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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
October 18th, 2003, Serial No. 01362 Posture, Bell, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Ego, Soto Zen, Instruction, Equanimity...		Oct 18 2003
Religion: A Necessary Evil Serial: BZ-01355 Sesshin Day 3 Religion, Evil, Religion, Fox, Doubt, Buddha Nature, Evil, Intuition, Soto Zen, Lotus...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 01 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
June 22nd, 2003, Serial No. 01347 Ego, Separation, Heart Sutra, Emotions, Attachment, Soto Zen, Passions, uchiyama,...		Jun 22 2003
June 7th, 2003, Serial No. 01107 Faith, Vow, Bodhisattva Vow, Suzuki Roshi, Patience, Forgiveness, Practice Period,...	Jeffrey Schneider	Jun 07 2003 Unknown
May 24th, 2003, Serial No. 00136, Side B Practice Period, Hate, Book of Serenity, Soto Zen, Vow, Culture, Mindfulness,...		May 24 2003
April 24th, 2003, Serial No. 00296 Book of Serenity, Silent Illumination, Posture, Practice Period, Rinzai, Dragons,...		Apr 24 2003
2003.02.15-serial.00169 Dharma Transmission, Bodhidharma, Continuous Practice, Instruction, Compassion,...		Feb 15 2003
January 11th, 2003, Serial No. 04074 Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Suzuki Roshi, Priest, Bodhisattva Vow, Soto Zen,...	Lew Richmond	Jan 11 2003 City Center
January 4th, 2003, Serial No. 00177, Side B New Year, Priest, War, Lineage, Zoom, Soto Zen, Lotus Sutra, Aspects of Practice,...		Jan 04 2003
Sogen Shaku Scroll and Zen and War Serial: BZ-00176 Rohatsu Day 6 War, War, Emotions, Priest, Soto Zen, Rinzai, Religion, American, Ego, Bodhidharma...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 07 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Trip to Japan Serial: BZ-00210B Saturday Lecture Japan, Bell, resistance, Soto Zen, American, Heart Sutra, Chanting, Practice Period,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 28 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Posture Posture, Instruction, Branching Streams, Zendo, Zazen, Soto Zen, Birth-and-Death,...	Lew Richmond	Sep 14 2002 Unknown
Vasubandhu Serial: SF-04017 Summer intensive Demons, Subject-and-Object, Letting Go, Separation, Emptiness, Soto Zen, Happiness,...	Teah Strozer	Jul 31 2002 City Center
Vasubandhu Serial: SF-03954 Summer intensive Separation, Emotions, Six Realms, Hate, Soto Zen, Instruction, Karma, Duality, Daily...	Teah Strozer	Jul 21 2002 City Center
July 20th, 2002, Serial No. 00154, Side B Dragons, Big Mind, Hate, American, Instruction, Soto Zen, War, Enemies, Tassajara Zen...		Jul 20 2002
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, Daily Life, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Offering, Emotions,...		May 16 2002
April 14th, 2002, Serial No. 00145, Side A Death-and-Dying, true dharma, Liberation, Vow, Anger, Hate, Rinzai, Enemies, Soto Zen...		Apr 14 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.00114A Monastic Practice, Soto Zen, zen, Chanting, Greed, lecture, Sangha, Anger,...		Mar 09 2002
2002.03.09-serial.00171 Soto Zen, Posture, Rinzai	Edward Brown	Mar 09 2002
2002.02.24-serial.00088 Soto Zen, Heart Sutra, zen, lecture, Culture		Feb 24 2002
February 9th, 2002, Serial No. 00062, Side B uchiyama, Peace, Blue Cliff Record, Zazen Mind, Book of Serenity, Soto Zen, Dragons,...		Feb 09 2002
2002.01.28-serial.00290 resistance, Soto Zen, Shikantaza, Bell	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
Dogen and Plum Blossoms Serial: BZ-00094A Saturday Lecture Dogen, Buddha Nature, Big Mind, Dragons, Priest-and-Lay, Buddha Ancestors,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 03 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
October 4th, 2001, Serial No. 00477 War, Bell, Priest, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Precepts, Posture, Branching...		Oct 04 2001
August 18th, 2001, Serial No. 03921 Soto Zen, Suzuki Roshi, Subject-and-Object, Lineage, Bowing, Silence, Duality, Birth-...	Teah Strozer	Aug 18 2001 City Center
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
2001.05.19-serial.00046 Posture, Daily Life, Don't Know Mind, Ego, Four Noble Truths, Silent...		May 19 2001
2001.02.04-serial.00049 Precepts, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, confusion, Dependent Origination, Subject-...		Feb 04 2001
2001.01.03-serial.00066 Soto Zen, Five Ranks, Emptiness, Nirvana, Renunciation, Oneness, Suzuki Roshi,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Jan 03 2001
November 25th, 2000, Serial No. 00124, Side A Practice Period, Giving-and-Taking, Four Noble Truths, Liberation, Soto Zen, Building...		Nov 25 2000
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, zen, Lineage, true dharma, Intuition, Politics, Commitment, Interview,...		Nov 04 2000
Genjo Koan Serial: SF-00117 Workshop Karma, Five Ranks, Soto Zen, Dharma Transmission, true dharma, Transmission, Politics...	Shohaku Okumura	Nov 04 2000 1 of 4 City Center
Sunday Lecture Big Mind, Six Realms, Ceremony, Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Buddha Ancestors, Soto...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Oct 29 2000 Green Gulch
Tenzo Kyokun Class true dharma, Practice Period, Instruction, Soto Zen, Zendo, Suzuki Roshi, Big Mind,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Oct 24 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
August 12th, 2000, Serial No. 00081, Side A Instruction, Beginners, Commitment, War, Rinzai, Heart Sutra, Posture, Bodhidharma,...		Aug 12 2000
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
July 20th, 2000, Serial No. 00852 Silent Illumination, Lineage, Interview, Soto Zen, Attachment, Chanting, Obstacles,...		Jul 20 2000
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
May 20th, 2000, Serial No. 00162, Side B Rinzai, Concentration, Heart Sutra, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Buddha Nature,...		May 20 2000
Women Ancestors Lineage, Transmission, Soto Zen, realization, Priest-and-Lay, Emptiness, Ceremony,...	Various	May 13 2000 1

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