sitting Talks

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Title	Speaker	Date
Virtue of Mountain and River Dogen, Shobogenzo, First Principle, Soto Zen, Rinzai, Faith, Breath, sitting, Pain,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 24 1971 Tassajara
Something Which You Cannot Understand Buddha Nature, sitting, reality, Truth, Happiness, Breath, lecture	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 21 1971 Tassajara
Real Precepts Are Beyond Words Precepts, Precepts, reality, Observe, Freedom, sitting, Emptiness, Sangha, Duality,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 02 1971 City Center
The Teaching Just for You Serial: SR-00147 Sesshin Lecture No. 1 Saturday, June 5, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, Precepts, Dragons, Bodhidharma, Truth, sitting, Buddha Nature, Politics,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 05 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,...	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 02 1971 City Center
Resuming Big Mind Serial: SR-00272 Sesshin Lecture No. 1 Friday, February 5, 1971 San Francisco [”For this seven-day sesshin, there are only transcriptions for lectures given on Days 1, 3, 5,... Sesshin, Big Mind, Hate, stubbornness, Zoom, sitting, Zazen, Anger, Ceremony, heart,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 05 1971 City Center
What Is Self? Ceremony, Observe, sitting	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 03 1971 City Center
Japan Now: Zazen As Our Foundation Serial: SR-00072 Lecture after Trip to Japan: Sunday, December 13, 1970 Transmission, Culture, sitting, Meditation, Ceremony, American	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 13 1970
Ekō Lecture 1 Serial: SR-00225 The First Morning Eko Wednesday, July 8, 1970 Tassajara [This is the first in a series of six lectures by Suzuki on the four ekos chanted at the conclusion of... Eko, Dogen, Manjushri, Transmission, Chanting, Monks, Wisdom, Precepts, American,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 08 1970 Tassajara
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,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 06 1970 Tassajara
Within Light There Is Utter Darkness Serial: SR-00052 Sandokai Lecture IX Saturday, June 20, 1970 Tassajara [The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture: Line 27 Meichu ni atatte an... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Suffering, Truth, Diversity, sitting, Duality,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 20 1970 Tassajara
The Blue Jay Will Come Right into Your Heart Serial: SR-00053 Sandokai Lecture IV - Discussion of the lines: 'all the objects of the senses interact, and yet do not'. Subjective and objective, independent and interrelated aspects of... Branching Streams, Sandokai, Dependent Origination, lecture, Building, Truth, sitting...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 03 1970 Tassajara
How To Observe Precepts Serial: SR-00047 Sunday Morning, May 17, 1970 San Francisco Precepts, Precepts, Chanting, Observe, Bodhidharma, Zazen, Mahayana, Posture,...	Suzuki Roshi	May 17 1970 City Center
On Breathing Serial: SR-00139 Sesshin Lecture, No. 1, Saturday Evening, May 2, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Posture, Pain, sitting, Sangha, Enemies, Death	Suzuki Roshi	May 02 1970 City Center
Our Everyday Life Is Like A Movie Anger, Instruction, Meditation, Posture, Observe, sitting	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 15 1970 City Center
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,...	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 01 1970 Tassajara
The Background of Shikantaza Pain, Observe, Consciousness, Posture, sitting	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 22 1970 City Center
Our Effort In Our Practice Instruction, lecture, Observe, difficulty, sitting	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 31 1970 City Center
Fundamental Buddhist Point: To Adjust Ourselves To Our Surroundings Serial: SR-00192 Adjusting to life at City Center. Cleaning and zazen. Do we need furniture to practice? Dogen, Eiheiji, Zazen, Culture, Building, sitting	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 21 1969 City Center
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,...	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 01 1969 Tassajara
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-2 Serial: SR-00037 Third Lotus Sutra Series Thursday Evening, October 23, 1969 Zen Mountain Center [The recording starts with Suzuki reading from: Saddharma Pundarika or The... Lotus Sutra, First Principle, First Principle, Don't Know Mind, Consciousness,...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 23 1969 Series 3, Talk 2 Tassajara
Some Questions Question-and-Answer, Breath, Buddha Nature, Posture, sitting, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 28 1969 Tassajara
We Practice Zazen So That We Attain Selflessness Suffering, Wisdom, Dragons, Don't Know Mind, Meditation, Separation, sitting,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 03 1969 Tassajara
Blue Cliff Records-43 Serial: SR-00032 Tozan's hot and cold. Blue Cliff Record, Emptiness, Pain, Monks, difficulty, Forms, Hate, Commitment,...	Suzuki Roshi	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,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 01 1969 Tassajara
Zen Embodiment: Form and Emptiness Serial: SR-00021 Duplicate of talk from this date. Emptiness, Forms, Balance, reality, Continuous Practice, Wisdom, Death, sitting...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 29 1969
Direct Experience of Reality Baso, Dogen, lecture, Sutra, Forms, Pain, sitting	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 22 1969 Sokoji
Shosan Ceremony Shosan, First Principle, Emptiness, Compassion, Lotus Sutra, Patience, sitting,...	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 11 1968 Tassajara
Shikantaza, Tenryu's One Finger Serial: SR-00236 Sesshin Lecture Saturday, October 12, 1968 Sokoji, San Francisco Sesshin, Gutei, Yaoshan, Community, Pain, sitting, Monks, Obstacles, Instruction,...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 12 1968 A Sokoji
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-10 Serial: SR-00002 Fall 1968 Zen Mountain Center Lotus Sutra, sitting, Ceremony, Emptiness, Priest, Funeral, Composure, heart, Monks,...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 1968 Series 2, Talk 10 Tassajara
Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-15 Serial: SR-00006 Fall, 1968 Zen Mountain Center Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Conversation, Meditation, Demons, American, First...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 1968 Series 2, Talk 15 Tassajara
Lotus Sūtra No. I-6 Serial: SR-00106 February 1968 Zen Mountain Center Lotus Sutra, First Principle, First Principle, Truth, Karma, Monks, Sutra, Suffering...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 1968 Series 1, Talk 6 Tassajara
Lotus Sūtra No. I-4 Serial: SR-00113 February 1968 Zen Mountain Center Lotus Sutra, Monks, sitting, Addiction, Demons, Silence, Dragons, Meditation, Evil,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 1968 Series 1, Talk 4 Tassajara