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Beyond Duality: Embracing Buddha Nature

Interview, Buddha Nature, Balance, Observe, Evil, Building
Dec 01 1971

Seeing Through the Buddha's Eye

Buddha Mind, Gratitude, training, Discrimination, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Dec 1971

Transcending Ego: Path to Enlightenment

Precepts, stubbornness, Four Noble Truths, Observe, Pain, Mindfulness, Greed,...
Oct 03 1971

Breaking Self-Centered Chains of Suffering

Precepts, stubbornness, Four Noble Truths, Observe, Pain, Mindfulness, Tassajara Zen...
Oct 03 1971

Unveiling Freedom through Renunciation

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

Embodied Compassion Through Zen Precepts

Precepts, Observe, Three Treasures, Evil, Dragons, Continuous Practice, Lay
Aug 28 1971

Why We Must Have Rules

First Principle, Big Mind, Family Practice, Bell, Breath, lecture, Sutra, Observe...
Aug 17 1971
Tassajara

Why Then Is It Necessary To Accept Precepts

Precepts, Precepts, Big Mind, Buddha Nature, training, Religion, Observe, Priest,...
Jul 17 1971
City Center

Manifested Three Treasures

Precepts, Precepts, Emptiness, Priest, Anger, American, Sangha, lecture, Enemies,...
Jul 06 1971
City Center

Real Precepts Are Beyond Words

Precepts, Precepts, reality, Observe, Freedom, sitting, Emptiness, Sangha, Duality,...
Jul 02 1971
City Center

Wholehearted Sitting in Stillness

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

Catching Space: Zen's Living Wisdom

Breath, Compassion, Observe, Posture, Buddha Nature, Consciousness, Precepts, Silence...
Apr 27 1971

Humor Is More Real Than Reallity

Serial: SR-00274

Sesshin Lecture No. 5
Tuesday, February 9, 1971
San Francisco

Sesshin, Discrimination, Dragons, Observe, Emotions, Instruction, confusion
Feb 09 1971
City Center

The Boss of Everything

Zazen, Big Mind, confusion, Precepts, Bodhidharma, Zazen, Suffering, Observe...
Jan 16 1971
City Center

What Is Self?

Ceremony, Observe, sitting
Jan 03 1971
City Center

Breath and Being in Harmony

Breath, Observe, Interdependence, Emotions
1971

Teisho (Introduced by Jakusho Kwong)

Serial: SF-05452B

Mill Valley Zendo, talk by Suzuki Roshi

Emptiness, Precepts, Observe, Ego, Evil
Dec 23 1970
Mill Valley Zendo

Zazen Practice and Listen to the Right Teacher

Serial: SF-05631

===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #24, by Shundo David Haye =====

In the last years of Suzuki Roshi's life, very few talks were lost from the collections...

Sesshin, Dogen, Bodhidharma, Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Observe, Precepts, Faith...
Aug 03 1970
City Center

Universal Buddha Nature in All Beings

Emotions, Mindfulness, Observe, Anger, Buddha Nature, Patience, lecture, Obstacles,...
Aug 01 1970

Ekō Lecture 6

Serial: SR-00230

The Fourth Morning Eko
Wednesday, July 15, 1970
Tassajara

[This is the last in a series of six lectures by Suzuki on the four ekos chanted at the conclusion of...

Eko, Chanting, Monks, Priest, Offering, Buddha Nature, Wisdom, Observe, Separation,...
Jul 15 1970
Tassajara

Mind as Earth: Zen's Grounding Truth

Observe, Sangha, causation, Bowing, Obstacles, Hindrances, Ceremony, Religion,...
Jul 14 1970

Embrace Presence Through Zen Practice

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

Supported from Within

Serial: SR-00191

Ekō Lecture 4
The Second Morning Eko, Part 3 of 3
Sunday, July 12, 1970
Tassajara

[This is the fourth in a series of six lectures by Suzuki on the four...

Eko, Chanting, Priest, New Year, Wisdom, Suffering, Building, Observe, confusion,...
Jul 12 1970
Tassajara

Mind's Path to Liberation

Attachment, Buddha Nature, Observe, Liberation, Sanctuary, Building, Precepts,...
Jul 07 1970

Navigating Mind Realms Through Zazen

Observe
Jul 07 1970

Integrating Buddha Nature Through Practice

Obstacles, Hindrances, Buddha Nature, Consciousness, Ego, Delusion, Religion,...
Jul 06 1970

The Willow Tree Cannot Be Broken

Serial: SR-00220

SANDOKAI LECTURE X
Thursday, June 25, 1970
Tassajara

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

Meian ono-ono aitaishite,...

Branching Streams, Sandokai, Precepts, reality, War, Interdependence, Observe,...
Jun 25 1970
Tassajara

Without Any Idea of Attainment

Serial: SR-00061

Sandokai Lecture VIII
Wednesday, June 17, 1970
Tassajara

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

Line 21 Manako wa iro,...

Branching Streams, Sandokai, Precepts, Subject-and-Object, reality, Oneness, Monks,...
Jun 17 1970
Tassajara

Buddha Is Always Here

Serial: SR-00051

Sandokai Lecture III
Monday, June 1, 1970
Tassajara

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

Line 5 Reigen myoni kokettari...

Branching Streams, Sandokai, Emptiness, Buddha Nature, Suffering, Truth, Compassion,...
Jun 01 1970
Tassajara

Things-As-It-Is

Serial: SR-00048

Sandokai Lecture I
Wednesday, May 27, 1970
Tassajara

[This is the first in a series of lectures on the Sandokai (Chin. Cantong qi or Tisan-tiung-chii), a...

Branching Streams, Sandokai, Big Mind, Discrimination, Freedom, Oneness, Bell,...
May 27 1970
Tassajara

How To Observe Precepts

Serial: SR-00047

Sunday Morning, May 17, 1970
San Francisco

Precepts, Precepts, Chanting, Observe, Bodhidharma, Zazen, Mahayana, Posture,...
May 17 1970
City Center

Zen Wisdom: Path to True Nature

Mahayana, Precepts, Patience, Meditation, Enemies, Observe, Buddha Nature, Building,...
May 12 1970

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

Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind Temple

Serial: SF-05995

This is the bulk of the ceremony, with speakers other than Suzuki Roshi, in Japanese and English

training, Gratitude, Zoom, Ceremony, Obstacles, Observe, Silence, Enemies, Evil,...
Apr 25 1970
City Center

Awakening Through Zen's No-Mind

Interdependence, Don't Know Mind, Silence, Meditation, Gratitude, Rinzai,...
Apr 03 1970

The Zen of Going to the Rest Room

Ummon, Tangaryo, Culture, Monastic Practice, Suffering, American, Don't Know...
Mar 29 1970
City Center

Our Everyday Life Is Like A Movie

Anger, Instruction, Meditation, Posture, Observe, sitting
Mar 15 1970
City Center

The Background of Shikantaza

Pain, Observe, Consciousness, Posture, sitting
Feb 22 1970
City Center

“An Unsurpassed, Penetrating Buddha”

Emptiness, Subject-and-Object, Interdependence, Observe, Community, Hate, Forms,...
Feb 08 1970

Our Effort In Our Practice

Instruction, lecture, Observe, difficulty, sitting
Jan 31 1970
City Center

Shosan Ceremony

Serial: SF-05964

Friday, December 5, 1969

Previously described as intranscribable - now clearer
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File name: 69-12-05N: untitled level low. [Verbatim transcript not...

Ceremony, Shosan, Sixth Patriarch, Big Mind, Letting Go, Separation, Attachment,...
Dec 05 1969
Tassajara

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 6

Sesshin, Ceremony, Freedom, Observe, Wisdom, Oneness, Beginners, training, Precepts,...
Dec 04 1969
Tassajara

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,...
Nov 07 1969
Series 3, Talk 7
Tassajara

Living Authentically Amid Tradition

Greed, Funeral, training, Observe, Ceremony, lecture, Suffering, American
Oct 25 1969

Settling in the Dharma Mind

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

Some Questions

Question-and-Answer, Precepts, Doubt, Continuous Practice, Concentration, Birth-and-...
Aug 12 1969

Enjoy Your Life

Serial: SR-00031

Talk on the moon landing

heart, Observe
Jul 20 1969

Zen in Action: Mindful Living

Hate, Bell, Concentration, American, Discrimination, Observe, training, Meditation,...
Jul 09 1969

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,...
Jul 08 1969
Sokoji

Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen

Serial: SR-00033

July 1969
San Francisco

Morning.

Dogen, Buddha Nature, Evil, Freedom, Priest, Ego, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Jul 1969
Sokoji

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