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Zen Now: Embrace Present Purity

Birth-and-Death, Consciousness, difficulty, American, Building
Oct 1971

Embracing Reality: Beyond Speculation

Birth-and-Death, Consciousness, difficulty, Building, Culture, Religion, American...
Oct 1971

Transiency: Cultivating Compassion in Change

Impermanence, Building, difficulty, Attachment, Suffering, Pain
Aug 07 1971

Embracing Emptiness in Everyday Life

Hindrances, Discrimination, Birth-and-Death, Instruction, difficulty, training,...
Aug 07 1971

Freedom Within Karma's Embrace

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

Unified Essence, Diverse Realities

Consciousness, Offering, Intention, Beginners, difficulty
Jul 10 1971

Unveiling Buddha Nature in Daily Life

Lotus Sutra, Happiness, difficulty, Buddha Nature, Oneness, Breath, Lay, realization...
Jun 17 1971

Calmness of Mind

Serial: SR-00151

Sesshin Lecture No. 2
Sunday, June 7, 1971
San Francisco

Practice is to expose yourself as you are, express yourself fully. Accepting your teacher's words....

Sesshin, Zazen, Breath, Community, Emptiness, Priest, Pain, Community, heart, Hate,...
Jun 07 1971
City Center

Seeing Beyond the Physical Eye

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

Breaking Free: Effort and Mindfulness

Breath, difficulty, Consciousness, Buddha Nature, training, Obstacles, Posture,...
Apr 04 1971

Changing Our Karma

Baso, Concentration, Karma, Suffering, difficulty, Ceremony
Mar 09 1971
City Center

Why We Have So Many Problems

Serial: SR-00153

Tuesday, March 2, 1971
8 am Tuesday Morning
San Francisco

difficulty, Ceremony, Concentration, reality, Addiction, sitting, Ego, confusion,...
Mar 02 1971
City Center

The Driver

Anger, difficulty, Karma, Freedom, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Peace, confusion,...
Feb 27 1971
City Center

Compassionate Living in Zen Practice

Oneness, Ego, stubbornness, Obstacles, Samadhi, Karma, Bell, difficulty, Attachment,...
Dec 13 1970

Compassion's Path: Bridging Illusion and Reality

Attachment, Compassion, Hate, difficulty, Suffering, American, Building, Happiness,...
Dec 13 1970

Living the Bodhisattva Path Daily

Vow, Bell, difficulty, Lay, Delusion, Compassion, Evil, Hate, lecture
Dec 12 1970

Finding Peace in Unyielding Acceptance

Pain, Patience, difficulty, Birth-and-Death, Demons, Enemies, Transmission, Silence,...
Oct 07 1970

Embracing Life's Dance with Acceptance

Patience, Silence, difficulty, Pain, Meditation, lecture, Interdependence, Funeral,...
Oct 05 1970

Kashaya: Trust and Existence Unveiled

Fasting, Chanting, Vow, Precepts, difficulty, Hate, Separation, Culture, Lay,...
Sep 22 1970

Embracing the Absolute Self

Discrimination, Religion, Patience, Enthusiasm, Chanting, difficulty, Suffering,...
Aug 18 1970

Mudra Practice and How to Accept Instructions from Various Teachers

Tatsugami, Yoshida, Beginners, Posture, Instruction, difficulty
Jul 26 1970
City Center

Embrace Presence Through Zen Practice

Obstacles, Buddha Nature, Hate, Hindrances, causation, Enemies, Observe, confusion,...
Jul 14 1970

Do Not Pass Your Days and Nights in Vain

Serial: SR-00221

Sandokai Lecture XIII: “Don't Spend Your Time in Vain”
Monday, July 6, 1970
Tassajara

[This lecture is concerned with the following lines of the Sandokai:...

Branching Streams, Sandokai, Sixth Patriarch, Dogen, difficulty, sitting, zen,...
Jul 06 1970
Tassajara

Suffering Is A Valuable Thing

Serial: SR-00218

Sandokai Lecture XI
Saturday, June 27, 1970
Tassajara

[The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture:

Line 33 Bammotsu onozukara...

Branching Streams, Sandokai, Suffering, difficulty, Community, Emptiness, Pain,...
Jun 27 1970
Tassajara

We Are Just a Tiny Speck of Big Being

Serial: SR-00055

Sandokai Lecture V: Lecture to Professor Weller's Visiting Class
Saturday, June 6, 1970
Tassajara

[Note. This lecture was given-- as a general introduction...

Branching Streams, Sandokai, lecture, Freedom, difficulty, Forms, Evil, Duality,...
Jun 06 1970
Tassajara

Warm Hand to Warm Hand

Serial: SR-00049

Sandokai Lecture II
Sunday, May 30, 1970
Tassajara

[The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture:

Line 2 tozai mitsuni aifusu....

Branching Streams, Sandokai, Truth, Transmission, reality, New Year, difficulty,...
May 30 1970
Tassajara

Zen Center and City Practice

Serial: SR-00045

Sunday, May 10, 1970
City Center, San Francisco

Building, Intention, Meditation, War, Observe, Death, difficulty
May 10 1970
City Center

We Try To Control Or Restrict Our Activity

Serial: SR-00044

Tuesday Evening, May 5, 1970
City Center, San Francisco

Culture, Posture, Evil, difficulty, Attachment, zen, Pain, American, reality, Freedom...
May 05 1970
City Center

Embarking on the Zen Vessel

Hate, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Enemies, difficulty, Attachment, lecture, Demons...
Apr 12 1970

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,...
Feb 25 1970
City Center

“An Unsurpassed, Penetrating Buddha”

Emptiness, Subject-and-Object, Interdependence, Observe, Community, Hate, Forms,...
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,...
Feb 01 1970
City Center

Our Effort In Our Practice

Instruction, lecture, Observe, difficulty, sitting
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...
Jan 25 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...

Zendo, Bodhisattva Way, Big Mind, Building, Concentration, difficulty, Sutra, Bowing...
Jan 04 1970
City Center

Awakening Within: Embrace Your Buddha Nature

training, New Year, Don't Know Mind, difficulty, Buddha Nature, Meditation,...
Dec 28 1969

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

Infinite Wisdom: Emptiness in Practice

lecture, difficulty, Perfect Wisdom, Balance, Don't Know Mind, Meditation,...
Dec 02 1969

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, Vow, heart, Monks,...
Dec 01 1969
Tassajara

Beyond Words: Living Zen Wisdom

Silence, difficulty, Meditation, Buddha Mind, Enemies, Buddha Nature, Discrimination...
Oct 07 1969

Settling in the Dharma Mind

Concentration, difficulty, Meditation, Happiness, Discrimination, American,...
Sep 23 1969

Experiencing Zen: Intuition Over Instruction

Instruction, Concentration, Samadhi, difficulty, training, lecture, Meditation,...
Sep 03 1969

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

Everyday Zen: Path to Enlightenment

Monastic Practice, training, American, Meditation, Bell, Ego, Emotions, difficulty,...
Aug 26 1969

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,...
Aug 06 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

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,...
Jul 01 1969
Tassajara

Reviving Dogen's Dharma Transmission

Dharma Transmission, Transmission, realization, Ceremony, difficulty, Mandala, Soto...
Jun 10 1969

Climbing Life's Peaks for Insight

Birth-and-Death, New Year, Silence, lecture, Suffering, Pain, causation, Continuous...
Apr 14 1969

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