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Title	Speaker	Date
Priest Ordination Ceremony: Paul Discoe and Reb Anderson Serial: SR-00069A Reprocessed version may allow for clarification of transcript. Priest, Ceremony, Precepts, Don't Know Mind, Delusion, Greed, Interview,...	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, Precepts, Buddha Mind, Discrimination, Sutra,...	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, Bodhisattva Precepts, Observe, Precepts, Faith...	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, Monks...	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, Faith, Ceremony, Ordination, Lay,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 01 1970 City Center
Open Your Intuition Serial: SF-05587B Sesshin Meeting Friday, July 31, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Intuition, Instruction, Beginners	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, Precepts, Gratitude, Priest, Ceremony, American, Silence, Intention, Evil...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 26 1970 City Center
Mudra Practice and How to Accept Instructions from Various Teachers Tatsugami, Yoshida, Beginners, Posture, Instruction, difficulty	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 26 1970 City Center
Japanese Way, American Way, Buddhist Way Dogen, American, Freedom, Culture, Doubt, Interview, Demons, Building, Pain	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 19 1970 City Center
Way of Zazen Serial: SF-00017 Lecture given in Japanese with translation Evil, Faith	Yoshida Roshi	Jun 07 1970 City Center
Money And Labor Serial: SR-00046 Sunday Morning, May 24, 1970 City Center, San Francisco Buddha Nature, Discrimination, Monks, Priest, Faith	Suzuki Roshi	May 24 1970 City Center
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
Zen Center and City Practice Serial: SR-00045 Sunday, May 10, 1970 City Center, San Francisco Building, Intention, Meditation, War, Observe, Death, difficulty	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 Culture, Posture, Evil, difficulty, Attachment, Pain, American, Freedom	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, American, Transmission, Buddha Nature, Hate, Realization, Offering, Building...	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, Building, 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, Posture, Pain, Sangha, Enemies, Death	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, Precepts, Monks, Intuition, Don't Know Mind, Posture, Buddha...	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, Zoom, Ceremony, Obstacles, Observe, Silence, Enemies, Evil, Precepts...	Various	Apr 25 1970 City Center
How To Have Sincere Practice Serial: SR-00145 Suzuki Roshi edited from longer recording. Building, Community, Meditation, Obstacles, Interview, Silence, Breath	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, Offering	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, Culture, Monastic Practice, Suffering, American, Don't Know...	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, Peace	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 28 1970 City Center
Our Everyday Life Is Like A Movie Anger, Instruction, Meditation, Posture, Observe	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 Emptiness, Doubt, Enemies	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 Don't Know Mind, Composure, Diversity, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center	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, difficulty, Duality, Karma, Anger, Mahayana, Emptiness, 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, Evil, Mahayana, Posture, Freedom, Continuous...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 23 1970 City Center
The Background of Shikantaza Pain, Observe, 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, Emptiness, Discrimination, Buddha Nature, Hate, Suffering, Pain, difficulty...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 01 1970 City Center
Our Effort In Our Practice Instruction, Observe, difficulty	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 31 1970 City Center
Caring for the Soil Serial: SR-00199 Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism Sunday, January 25, 1970 San Francisco Emptiness, Mahayana, Buddha Nature, difficulty, Greed, Gratitude, Hate	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 25 1970 City Center
Rules Dogen, Posture, Balance, Doubt, Faith	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 18 1970 City Center
Ordination Ceremony: Bill Kwong and Silas Hoadley Ceremony, Priest, Ceremony, American	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 11 1970 City Center
Respect for Things Serial: SR-00200 What Is Our Practice? Sunday, January 4, 1970 San Francisco Practice as taking care of everything. Not making a noise with the chairs. Practice with new... Bodhisattva Way, Big Mind, Building, Concentration, difficulty, Sutra, Bowing,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 04 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	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 21 1969 City Center
Pinch Hitter Serial: SR-00268B Tuesday, November 25, 1969 Evening Lecture City Center, San Francisco [Katagiri spoke before Suzuki. This portion has now been edited out] Wisdom, Truth, Zazen, Priest, American, Delusion, Meditation, Greed	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 25 1969 B City Center
Opening Lecture At Page Street Zendo: American Precepts Serial: SR-00264 Moving into the new space. Don't worry about success, practice in the present. Hyakujo's regulations, positive and negative sides of guidelines and precepts. Precepts, Shingi, Precepts, Monks, Gratitude, Building	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 22 1969 City Center
SFZC Service Serial: SF-00014 Early Seventies Enemies	Various	City Center
Mountain Seat Ceremony Serial: SF-03587 After intermission; at tape turn: Linda: Knock, knock - Darlene: Who's there? - Linda (quickly): Darlene. [laughter] Constancy, Ceremony, Suzuki Roshi, Lay Ordination, Priest-and-Lay, Ordination,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	City Center
Mountain Seat Ceremony Serial: SF-03500 Side A: to intermission; Side B: blank - to tape 2 Gratitude, Vow, Priest	Eijun Linda Cutts	City Center
Morning Service Serial: SF-00016 Mid-Seventies Emptiness, Suffering, Consciousness	Various	City Center
Radiant Transformation through Divine Service Love, Compassion, Time	Kosho McCall	City Center
Allen Ginsberg and Musicians Serial: SF-00105 Musical event. Attachment, Instruction, Obstacles, Offering, Vow, Anger, Religion	Allen Ginsberg	1 City Center
Allen Ginsberg and Musicians Serial: SF-00108 Musical event Samsara, Bell	Allen Ginsberg	2 City Center

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