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Mind Waves

Serial: 67-01-12
Jan 12 1967
Los Altos

Communication

Serial: 67-02-02
Feb 02 1967
Los Altos

Epilogue: Some Personal Reflections

Serial: 67-03-00:
Mar 1967

We should Sit In The Middle Of Our Problems

Serial: 67-03-12 Sunday, March 12, 1967 Tony Artino notes Sokoji
Mar 12 1967
Sokoji

Buddha Nature

Serial: 67-03-22 Wednesday, March 22, 1967 Sokoji Tony Artino notes
Mar 22 1967
Sokoji

Control

Serial: 67-03-23
Mar 23 1967
Los Altos

When Small Mind Finds Itself In Big Mind

Serial: 67-03-26 Sunday, March 26, 1967 Sokoji Tony Artino notes
Mar 26 1967
Sokoji

Our Pockets Are Full Of Treasure Right Now

Serial: 67-04-02 Sunday April 2, 1967 Sokoji Tony Artino notes “Our pockets are full of treasure right now.”
Dogen, Beginner’s Mind,
Apr 02 1967
Sokoji

Give up all Preconceived Ideas and Feelings

Serial: 67-04-05 Wednesday, April 5, 1967 Sokoji Tony Artino notes “Give up all preconceived ideas and feelings”
Dogen,
Apr 05 1967
Sokoji

Original Buddhism

Serial: 67-04-06
Dogen,
Apr 06 1967
Los Altos

Mistakes in Practice

Serial: 67-04-13
Apr 13 1967
Los Altos

A Teaching Cannot Be Whole And Perfect

Serial: 67-04-16 Sunday April 16, 1967 Old Bush Street Zendo Tony Artino notes
Apr 16 1967
Sokoji

This Sesshin Was Wonderfully Done

Serial: SF-05100-C Saturday, April 22, 1967 Sesshin Lecture B San Francisco
Sesshin, Priest, Evil, Doubt, training
Apr 22 1967
B
Sokoji

You Must Give Up Worldly Desires

Serial: SF-05100-B Saturday, April 22, 1967 Sesshin Lecture A San Francisco
Sesshin, Family Practice, Doubt, Dragons, resistance, Priest, Hate, Freedom
Apr 22 1967
A
Sokoji

Our Human Nature and That of Buddha Are the Same

Serial: 67-04-26 Wednesday, April 26, 1967 Sokoji Tony Artino notes
Apr 26 1967
Sokoji

Zen Emphasizes the Simplest Way of Practice

Serial: 67-05-17 Wednesday, May 17, 1967 Sokoji Tony Artino notes
May 17 1967
Sokoji

Right Effort

Serial: 67-05-18
May 18 1967
Los Altos

Correct Zazen Is Your Home

Serial: 67-05-21 Sunday, May 21, 1967 Sokoji Tony Artino notes
May 21 1967
Sokoji

True Activity Includes Everything

Serial: 67-05-28 Sunday, May 28, 1967 Old Bush Street Zendo - Sokoji Tony Artino notes
May 28 1967
Sokoji

Religion is a Cultural-Social Phenomena as well as a Personal Experience

Serial: 67-05-31 Tony Artino notes Sokoji Wednesday, May 31, 1967
May 31 1967
Sokoji

Naturalness

Serial: 67-06-01
Jun 01 1967
Los Altos

Sesshin Lecture: Three Treasures

Serial: 67-06-11 Sunday, June 11, 1967 [Suzuki seems to be commenting on Shi Sho Ku* (?) of Dogen. When this is evident, Dogen's words are in quotation marks.] *SHUSHOGI [jrb]
Sesshin, Shushogi, Precepts,
Jun 11 1967

Continuing The Lecture on Shushogi

Serial: 67-06-12 Sunday LectureMonday, June 12, 1967 Original lecture title was "Continuing the Lecture on Shi-sho-ku". That was an error - Shi-sho-ku = Shushogi. [JRB]
Shushogi, Precepts,
Jun 12 1967

Opposites

Serial: 67-06-22-B
Sixth Patriarch,
Jun 22 1967
B
Los Altos

Introduce to you Kobun Chino Sensei

Serial: 67-06-22-A
Jun 22 1967
A
Los Altos

Truly Involved With The Development Of Our Way

Serial: 67-08-00-B ± August, 1967 Wind Bell Vol. VI Nos. 2-4, P.50
Aug 1967

Suzuki Roshi Writes on the Practice Period

Serial: 67-08-00-A ± August, 1967 Wind Bell Vol. VI Nos. 2-4, P.4
Aug 1967

Long Time Since I Saw You All

Serial: 67-08-00 ± August, 1967 Los Altos
Precepts,
Aug 1967
Los Altos

"The mind itself is Buddha"

Serial: 67-08-14 Monday, August 14, 1967 San Francisco [?]
Dogen, Shobogenzo,
Aug 14 1967

Genjo Koan

Serial: SF-05134A ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #14, by Shundo David Haye ===== The acquisition of Tassajara in 1967 was a huge leap for Zen Center. Suzuki Roshi had long been interested in finding a suitable location for a monastery; an...
Genjokoan, Dogen, Sesshin, Emptiness, New Year, Interview, Freedom
Aug 20 1967
Morning
Tassajara

When You Have A New Experience

Serial: SF-05134B ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #15, by Shundo David Haye ===== This talk was given later on the same day of the first Tassajara sesshin as the last one discussed (https://suzukiroshi.engagewisdom.com/talks/genjo-koanmorning...
Sesshin, Faith, Doubt
Aug 20 1967
Evening
Tassajara

Genjo Koan no 2

Serial: SF-05134C ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #16, by Shundo David Haye ===== This third talk from the historic inaugural sesshin at Tassajara in 1967, given the day after the first two, is divided into two parts, held together by the...
Sesshin, Dogen, Priest, Emptiness, Dragons, Describe, confusion, Hate
Aug 21 1967
Tassajara

Buddhism Is Not a Special Teaching; Enlightenment Is Not a Particular Stage

Serial: SF-05134D ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #17, by Shundo David Haye ===== About half way through this sesshin talk, you can start to hear crickets in the background, getting louder over the remaining twenty minutes. They are a typical...
Sesshin, Dogen, Genjokoan, Enemies, Continuous, Doubt, Religion, Peace
Aug 23 1967
Tassajara

To Polish A Tile Is Our Practice Actually

Serial: SF-05135B ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #18, by Shundo David Haye ===== Further to the date confusion and missing talks discussed last time, it seems that even Suzuki Roshi lost track of time during the first seven-day sesshin at...
Sesshin, Prajna Paramita, Shobogenzo, Discrimination, Silence
Aug 23 1967
Tassajara

Shosan Ceremony

August Sesshin, 1967August 24, 1967Tassajara [Opening sentences of Introduction missed.]
Sesshin, Shosan,
Aug 24 1967
B
Tassajara

Genjo Koan no 4

Serial: SF-05136 Track 1 17/8 - Suzuki lectures - beginning missed, one or two sentences; beginning: This is the last lecture of sesshin. We have talked of emptiness and form, but have not understood it well. Maezumi's words are included on...
Sesshin, Dogen, Genjokoan, Time, Faith, Emptiness, Continuous, Dragons
Aug 24 1967
A
Tassajara

Reflections on the Prajna Paramita Sutra

Serial: SF-05135A ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #19, by Shundo David Haye ===== This is the talk that was chosen by the Wind Bell (p69) to represent the first sesshin at Tassajara; some of the discussion was also presented in that issue...
Sesshin, Sengai, Time, Emptiness, Ego, Continuous, Evil, Nirvana, Concentration,...
Aug 24 1967
Tassajara

To Polish a Tile

Serial: 67-08-31 September 1, 1967 [8-31 is Thursday] Los Altos, Calif.
Aug 31 1967
Los Altos

If Our Teaching Is A Special Teaching

Serial: SF-05130B SR013 date? Fall 1967 Tassajara III - Side 2 2nd half - Part of Suzuki lecture copied
Religion
Sep 1967
Tassajara

Zen Is Also Buddhism

Serial: SF-05130C SR013 date? Fall 1967 Tassajara III - Side 1 + 1/2 side 2 Suzuki lecture copied
Mahayana, New Year, Buddha Nature, Hate, Observe, Concentration, Balance, Freedom,...
Sep 1967
Tassajara

Ignorance

Serial: SF-05131-A SR 014 - On this tape: lectures A and B and also first part of D. This is to be known as the A-B lecture tape or #1 ZMC (has been transcribed) Track 1 Roshi's lecture A 9/8/67 - copied
Prajna Paramita, Attachment, Freedom, training, Daily Life, Diversity, confusion,...
Sep 08 1967
Tassajara

Using Various Stones

Serial: SF-05131-C SR 014 - On this tape: lectures A and B and also first part of D. This is to be known as the A-B lecture tape or #1 ZMC (has been transcribed) Track 1 Roshi's lecture A 9/8/67 - copied
Sep 08 1967
B
Tassajara

Practice Zazen With Your Whole Mind And Body

Serial: SF-05131B This is lecture D from these notes on the reel boxes (05132-B was added to this)Several minutes of tape operator's notes at the end are included, the transcript was copied over from what was previously thought of as 66-08-15....
Instruction, Zazen, Posture, Beginners, Funeral, Religion, Instruction, Emotions,...
Sep 08 1967
Morning
Tassajara

The Practice of Constancy

Serial: SF-05132-A SR015 - On this tape is Lecture C and last part of Lecture D. This tape is known as the C lecture tape of as #2 - Track 1 Roshi's Lecture C 9/12/67 - copied
Prajna Paramita, Bodhisattva, Precepts, Constancy, New Year, Mahayana, Enemies, Anger...
Sep 12 1967
Tassajara

Negative and Positive

Serial: 67-09-27
Sep 27 1967
Los Altos

No Dualism

Serial: 67-11-02
Baso, Heart Sutra,
Nov 02 1967
Los Altos

KPFA Radio Interview with Elsa Knight Thompson

Serial: SF-05115 Monday, November 6, 1967 KPFA RADIO INTERVIEW WITH ELSA KNIGHT THOMPSON[Originally misdated - Friday, February 18, 1966]Lecture BKPFA/KPFB Studio, Pacifica Radio, Berkeley, CA
Interview, Don't Know Mind, Nirvana, Monastic Practice, Evil, Samsara, Practice...
Nov 06 1967
KPFA Berkeley

Putting Power In Your Hara

Serial: SF-05133-A Afternoon Sesshin Lecture Friday, December 1, 1967, Lecture A Zen Mountain Center
Sesshin, Dogen, Fukanzazengi, Buddha Mind, Big Mind, Separation, New Year,...
Dec 01 1967
A
Tassajara

True Practice

Serial: SF-05133-B Evening Sesshin Lecture Friday Evening, December 1, 1967, Lecture B Zen Mountain Center
Sesshin, Zuigan, Fox, Gratitude, Fox, Buddha Nature, Addiction, Discrimination,...
Dec 01 1967
B
Tassajara

Inner Power of Practice

Serial: SF-05137A SR017 - Track 1 - slow - Roshi Lecture - 12/2/67 - afternoon - copied
Sesshin, Blue Cliff Record, Concentration, Precepts, Monastic Practice, New Year,...
Dec 02 1967
Tassajara

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