Composure Talks

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Shikantaza, Kensho, Jijuyu Samadhi

Serial: BZ-00432A

Saturday Lecture

Shikantaza, Kensho, Jijuyu Zanmai, Dharma Transmission, Building, Daily Life,...
Mar 10 1984
Berkeley Zen Center

Decision to Focus on Practice and Role of the Teacher

Serial: BZ-00420A

Saturday Lecture

Practice, Teacher-and-Student, Monastic Practice, Non-discrimination, stubbornness,...
Jan 07 1984
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Fukanzazengi and Practice Realization

Serial: BZ-00043A

Saturday Lecture

Duality, Perfect Wisdom, Dragons, Doubt, Sixth Patriarch, Absolute-and-Relative,...
Oct 23 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #80

Serial: BZ-00033

Does a Baby Have the 6th Consciousness?, Saturday Lecture

Consciousness, Storehouse Consciousness, Monastic Practice, Discrimination, Buddha...
Jul 31 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

Zazen

Serial: BZ-00034B

Posture, Attention, Resistance, Naming, One-Day Sitting

Posture, Harmonizing, resistance, Fox, Composure, Duality, Religion, Peace, Karma...
Jul 16 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

Mindfulness and Care: Adapting to Conditions

Serial: BZ-01516A

Sesshin

Mindfulness, Lay Practice, Composure, Lay, Bell, Daily Life, Non-discrimination,...
Jun 01 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

Problems in Practice

Serial: BZ-00008B

Calm Mind in Daily Activities, Saturday Lecture

Daily Life, Non-violence, training, Continuous Practice, confusion, Daily Life,...
May 28 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #17

Serial: BZ-00029B

"Sitting Long and Getting Tired", Sesshin Day 5

BCR-17

 

Composure, Zazen, Koan, First Principle, Ordinary Mind, Samadhi, Composure,...
May 23 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

Vigor During Sesshin

Serial: BZ-00007A

Soto and Rinzai Practice Compared, Sesshin Day 3

Sesshin, Soto Zen, Rinzai, Rinzai, Soto Zen, Composure, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center...
May 21 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

Composure: The Third Paramita

Serial: BZ-00009B

Saturday Lecture

Kshanti, Composure, Happiness, training, Monastic Practice, Demons, confusion, Daily...
May 01 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

Lecture

Dragons, Demons, Patience, Zoom, Happiness, Composure, Interview, Tassajara Zen...
Nov 30 1980
SFZC

April 6th, 1979, Serial No. 00607

Lay Ordination, Funeral, Composure, Lay, Ordination
Apr 06 1979

Crafting Consciousness Through Vows

Vow, Composure, Concentration, Doubt
Nov 02 1975

Zen State of Artful Vows

Vow, Composure, Concentration, Doubt
Nov 02 1975

October 31st, 1975, Serial No. 00336

Vow, Composure, Faith, Doubt
Oct 31 1975

October 31st, 1975, Serial No. 00566

Vow, Composure, Faith, Doubt
Oct 31 1975

October 27th, 1975, Serial No. 00015

Composure, Concentration, Passions, Compassion, Doubt
Oct 27 1975

October 27th, 1975, Serial No. 00562

Composure, Concentration, Passions, Compassion, Doubt
Oct 27 1975

March 3rd, 1973, Serial No. 00095

Precepts, Building, Passions, Kinhin, Composure
Mar 03 1973

Zen Mind Balanced Body

Posture, Composure, Instruction, Sambhogakaya, Bodhidharma
Apr 01 1972

February 19th, 1972, Serial No. 00443

Bowing, Hate, Composure, Building, Sesshin
Feb 19 1972

Embracing Flow: Zen's Middle Way

Buddha Nature, Soto Zen, Diversity, Composure, American, Chanting, confusion,...
Sep 28 1971

Unveiling Freedom through Renunciation

Precepts, Sangha, Observe, Composure, Buddha Nature, Three Treasures, Suffering,...
Sep 11 1971

Freedom Within Karma's Embrace

Consciousness, confusion, lecture, Birth-and-Death, difficulty, Discrimination, Evil...
Aug 03 1971

Bridging Minds: East and West Consciousness

Consciousness, Attachment, Concentration, Composure, confusion, Mahayana, Lotus Sutra...
Jul 20 1971

Seeing Beyond the Physical Eye

Meditation, difficulty, Anger, Happiness, Composure, American, Fox, Passions, Hate,...
Jun 1971

Wholehearted Sitting in Stillness

Concentration, Right Effort, Instruction, Pain, Composure, Mindfulness, Observe,...
May 08 1971

Embracing the Ordinary: Dogen's Zen Insight

training, Breath, Offering, Pain, Demons, Instruction, Composure, Interdependence,...
May 05 1971

Today We May Be Very Happy

Serial: SR-00057

Sandokai Lecture VI
Wednesday, June 10, 1970
Tassajara

[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

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...

Buddha, Emptiness, Zazen, Don't Know Mind, Emptiness, Building, 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 Zen Mountain Center, training...
Feb 28 1970
City Center

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

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, training, Faith
Aug 30 1969
Tassajara

Not Always So

Serial: SR-00124

August Sesshin Lecture
Thursday, August 7, 1969
San Francisco

Sesshin, Dogen, Interdependence, Freedom, Gratitude, Composure, Posture, Emptiness,...
Aug 07 1969
Sokoji

Blue Cliff Records-43

Serial: SR-00032

Tozan's hot and cold.

Blue Cliff Record, Emptiness, Pain, Monks, difficulty, Forms, Hate, Commitment,...
Jul 26 1969
Tassajara

Ordinary Mind, Buddha Mind

Composure, reality, difficulty, Freedom
Mar 30 1969

Nansen's “Everyday Mind Is Dao”

Truth, Birth-and-Death, Wisdom, zen, Pain, Death, difficulty, Composure, Sutra...
Mar 10 1969

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....

Baso, Koan, Blue Cliff Record, Attachment, Composure, Discrimination, difficulty,...
Mar 09 1969
Sokoji

Zen Checkmate: Beyond Material Moves

Suffering, Delusion, Composure, Meditation, Lineage, Anger, Happiness, Hate, American...
Mar 1969

Meditation as Living Enlightenment

Meditation, Transmission, Letting Go, Buddha Nature, Discrimination, Composure,...
Feb 1969

Zen Chaos and Cultural Awakening

Meditation, difficulty, Don't Know Mind, Chanting, Building, Silence, Buddha...
1969

True Happiness and Renewal of Practice at Year's End

Serial: SF-05970A

Newly uploaded recording of this talk.

Happiness, Buddha Nature, Happiness, Buddha Nature, Composure
Dec 21 1968
Sokoji

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-8

Serial: SR-00001

Fall 1968

Lotus Sutra, Precepts, Faith, Sutra, Priest, Suffering, Composure, Balance, Mahayana...
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 8
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-10

Serial: SR-00002

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, sitting, Ceremony, Emptiness, Priest, Funeral, Composure, heart, Monks,...
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 10
Tassajara

Observing the Precepts

Serial: SF-05397

This is the second talk that Suzuki Roshi gave at Esalen on consecutive nights in June 1968.

Precepts, Precepts, Teacher-and-Student, Ego, Posture, Karma, training, Composure,...
Jun 29 1968
Esalen

Because I Was Not Well

Serial: SF-05143A

SR023 Track 1 Suzuki Roshi's afternoon sesshin 4-23-68 copied [there are also photographs of hand-written notes on missing portions of Q&A - per tape operator's...

Sesshin, Koan, Ordinary Mind, everyday mind, Faith, Composure, Doubt, Religion...
Apr 23 1968
A
Tassajara

Embodying Full Function in Zen

Serial: SF-05097I

Sesshin Lecture 1966 Tape #2 Track 4 instruction by Rev Katagiri Friday morning

Composure, Zazen
Aug 19 1966
Sokoji

The first day of the sesshin is almost finished

Serial: SF-05093K

Monday, August 15, 1966
Sesshin: Evening Lecture, Lecture D
Sokoji, San Francisco

Sesshin, Freedom, causation, Composure, Posture
Aug 15 1966
D
Sokoji

Genjo-Koan: Paragraphs 7-9

Serial: SF-05098A

Sunday morning lecture by Suzuki Roshi
June 19 1966 (19 added later?)

Other notes on box:
Incomplete (muddled) late on then ends.
"Other side"...

Dogen, Genjokoan, Composure, Liberation, Faith
Jun 19 1966
B
Sokoji

Buddhism Has Many Annual Layers Like A Big Tree

Serial: SF-05124B

One-Day Sesshin Evening Lecture
Saturday, December 11, 1965, Lecture B
Sokoji, San Francisco

Sesshin, Precepts, Precepts, Three Treasures, Observe, Doubt, Composure, Priest,...
Dec 11 1965
B
Sokoji

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