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Tenshin Reb Anderson Tassajara

What Is Most Important For You In This Life

We are all creating the space together for people to have profound experience in zazen. Kind and unkind thoughts are opportunities to express the Buddha mind. Compassion towards wholesome and...

Compassion
Tenshin Reb Anderson PMNo Abode Hermitage

What Is Most Important For You In This Life

Being clear about our ultimate concern. Remember, aspire, commit to, and train to realise this. The story of Tong-an and Liangshan: what is the business under the patched robe? Intimacy. Another...

Eihei Koso Hotsuganmon, Buddha Mind, Intimacy, Book of Serenity
Tenshin Reb Anderson AMNo Abode Hermitage

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-8

Fall 1968

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Series 2, Talk 8Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-10

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Series 2, Talk 10Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-11

October 1968
New version uploaded, should help with transcript

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Series 2, Talk 11Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-12

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. 12
Shunryu Suzuki Lecture

October 1968

Lotus Sutra, First Principle
Suzuki Roshi Series 2, Talk 12Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-13

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Series 2, Talk 13Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-15

Fall, 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, First Principle
Suzuki Roshi Series 2, Talk 15Tassajara

Shariputra In The Lotus Sutra

Newly reprocessed recording should be a little clearer

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

Sun-Faced Buddha, Moon-Faced Buddha

Sunday, March 9, 1969
Sokoji, San Francisco

Koan story of sun-faced buddha, moon-faced buddha. Practicing while well or while sick. Accepting what we don't like. Understanding everyday...

Baso, Koan, Blue Cliff Record
Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

Nansen's “Everyday Mind Is Dao”

Suzuki Roshi

Find Out for Yourself

Find out what "buddha-nature" and "enlightenment" mean. Study without purpose. How his teacher in Japan treated him; trying to discover the right thing to do.

Sesshin, Zazen, Eiheiji
Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

Our Practice Should Be Based On The Idea Of Selflessness

Sunday Morning, March 16, 1969

Suzuki Roshi

Ordinary Mind, Buddha Mind

Suzuki Roshi

The Only Desire That Is Complete Is Buddha's Desire

Suzuki Roshi

Zen Is Not Something To Talk About, And Also It Is Something To Talk About

Shunryu Suzuki (with Ryogen Yoshimura)
Afternoon Sesshin Lecture
Sunday, April 19, 1969

Audio includes Yoshimura at beginning.

Sesshin
Suzuki Roshi

Jumping Off the 100-Foot Pole

Sunday Lecture
Sunday, April 20, 1969

Suzuki Roshi

How To Take Our Bodhisattva's Vow

Tuesday Morning, April 29, 1969
San Francisco

Dogen, Agama Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

How should we establish our system of practice in San Francisco

Tuesday Evening, June 17, 1969
San Francisco

Just sit, and follow the teacher's instruction. Story of four kinds of horse. Humans go to the moon, but don't understand themselves....

Rinzai, Soto Zen, Dogen, Zazen
Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

Direct Experience of Reality

Baso, Dogen
Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

Zen Embodiment: Form and Emptiness

Duplicate of talk from this date.

Suzuki Roshi

Yakusan did not give lectures for a long time

June 1969
Tassajara

Story of Yakusan saying he was not a teacher to give lectures. Making effort, and paying attention. What is right effort?

Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

It Is Rather Difficult For Us To Figure Out Why We Started To Practice Zazen

Tuesday, July 1, 1969
Tassajara

Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Practice Should Be The Practice Of “Right Now.”

Thursday, July 3, 1969
Tassajara

Heart Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Question And Answer Session

Tuesday, July 8, 1969
San Francisco

Question-and-Answer
Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

FORM AND EMPTINESS II

Wednesday, July 9, 1969
Tassajara

Heart Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Eulogy For Trudy Dixon Given During Her Funeral Ceremony

Words from the funeral eulogy for Trudy Dixon. Magnanimous mind

Tassajara, Dogen, Buddha Mind
Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

I have nothing in my mind

Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

Enjoy Your Life

Talk on the moon landing

Suzuki Roshi

Blue Cliff Records-43

Tozan's hot and cold.

Blue Cliff Record
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen

July 1969
San Francisco

Morning.

Dogen
Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

That is the purpose of counting

Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

The Most Important Precept

Precepts, Dogen, Eiheiji
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-2

Third Lotus Sutra Series
Thursday Evening, October 23, 1969
Zen Mountain Center

[The recording starts with Suzuki reading from: Saddharma Pundarika or The Lotus of the True Law,...

Lotus Sutra, First Principle
Suzuki Roshi Series 3, Talk 2Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-4

[Third Lotus Sutra Series]
Saturday Evening, October 25, 1969
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, First Principle
Suzuki Roshi Series 3, Talk 4Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-5

Third Lotus Sutra Series
Tuesday Evening, October 28, 1969
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Series 3, Talk 5Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-7

Third Lotus Sutra Series
Friday Evening, November 7, 1969
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Series 3, Talk 7Tassajara

Sincere Practice and Way-Seeking Mind

Sesshin Lecture No. 3, Sunday, May 3, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Zen Center and City Practice

Sunday, May 10, 1970
City Center, San Francisco

Suzuki Roshi City Center

Money And Labor

Sunday Morning, May 24, 1970
City Center, San Francisco

Suzuki Roshi City Center

How To Observe Precepts

Sunday Morning, May 17, 1970
San Francisco

Precepts
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Things-As-It-Is

Sandokai Lecture I
Wednesday, May 27, 1970
Tassajara

[This is the first in a series of lectures on the Sandokai (Chin. Cantong qi or Tisan-tiung-chii), a poem by Sekito Kisen....

Branching Streams, Sandokai
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Warm Hand to Warm Hand

Sandokai Lecture II
Sunday, May 30, 1970
Tassajara

[The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture:

Line 2 tozai mitsuni aifusu.
Line 3 Ninkon ni...

Branching Streams, Sandokai
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Buddha Is Always Here

Sandokai Lecture III
Monday, June 1, 1970
Tassajara

[The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture:

Line 5 Reigen myoni kokettari.
Line 6 Shiha an ni...

Branching Streams, Sandokai
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Within Light There Is Utter Darkness

Sandokai Lecture IX
Saturday, June 20, 1970
Tassajara

[The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture:

Line 27 Meichu ni atatte an ari,
Line 28 anso...

Branching Streams, Sandokai
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

The Blue Jay Will Come Right into Your Heart

Sandokai Lecture IV - Discussion of the lines: 'all the objects of the senses interact, and yet do not'. Subjective and objective, independent and interrelated aspects of reality. Interdependency; 'ri...

Branching Streams, Sandokai, Dependent Origination
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

We Are Just a Tiny Speck of Big Being

Sandokai Lecture V: Lecture to Professor Weller's Visiting Class
Saturday, June 6, 1970
Tassajara

[Note. This lecture was given-- as a general introduction-- to Prof. Jack Weller's...

Branching Streams, Sandokai
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Today We May Be Very Happy

Sandokai Lecture VI
Wednesday, June 10, 1970
Tassajara

[This lecture is concerned with the following lines of the Sandokai:

Shiki moto shitsuzo wo kotonishi,
sho moto...

Branching Streams, Sandokai
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

The Boat Is Always Moving

Sandokai Lecture VII
Saturday, June 13, 1970
Tassajara

[The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture:

Line 17 Shidai no sho onozukara fukusu,
Line...

Branching Streams, Sandokai
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

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