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Embracing Suffering Through Zen Awareness

Suffering, Four Noble Truths, Soto Zen, Instruction, Posture, Nirvana, difficulty,...
Oct 02 1971

Embracing Stillness Amid Life's Flux

Birth-and-Death, Posture, Constancy, Hate, Precepts, Breath, Happiness, Meditation,...
Sep 23 1971

Momentary Reality: Embracing the Ephemeral

Bell, Posture, Hate, Addiction, Attachment, Consciousness
Aug 10 1971

Embracing Transiency in Zen Living

Posture, Concentration, Attachment, Constancy, Birth-and-Death, Hate
Aug 09 1971

Bridging Minds: East and West Consciousness

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

Transiency and Tranquility Through Mindfulness

Constancy, Ego, Evil, Posture, Nirvana, Religion, Hate, Building
Jul 02 1971

Ego's Illusion and Mindful Growth

Monastic Practice, Mindfulness, Buddha Nature, Enthusiasm, Posture, Ego, Meditation,...
Jul 1971

Precepts as Original Nature

Precepts, Bodhidharma, Precepts, Concentration, Building, Posture, New Year,...
Jun 12 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

Breaking Free: Effort and Mindfulness

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

Breath, Mind, and Zen Harmony

Breath, Posture, Buddha Nature, Evil, Instruction, Meditation
Apr 02 1971

Breathing into Zen Harmony

Breath, Posture, Don't Know Mind, Instruction, Building, confusion, Delusion,...
Apr 01 1971

The Driver

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

Be Kind with Yourself

Serial: SR-00112

Warm-hearted practice. Breathing and posture in zazen. We all have different circumstances, but in the monastery, we have one practice. Rules give freedom to practice.

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Dogen, Zazen, Tatsugami, Freedom, Instruction, Monks, Posture, Priest, American...
Feb 23 1971
Tassajara

True Concentration

Serial: SR-00078

Right Concentration
Sunday, January 10, 1971
San Francisco

Avalokiteshvara, Tatsugami, Shushogi, Freedom, Concentration, Commitment, Posture...
Jan 10 1971
City Center

Enlightenment: A Journey Beyond Attainment

Discrimination, Pain, Beginners, Buddha Nature, Religion, Interdependence, Lineage,...
1971

Living Zen: Embodying Dharma Principles

Transmission, Meditation, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Hindrances, Samadhi,...
Dec 1970

Embracing Life's Direct Experience

Intuition, Posture, Building, Patience, Intention, Culture, Delusion
Sep 20 1970

Zazen Harmony Through Emptiness

Posture, Hate, Bowing, Mahayana, Ceremony, Religion, Realization, Pain
Sep 15 1970

Zen Harmony: Beyond Rituals

Ceremony, Chanting, Buddha Nature, Posture, Lay, Bowing, Oneness, Culture, Emotions...
Sep 13 1970

Harmonizing Mind Through Natural Presence

Bell, Breath, Buddha Nature, Posture, American, Instruction, Building
Jul 30 1970

Mudra Practice and How to Accept Instructions from Various Teachers

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

Embracing Natural Balance in Zen

Dragons, Concentration, Breath, Enemies, Posture, Hate, Pain
Jun 06 1970

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

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, Pain, American, Freedom
May 05 1970
City Center

On Breathing

Serial: SR-00139

Sesshin Lecture, No. 1, Saturday Evening, May 2, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Posture, Pain, Sangha, Enemies, Death
May 02 1970
City Center

Sincere Practice

Serial: SR-00140

How To Have Sincere Practice
Tuesday, April 28, 1970
San Francisco

Tatsugami, Dogen, Precepts, Monks, Intuition, Don't Know Mind, Posture, Buddha...
Apr 28 1970
City Center

Our Everyday Life Is Like A Movie

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

Selflessness, Being and Non-Being: The Background of Shikantaza

Serial: SR-00261

Sesshin Lecture No. 1:
Monday, February 23, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Buddha Nature, Emptiness, Evil, Mahayana, Posture, Freedom, Continuous...
Feb 23 1970
City Center

The Background of Shikantaza

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

Rules

Dogen, Posture, Balance, Doubt, Faith
Jan 18 1970
City Center

Infinite Wisdom: Emptiness in Practice

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

Settling in the Dharma Mind

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

Sesshin, Sixth Night Lecture

Serial: SR-00129

Tassajara
September, 1969

Sesshin, Don't Know Mind, Posture, Ceremony, Addiction, Duality, Beginners,...
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, Faith
Aug 30 1969
Tassajara

Some Questions

Question-and-Answer, Breath, Buddha Nature, Posture, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Aug 28 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

Awakening Through Mindful Practice

Observe, Meditation, causation, Evil, Posture, Community, Religion, Karma, Breath...
Jun 30 1969

Suzuki's 65th Birthday

Serial: SR-00018

Sunday Morning, May 18, 1969
Sokoji, San Francisco

Priest, Building, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Beginners, Instruction, Anger,...
May 18 1969
Sokoji

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, Monks, Don't Know Mind, Priest, Community, Posture, Hate...
Apr 19 1969

The Only Desire That Is Complete Is Buddha's Desire

Buddha Nature, Freedom, difficulty, Wisdom, War, Culture, Posture, Precepts, Priest...
Apr 08 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,...
Mar 15 1969
Sokoji

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

Shosan Ceremony

Shosan, First Principle, Emptiness, Compassion, Lotus Sutra, Patience, Emotions,...
Nov 11 1968
Tassajara

The Ten Powers Of A Bodhisattva

Serial: SF-05106

Sunday Morning, August 25, 1968
[This date is probably incorrect. Earlier (July 21, 1968), Suzuki mentioned that he had already explained the ten powers of a bodhisattva....

Bodhisattva, Dogen, Rinzai, Soto Zen, Emptiness, Five Ranks, Attachment, Posture,...
Aug 25 1968
Sokoji

To Have Complete Understanding of Our School

Serial: SF-05144B

SR024 Tass July 26/68 Roshi Sectarianism copied; July 21 Chino Sensei; July 24 Chino Sensei - also many handwritten notes on the content.

Since there was no talk by...

Anger, Politics, Liberation, Posture, Bell, Priest, confusion, Hate, Freedom, Doubt...
Jul 27 1968
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, Composure, Ceremony...
Jun 29 1968
Esalen

Become More Direct and Honest

Serial: SF-05276

Protection Master: re-recording from cassette marked "Suzuki Roshi talk with background music: no date, original copied" (Sony C60 side A); recorded: 7 1/2 ips, bias...

Posture, Instruction, Religion
1968
Unknown

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...

Instruction, Zazen, Posture, Beginners, Funeral, Religion, Instruction, Emotions,...
Sep 08 1967
Morning
Tassajara

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