan, First Principle, Emptiness, Compassion, Lotus Sutra, Patience, sitting, Emotions,...	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 11 1968 Tassajara
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	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 21 1968 Sokoji
untitled Serial: SR-00007 Newly reprocessed recording should be a little clearer - Lotus Sutra, Monks, Breath, Building	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 24 1968 Sokoji
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, Faith...	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 29 1968 Sokoji
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 abbot from the monastery. A translation of this... -	Suzuki Roshi	1969 Tassajara
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. Understanding everyday activity through duality and oneness.... - Baso, Koan, Blue Cliff Record, Attachment, Composure, Discrimination, difficulty, Buddha...	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 09 1969 Sokoji
Nansen's “Everyday Mind Is Dao” Serial: SR-00010 - *Truth, Birth-and-Death, Wisdom, zen, Pain, Death, difficulty, Composure, Describe, Sutra...*	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 10 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,...	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 15 1969 Sokoji
Our Practice Should Be Based On The Idea Of Selflessness Serial: SR-00012 Sunday Morning, March 16, 1969 - *Monastic Practice, Truth*	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 16 1969
Ordinary Mind, Buddha Mind Serial: SR-00013 - *Composure, reality, difficulty, Freedom*	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 30 1969
The Only Desire That Is Complete Is Buddha's Desire Serial: SR-00014 - *Buddha Nature, Freedom, difficulty, Wisdom, War, Culture, Posture, lecture, Precepts, Priest...*	Suzuki Roshi	Apr 08 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, training...	Suzuki Roshi	Apr 19 1969
Jumping Off the 100-Foot Pole Serial: SR-00016 Sunday Lecture Sunday, April 20, 1969 - *Buddha Nature, Evil, Priest, Big Mind, Compassion, Continuous, reality*	Suzuki Roshi	Apr 20 1969
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, Vows,...	Suzuki Roshi	Apr 29 1969 Sokoji
Suzuki's 65th Birthday Serial: SR-00018 Sunday Morning, May 18, 1969Sokoji, San Francisco - Priest, Building, Tassajara, Beginners, Instruction, Anger, Posture, Pain, American...	Suzuki Roshi	May 18 1969 Sokoji
Yakusan did not give lectures for a long time Serial: SF-05961 June 1969Tassajara Story of Yakusan saying he was not a teacher to give lectures. Making effort, and paying attention. What is right effort? - *Priest, Freedom*	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 1969 Tassajara
How should we establish our system of practice in San Francisco Serial: SR-00019 Tuesday Evening, June 17, 1969San Francisco Just sit, and follow the teacher's instruction. Story of four kinds of horse. Humans go to the moon, but don't understand themselves. Have no ideas about Buddhahood, or worry... - Rinzai, Soto Zen, Dogen, Zazen, New Year, Concentration, Big Mind, Priest, Pain, Addiction,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 17 1969 Sokoji
Direct Experience of Reality Serial: SR-00020 - Baso, Dogen, lecture, Sutra, Forms, Pain, sitting	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 22 1969 Sokoji
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 throughout. - Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Current Events, Balance, Faith, Beginners, Continuous...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 29 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, sitting...*	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 01 1969 Tassajara
Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen Serial: SR-00033 July 1969San Francisco Morning. - Dogen, Buddha Nature, Evil, Freedom, Priest, Ego, Tassajara, Transmission, Culture, lecture,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 1969 Sokoji
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, Death...*	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 03 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, Describe,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 08 1969 Sokoji
FORM AND EMPTINESS II Serial: SR-00027 Wednesday, July 9, 1969 Tassajara - Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Forms, reality, Enemies, Truth, training, American, Duality, Balance,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 09 1969 Tassajara
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	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 11 1969 Sokoji
I have nothing in my mind Serial: SR-00029 - *Emptiness, Forms, Zazen, Buddha Nature, Freedom, Passions, Interview, Beginners, Balance,...*	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 15 1969 Sokoji
Enjoy Your Life Serial: SR-00031 Talk on the moon landing - *heart, Observe*	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 20 1969
Blue Cliff Records-43 Serial: SR-00032 Tozan's hot and cold. - Blue Cliff Record, Emptiness, Pain, Monks, difficulty, Forms, Hate, Commitment, sitting,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 26 1969 Tassajara
That is the purpose of counting Serial: SR-00034 - *Truth, Daily Life, Anger, reality, Karma, Emptiness, Wisdom*	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 28 1969 Tassajara
The Most Important Precept Serial: SR-00035 - Precepts, Dogen, Eiheiji, Sanctuary, Hate, Suffering, Truth	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 01 1969 Tassajara
The First Teaching Serial: SR-00158 Teaching of impermanence, everything changing; also there is selflessness, suffering and nirvana. The sufferings of birth, death, sickness and old age. Causes of suffering, because of ego. - Suffering, Ego, Impermanence, Birth-and-Death, Suffering, Wisdom, Truth, Attachment, heart,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 02 1969 Tassajara
We Practice Zazen So That We Attain Selflessness Serial: SR-00137 - *Suffering, Wisdom, Dragons, Don't Know Mind, Meditation, Separation, sitting, Describe,...*	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 03 1969 Tassajara
To Actually Practice Selflessness Serial: SR-00125 August Sesshin Lecture Wednesday, August 6, 1969 San Francisco - Sesshin, Pain, Fox, Precepts, Freedom, Funeral, Monks, Liberation, difficulty, Continuous,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 06 1969 Sokoji
Not Always So Serial: SR-00124 August Sesshin Lecture Thursday, August 7, 1969 San Francisco - Sesshin, Dogen, Interdependence, Freedom, Gratitude, Composure, Posture, Emptiness, Truth...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 07 1969 Sokoji
Some Questions Serial: SR-00128 - Question-and-Answer, Precepts, Doubt, Continuous, Concentration, Birth-and-Death, Funeral,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 12 1969
Our Way To Attain Liberation Serial: SF-05087-B Monday Evening, August 18, 1969 Tassajara Story of the Sixth Patriarch. Practice with everyone else at the monastery, without self-centered ideas. Answering student questions. Dan Gourley reel #4 - Sixth Patriarch, Monastic Practice, Japan, Aspects of Practice, Discrimination, Faith,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 18 1969 Tassajara
Some Questions Serial: SF-05087-A Roshi's Lectures - 2 of them - Aug 21 Side 2 Q&A session Q1 - explain 12 links of causation, Q - war - striving for a cause - even peace is necessary though futile (on cassette) - Dan Gourley #4 - Question-and-Answer, causation, Current Events, Passions, Fox, Gratitude, Commitment, Freedom...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 21 1969 Tassajara
Twelve Links of Causation Serial: SR-00135 Twelve Links Of Causation Juni-innen (Jap.) Dvada-aiga-pratatyasamutpada (San.) English Japanese Sanskrit -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 1. ignorance mumyo avidya 2. action... - *Consciousness, Suffering, causation, Discrimination, Emptiness, Fasting, Passions, confusion,...*	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 23 1969 Tassajara
Question and Answer Serial: SR-00083 - Question-and-Answer, Buddha Nature, Suffering, Separation, Pain, American, Anger, Attachment,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 25 1969 Tassajara
Some Questions Serial: SR-00133 - Question-and-Answer, Breath, Buddha Nature, Posture, sitting, Tassajara, Offering, Pain,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 28 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
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
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
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

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