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Title	Speaker	Date
Calmness of your Mind Serial: SR-00079 Saturday Morning, February 13, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, Community, New Year, Suffering	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 13 1971 City Center
Just Enough Problems Serial: SR-00273 Sesshin Lecture, Lecture 7: Page Street Apples Friday Morning February 12, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, War, Hate	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 12 1971 A City Center
Not Sticking to Enlightenment Serial: SF-05445B ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #26, by Shundo David Haye ===== It's not completely clear how this talk dropped off the radar, as the tape had been copied and... Sesshin, Hui-neng, Emptiness	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 12 1971 B City Center
Humor Is More Real Than Reallity Serial: SR-00274 Sesshin Lecture No. 5 Tuesday, February 9, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, Eiheiji, Dogen, Dragons, Emotions	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 09 1971 City Center
Wherever You Go, You Will See Yourself Serial: SR-00271 Sesshin Lecture No. 3 Sunday Afternoon or Evening February 7, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, Tozan, Sandokai, Death, Precepts	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 07 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... Sesshin, Big Mind, Zuimonki, Hate, Zoom, Zazen, Ceremony	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 05 1971 City Center
Wherever I Go, I Meet Myself Tozan, Liberation	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 23 1971 City Center
The Boss of Everything Zazen, Big Mind, Precepts, Bodhidharma, Zazen, Suffering	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 16 1971 City Center
True Concentration Serial: SR-00078 Right Concentration Sunday, January 10, 1971 San Francisco Avalokitesvara, Tatsugami, Shushogi, Concentration, Posture	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 10 1971 City Center
What Is Self? Eiheiji, Kosho Uchiyama, Ceremony	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 03 1971 City Center
No Practice Will Destroy People Dogen, Dogen	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 27 1970 City Center
What Is Self? What Is Our Practice? Japan, Kosho Uchiyama, Precepts, Ego	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 20 1970 City Center
When Someone Receives Transmission Serial: SR-00071 Tuesday, August 25, 1970 San Francisco Dharma Transmission, Richard Baker, Japan, Ceremony, Buddha Nature, Death, Forms,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 25 1970 City Center
Lay Ordination Ceremony Serial: SR-00069B ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #25, by Shundo David Haye ===== This tape, which is unfortunately very poorly recorded, gives us a sense of the lay ordination... Precepts, Ceremony,	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 23 1970 City Center
Restore the Buddhist Teaching in its Original Way Serial: SF-06121A Sunday Evening, August 16, 1970 San Francisco Lecture A [The first part of the lecture was not recorded.] Sesshin,	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 16 1970 A City Center
To Be Honest And Sincere In Its True Sense It Is Necessary to Push Yourself Into Some Very Strong Hard Rule Serial: SF-06121B Sunday, August 16, 1970 San Francisco [This is the second of two lectures with this date. This lecture began mid-way on Side A of the original tape after a prior... Enlightenment, Oryoki	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 16 1970 B City Center
Priest Ordination Ceremony: Paul Discoe and Reb Anderson Serial: SR-00069A Reprocessed version may allow for clarification of transcript (some changes made by SDH, July 2025) Priest, Ceremony, Precepts, Don't Know Mind, Delusion, Interview, Gratitude,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 09 1970 City Center
Our Practice is Expression of Our True Buddha-mind Serial: SR-00067 Sesshin Lecture, No. 4 Tuesday Evening, August 4, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Precepts, Beginner’s Mind, Buddha Mind, Duality, Mahayana, Precepts,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 04 1970 City Center
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, Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Diversity,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 03 1970 City Center
Walk like an Elephant and Sitting like a Frog Serial: SR-00066 True Practice As Expression Of Buddha-Nature Sesshin Lecture No. 2 Sunday, August 2, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Sengai, Buddha Nature, Family Practice, War, Bodhidharma, Zazen	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 02 1970 City Center
Observation of Precepts and Practice of Zazen is Same Thing Serial: SF-06049 Sesshin Lecture No. 1 Saturday, August 1, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Precepts, Precepts, Doubt, Buddha Nature, Ceremony, Ordination, Lay Practice...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 01 1970 City Center
Open Your Intuition Serial: SF-05587B Sesshin Meeting Friday, July 31, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin,	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 31 1970 City Center
How To Understand Rituals And Precepts Serial: SR-00063 Zazen, Rituals And Precepts Cannot Be Separated Sunday Evening, July 26, 1970 San Francisco Precepts, Ritual, Teacher-and-Student, Ceremony, Gratitude, Precepts, Priest...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 26 1970 City Center
Mudra Practice and How to Accept Instructions from Various Teachers Tatsugami, Yoshida, Keizan, Dogen, Posture	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 26 1970 City Center
Japanese Way, American Way, Buddhist Way Dogen, Genjokoan, Japan, Demons, Doubt, Interview	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 19 1970 City Center
Way of Zazen Serial: SF-00017 Lecture given in Japanese with translation	Yoshida Roshi	Jun 07 1970 City Center
Money And Labor Serial: SR-00046 Sunday Morning, May 24, 1970 City Center, San Francisco Buddha Nature, Priest	Suzuki Roshi	May 24 1970 City Center
How To Observe Precepts Serial: SR-00047 Sunday Morning, May 17, 1970 San Francisco Precepts, Bodhidharma, Chanting, Mahayana, Posture, Precepts, Zazen	Suzuki Roshi	May 17 1970 City Center
Zen Center and City Practice Serial: SR-00045 Sunday, May 10, 1970 City Center, San Francisco War, Death	Suzuki Roshi	May 10 1970 City Center
We Try To Control Or Restrict Our Activity Serial: SR-00044 Tuesday Evening, May 5, 1970 City Center, San Francisco Posture	Suzuki Roshi	May 05 1970 City Center
Sincere Practice and Way-Seeking Mind Serial: SR-00043 Sesshin Lecture No. 3, Sunday, May 3, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Buddha Nature, Hate, Realization, Transmission	Suzuki Roshi	May 03 1970 City Center
Helping Others Serial: SR-00138 Sesshin Lecture, No. 2, Saturday, May 2, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Dogen, Zuimonki, Doubt	Suzuki Roshi	May 02 1970 City Center
On Breathing Serial: SR-00139 Sesshin Lecture, No. 1, Saturday Evening, May 2, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Death, Posture, Sangha	Suzuki Roshi	May 02 1970 City Center
Sincere Practice Serial: SR-00140 How To Have Sincere Practice Tuesday, April 28, 1970 San Francisco Tatsugami, Dogen, Buddha Nature, Don't Know Mind, Posture, Precepts,...	Suzuki Roshi	Apr 28 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 Gratitude, Precepts, Ceremony, Zoom, Obstacles	Various	Apr 25 1970 City Center
How To Have Sincere Practice Serial: SR-00145 Suzuki Roshi edited from longer recording. Community, Interview, Obstacles	Suzuki Roshi	Apr 25 1970 A City Center
Remarks at the Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind Temple Serial: SF-05996 These are Suzuki Roshi's words, edited together out of longer recording of ceremony. Ceremony,	Suzuki Roshi	Apr 25 1970 City Center
Buddha's Birthday Lecture Ceremony, Ceremony	Suzuki Roshi	Apr 12 1970 City Center
The Zen of Going to the Rest Room Ummon, Tangaryo, Big Mind, Don't Know Mind, Monastic Practice, Suffering...	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 29 1970 City Center
Way-Seeking Mind Serial: SF-05361 Saturday Lecture Of March Sesshin Saturday, March 28, 1970 San Francisco Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin, Monastic Practice	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 28 1970 City Center
Our Everyday Life Is Like A Movie Posture	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 15 1970 City Center
Letters From Emptiness Serial: SR-00156 How to Understand the Idea of Emptiness Sunday, March 8, 1970 San Francisco Doubt, Emptiness	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 08 1970 City Center
Practice To Be Like A Stone Serial: SF-06125 SR-70-02-28 Sesshin lecture #6 (last lecture) - followed by service #2 for Trudy Dixon NB - is 1970 despite the year added to the photos Composure, Diversity, Don't Know Mind, Tassajara	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 28 1970 City Center
Non-Dualistic Practice Serial: SR-00260 Sesshin Lecture No. 3: Wednesday, February 25, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Big Mind, Duality, Emptiness, Karma, Mahayana, Suffering	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 25 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, Mahayana, Posture, Continuous Practice, Ceremony,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 23 1970 City Center
The Background of Shikantaza Consciousness, Posture	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 22 1970 City Center
Brown Rice is Just Right Serial: SR-00247 Morning Sesshin Lecture Sunday, February 1, 1970 City Center Sesshin, Buddha Nature, Emptiness, Hate, Suffering	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 01 1970 City Center
Our Effort In Our Practice	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 31 1970 City Center
Caring for the Soil Serial: SR-00199 Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism Sunday, January 25, 1970 San Francisco Buddha Nature, Emptiness, Gratitude, Hate, Mahayana	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 25 1970 City Center
Rules Dogen, Posture, Doubt	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 18 1970 City Center

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