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Title	Speaker	Date
Saturday Lecture Instruction, Lotus Sutra, Samsara, zen meditation, Posture, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana...	Hekizan Tom Girardot	Nov 21 1992 City Center
Fear Emptiness, Mindfulness, Right Speech, Don't Know Mind, Commitment, Anger,...	Ane Pema Chödrön	Aug 05 1991 City Center
Mindfulness Mindfulness, Four Foundations, Concentration, Bodhisattva Vow, Zazen, Impermanence,...	Pat Phelan	Jun 15 1991 City Center
Bowing: Practice of Non-duality Bowing, Big Mind, Non-duality, Buddha Nature, Buddha Mind, Offering, Teacher-and-...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 23 1989 City Center
Poetry Reading Funeral, Subject-and-Object, Silence, Bell, Lay, Fox, Enemies, Evil, Anger, Hate...	Robert Bly	Feb 01 1983 City Center
Poetry Reading Rumi, Discrimination, Silence, Conversation, Emotions, training	Robert Bly	Feb 01 1983 City Center
The Human Encounter with Death Death-and-Dying, training, Letting Go, Demons, Conversation, Emotions, Faith,...	Dr Joan Halifax	Oct 11 1981 1 and 2 of 3 City Center
The Human Encounter with Death Heart Sutra, Death-and-Dying, Chanting, Transmission, Subject-and-Object, Mindfulness...	Joan Halifax	Oct 11 1981 City Center
Mumonkan Case 36 Karma, Anger, Daily Life, Peace, Samadhi, realization	Robert Aitken Roshi	May 31 1981 City Center
The Self Ego, realization, Transmission, Sangha, Nirvana, Delusion, Zazen, Doubt, training...	Robert Aitken Roshi	May 17 1980 City Center
Pathway to Enlightenment Through Mahamudra Serial: SF-00021 Speaking on Mahamudra and translating old Mahamudra texts. realization, Concentration, Politics, Discrimination, Daily Life, Transmission,...	Sister Palmo	Apr 23 1974 City Center
Allen Ginsberg and Musicians Serial: SF-00105 Musical event. Attachment, Instruction, Obstacles, Offering, Vow, Anger, Religion	Allen Ginsberg	Feb 22 1972 1 City Center
Allen Ginsberg and Musicians Serial: SF-00107 Musical event Obstacles, Vow, Instruction, Greed, Chanting, Passions, Offering, Attachment, Karma...	Allen Ginsberg	Feb 22 1972 1 City Center
Allen Ginsberg and Musicians Serial: SF-00108 Musical event Samsara, Bell	Allen Ginsberg	Feb 22 1972 2 City Center
Allen Ginsberg and Musicians Serial: SF-00106 Musical event	Allen Ginsberg	Feb 22 1972 2 City Center
OLD - Funeral Service for Suzuki Roshi Ceremony, Funeral, Suzuki Roshi, Community, Culture, Ceremony, Zendo, Funeral,...		Dec 12 1971 1/2 City Center
Funeral Service for Suzuki Roshi Serial: SR-00171 This is a full recording of Suzuki Roshi's funeral, held nine days after his death. Ceremony, Funeral, Suzuki Roshi, Soto Zen, zen, Ceremony, Vow, Discrimination...	Various	Dec 12 1971 City Center
Talking To His Disciples About His Illness Serial: SR-00186 Sunday, October 9, 1971 In His Room, City Center, San Francisco Cancer, Teacher-and-Student, Monks	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 09 1971 City Center
Wherever You Are, We Have Zen Way Of Practice Dogen, Shobogenzo, Genjokoan, Suffering, Pain, Don't Know Mind, Happiness,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 21 1971 City Center
Translation of Unknown Text Serial: SR-00183 August 1971 San Francisco Ceremony, Priest, Hate, Passions, Attachment, Forms	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 1971 City Center
Why Then Is It Necessary To Accept Precepts Precepts, Precepts, Big Mind, Buddha Nature, training, Religion, Observe, Priest,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 17 1971 City Center
Manifested Three Treasures Precepts, Precepts, Emptiness, Priest, Anger, American, Sangha, lecture, Enemies,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 06 1971 City Center
Real Precepts Are Beyond Words Precepts, Precepts, reality, Observe, Freedom, sitting, Emptiness, Sangha, Duality,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 02 1971 City Center
Purely Involved Helping Others Serial: SF-00013B 00013A was recorded over a tape of Suzuki Roshi speaking, which was labeled as 00013B. This is an incomplete copy of the talk, which is also available in other copies... Discrimination, Freedom, Ego, Enemies, Peace	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 22 1971 City Center
Purely Involved Helping Others Nansen, things-as-it-is, Discrimination, Ummon, Bodhisattva Vow, Bodhisattva Vow,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 22 1971 City Center
Sewing Sesshin Serial: SR-00122 Sunday, June 20, 1971 Sesshin Lecture No. ____ San Francisco Sesshin, Okesa, Dogen, Attachment, New Year, Freedom, Bodhidharma, Lay, Concentration...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 20 1971 City Center
Sewing and Wearing the Buddhist Robes and How It Relates to Our Practice Serial: 71-06-19 Saturday, June 19, 1971 San Francisco Zendo Dogen, Soto Zen,	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 19 1971 City Center
Precepts as Original Nature Precepts, Bodhidharma, Precepts, Concentration, Building, Posture, New Year,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 12 1971 City Center
Freedom from Everything Serial: SR-00150 Sesshin Lecture, Day 5 Wednesday, June 9, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, Happiness, Demons, Precepts, Perfect Wisdom, Attachment, New Year, zen,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 09 1971 City Center
Calmness of Mind Serial: SR-00151 Sesshin Lecture No. 2 Sunday, June 7, 1971 San Francisco Practice is to expose yourself as you are, express yourself fully. Accepting your teacher's words.... Sesshin, Zazen, Breath, Community, Emptiness, Priest, Pain, Community, heart, Hate,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 07 1971 City Center
Okesa Ceremony Serial: SR-00146 Ceremony of the okesa: chanting the fascicle Shobogenzo Kesa Kudoku; ten virtues of the okesa. What is practice of zazen and practice of the okesa. Truth is beyond priest or... Priest, Ceremony, Okesa, Zazen, Dragons, Priest, Greed, Demons, Gratitude, Happiness...	Suzuki Roshi	Jun 06 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
Changing Our Karma Baso, Concentration, Karma, Suffering, difficulty, Ceremony	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 09 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
The Driver Anger, difficulty, Karma, Freedom, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Peace, confusion,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 27 1971 City Center
Calmness of your Mind Serial: SR-00079 Saturday Morning, February 13, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, Pain, New Year, Suffering, confusion, Oneness, Beginners, Community,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 13 1971 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, Sixth Patriarch, Emptiness	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 12 1971 B City Center
Just Enough Problems Serial: SR-00273 Sesshin Lecture, Lecture 7: Page Street Apples Friday Morning February 12, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, War, Enemies, Hate	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 12 1971 A City Center
Humor Is More Real Than Reallity Serial: SR-00274 Sesshin Lecture No. 5 Tuesday, February 9, 1971 San Francisco Sesshin, Discrimination, Dragons, Observe, Emotions, Instruction, confusion	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, zen, Discrimination, Precepts, reality, Freedom, Death...	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, 5,... Sesshin, Big Mind, Hate, stubbornness, Zoom, sitting, Zazen, Anger, Ceremony, heart,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 05 1971 City Center
Wherever I Go, I Meet Myself Liberation, Culture, Freedom	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 23 1971 City Center
The Boss of Everything Zazen, Big Mind, confusion, Precepts, Bodhidharma, Zazen, Suffering, Observe...	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 16 1971 City Center
True Concentration Serial: SR-00078 Right Concentration Sunday, January 10, 1971 San Francisco Avalokiteshvara, Freedom, Concentration, zen, Commitment, Posture	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 10 1971 City Center
What Is Self? Ceremony, Observe, sitting	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, Building, Precepts, Greed, Ego	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 20 1970 City Center
When Someone Receives Transmission Serial: SR-00071 Tuesday, August 25, 1970 San Francisco Transmission, Priest, Buddha Nature, Culture, Forms, American, Death, Truth	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, Commitment	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, Faith	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 16 1970 A City Center

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