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Sōtō Zen or the Sōtō school (曹洞宗, Sōtō-shū) is the largest of the three traditional sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism (the others being Rinzai and Ōbaku). It is the Japanese line of the Chinese Cáodòng school, which was founded during the Tang dynasty by Dòngshān Liánjiè. It emphasizes Shikantaza, meditation with no objects, anchors, or content. The meditator strives to be aware of the stream of thoughts, allowing them to arise and pass away without interference.

The Japanese brand of the sect was imported in the 13th century by Dōgen Zenji, who studied Cáodòng Buddhism (Chinese: 曹洞宗; pinyin: Cáodòng Zōng) abroad in China. Dōgen is remembered today as the ancestor of Sōtō Zen in Japan along with Keizan Jōkin.

With about 14,000 temples, Sōtō is one of the largest Japanese Buddhist organizations. Sōtō Zen is now also popular in the West, and in 1996 priests of the Sōtō Zen tradition formed the Soto Zen Buddhist Association based in North America.

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Title	Speaker	Date
Master Hongzhi's Practice Instructions Serial: BZ-00153B Saturday Lecture Hongzhi, Practice, Birth-and-Death, Darkness and Light, Light-and-Darkness, Buddha...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 13 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
How to Draw Sound From the Bell Serial: BZ-00152A Sesshin Day 5 Bell, Bell, Precepts, Soto Zen, Chanting, Mindfulness, Practice Period, Doubt, Lay,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 23 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Transmission of the Light Class Serial: SF-01088 What brings us to these stories(?)? What is the unrest? What is the transmission of, how does the unrest be calmed (?), impermanence is that essential problem. Stories are what... Transmission, Separation, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness, Five Ranks, Soto Zen, Dragons...	Daigan Lueck	May 21 2002 Green Gulch
May 16th, 2002, Serial No. 01010, Side A Soto Zen, Composure, soto, Daily Life, Tassajara, Offering, Emotions, Rinzai,...		May 16 2002
Harmonizing Breath, Body, Mind and Feeling Serial: BZ-00142A Sesshin Day 3 Posture, Zazen, Ordinary Mind, Composure, Harmonizing, Attachment, Soto Zen, Nirvana...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 17 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
2002.03.09-serial.00171 Soto Zen, Posture, Rinzai, soto	Edward Brown	Mar 09 2002
2002.03.09-serial.00114A Monastic Practice, Soto Zen, soto, zen, Chanting, Greed, lecture, Sangha, Anger,...		Mar 09 2002
2002.02.24-serial.00088 Soto Zen, Heart Sutra, zen, soto, lecture, Culture		Feb 24 2002
2002.01.28-serial.00290 resistance, soto, Shikantaza, Bell, Soto Zen	Edward Brown	Jan 28 2002
November 18th, 2001, Serial No. 00095, Side A Precepts, resistance, Repentance, Soto Zen, Observe, Lay Ordination, Birth-and-Death...		Nov 18 2001
October 4th, 2001, Serial No. 00477 War, Bell, Priest, Tassajara, Precepts, Posture, Branching Streams, Soto Zen,...		Oct 04 2001
Dogen's Zazengi Serial: BZ-00086A Ego and Consciousness, Saturday Lecture Zazengi, Consciousness, Ego, Four Noble Truths, Discrimination, Ego, Concentration,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 18 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
August 18th, 2001, Serial No. 03921 Soto Zen, Suzuki Roshi, Subject-and-Object, Lineage, soto, Bowing, Silence, Duality,...	Teah Strozer	Aug 18 2001 City Center
2001.05.19-serial.00046 Posture, Daily Life, Don't Know Mind, Ego, Four Noble Truths, Silent...		May 19 2001
2001.01.03-serial.00066 soto, Five Ranks, Soto Zen, Emptiness, Nirvana, Renunciation, Oneness, Suzuki Roshi,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Jan 03 2001
Tenzo Kyokun Class Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Don't Know Mind, Mindfulness, realization, Mill...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 07 2000 Green Gulch
2000.11.04-serial.00051 soto, zen, Soto Zen, Lineage, true dharma, Intuition, Politics, Commitment, Interview...		Nov 04 2000
Sunday Lecture Big Mind, Six Realms, Ceremony, Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Buddha Ancestors, Soto...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Oct 29 2000 Green Gulch
Sunday Lecture Fox, causation, Karma, Nirvana, Soto Zen, Funeral, Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Ceremony,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Sep 10 2000 Green Gulch
Sunday Lecture Monastic Practice, Zazen, Religion, Commitment, Big Mind, Buddha Ancestors, Soto Zen...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Aug 20 2000 Green Gulch
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness Serial: BZ-00085B Unity in Diversity, Diversity in Unity, Saturday Lecture Sandokai, Branching Streams, Subject-and-Object, Diversity, Bell, Oneness, Precepts,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 19 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen's Shingi, Head Gardener Serial: BZ-00060B Saturday Lecture Shingi, Lay Practice, Cultivation, Soto Zen, Teacher-and-Student, Lay, Daily Life,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 05 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
2000.07.05-serial.00158 Emotions, Delusion, Soto Zen, Greed, Precepts	Edward Brown	Jul 05 2000
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness Serial: BZ-00159 Saturday Lecture Sandokai, Branching Streams, Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature, Oneness, Branching...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 27 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Women Ancestors Lineage, Transmission, Soto Zen, realization, Priest-and-Lay, Emptiness, Ceremony,...	Various	May 13 2000 1
Women Ancestors Lineage, Ordination, soto, Bodhisattva Vow, Soto Zen, Funeral, Obstacles, Gratitude,...	Various	May 13 2000 2
Fukanzazengi Class Serial: SF-03654 Monday Class Zazen, Instruction, Soto Zen, Posture, realization, Dragons, Lineage, Suzuki Roshi,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Mar 27 2000 Green Gulch
March 25th, 2000, Serial No. 00207, Side A Blue Cliff Record, Attachment, Four Noble Truths, soto, Soto Zen, Rinzai,...		Mar 25 2000
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness Serial: BZ-00205B Saturday Lecture Sandokai, Branching Streams, Precepts, Subject-and-Object, Buddha Nature, Observe,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 11 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Fukanzazengi Class Serial: SF-03517 Monday Class Hsin Hsin Ming, Buddha Nature, confusion, Platform Sutra, realization, Bodhisattva...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Feb 28 2000 Green Gulch
One-day Sitting Lecture realization, Buddha Ancestors, Demons, Practice Period, Heart Sutra, Bell, Suzuki...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Feb 26 2000 Green Gulch
Fukanzazengi Class Serial: SF-03661 Monday Class Ceremony, soto, true dharma, Instruction, Soto Zen, realization, Practice Period,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Feb 21 2000 Green Gulch
Sunday Lecture Ceremony, Instruction, Letting Go, Practice Period, Delusion, Zazen, Family Practice...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Feb 20 2000 Green Gulch
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness Serial: BZ-00198B Rohatsu Day 1 Sandokai, Branching Streams, Big Mind, soto, Observe, Discrimination, Branching...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 29 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
October 23rd, 1999, Serial No. 01114 realization, Blue Cliff Record, Faith, Soto Zen, Religion, Peace, Sangha, resistance...	Jeffrey Schneider	Oct 23 1999 Unknown
October 14th, 1999, Serial No. 00859 Five Ranks, Practice Period, Buddha Nature, Big Mind, Zazen Mind, Ego, Absolute-and-...		Oct 14 1999
Blue Cliff Record: Case #50 Serial: BZ-00195A Um-mon's “Particle after Particle Samadhi”, Saturday Lecture Ummon, Samadhi, BCR-50, Attachment, Samadhi, Emotions, Lotus Sutra, Blue Cliff Record...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 11 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Breathing (Thich Nhat Hanh) Serial: BZ-00194A Sesshin Day 2 Breath, Thich Nhat Hanh, Four Foundations, Peace, Concentration, Happiness,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 05 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Genjokoan Commentary (Pt. 4/8) Serial: BZ-00753B Sesshin Day 4 Genjokoan, Buddha Nature, Separation, Soto Zen, soto, Obstacles, Interview, Oneness,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 26 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Genjokoan Commentary (Pt. 2/8) Serial: BZ-00078B Sesshin Day 2 Genjokoan, Precious Mirror, Duality, Buddha Nature, Five Ranks, Absolute-and-Relative...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 24 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
AIDS Bike-A-Thon, A Rolling Sesshin Serial: SF-03983 Wednesday Lecture training, Daily Life, Soto Zen, soto, Suzuki Roshi, Non-duality, Duality, Gratitude,...	Teah Strozer	Jun 23 1999 City Center
1999.03.03-serial.00147 Serial: SF-00147 Wednesday night dharma talk Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Fundraising, Daily Life, Impermanence, Monastic...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Mar 03 1999 Green Gulch Farm
Shikantaza: "To Forget The Self" Serial: BZ-00190A Saturday Lecture Shikantaza, Birth-and-Death, Continuous, Soto Zen, Offering, Renunciation,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 16 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
1999.01.11-serial.00254 Avalokiteshvara, Soto Zen, Liberation, Letting Go, Ego	Edward Brown	Jan 11 1999
January 2nd, 1999, Serial No. 04060 Vows, Right Effort, Ceremony, Suzuki Roshi, Renunciation, Happiness, Emptiness, Soto...	Teah Strozer	Jan 02 1999 Unknown
Rohatsu Absolute-and-Relative, Intimacy, Duality, Commitment, Separation, Soto Zen, Emptiness...	Teah Strozer	Dec 04 1998 City Center
Rohatsu Manjushri, Attachment, Faith, Observe, Separation, Book of Serenity, Emotions, Doubt...	Teah Strozer	Dec 02 1998 City Center
October 29th, 1998, Serial No. 00840 Birth-and-Death, Impermanence, Continuous, Hate, Six Realms, Attachment, Soto Zen,...		Oct 29 1998
August 1st, 1998, Serial No. 00354, Side B Four Noble Truths, War, Mindfulness, American, Soto Zen, Gratitude, Bell, Culture,...		Aug 01 1998
July 25th, 1998, Serial No. 00354, Side A Big Mind, Lay, Soto Zen, Peace, Greed, confusion, Vows, Doubt, Karma, soto		Jul 25 1998

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