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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

Without Any Idea of Attainment

Sandokai Lecture VIII
Wednesday, June 17, 1970
Tassajara

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

Line 21 Manako wa iro, mimi wa onjo,
Line 22...

Branching Streams, Sandokai
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

How To Understand Rituals And Precepts

Zazen, Rituals And Precepts Cannot Be Separated
Sunday Evening, July 26, 1970
San Francisco

Precepts, Ritual, Teacher-and-Student
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Open Your Intuition

Sesshin Meeting
Friday, July 31, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Observation of Precepts and Practice of Zazen is Same Thing

Sesshin Lecture No. 1
Saturday, August 1, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Precepts
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Walk like an Elephant and Sitting like a Frog

True Practice As Expression Of Buddha-Nature
Sesshin Lecture No. 2
Sunday, August 2, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Sengai
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Our Practice is Expression of Our True Buddha-mind

Sesshin Lecture, No. 4
Tuesday Evening, August 4, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Precepts, Beginner’s Mind
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Priest Ordination Ceremony: Paul Discoe and Reb Anderson

Reprocessed version may allow for clarification of transcript (some changes made by SDH, July 2025)

Priest, Ceremony
Suzuki Roshi City Center

When Someone Receives Transmission

Tuesday, August 25, 1970
San Francisco

Dharma Transmission, Richard Baker, Japan, Ceremony
Suzuki Roshi City Center

What Is Self? What Is Our Practice?

Japan, Kosho Uchiyama
Suzuki Roshi City Center

No Practice Will Destroy People

Dogen
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Shosan Ceremony

Shosan, First Principle
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

What Is Self?

Eiheiji, Kosho Uchiyama
Suzuki Roshi City Center

True Concentration

Right Concentration
Sunday, January 10, 1971
San Francisco

Avalokitesvara, Tatsugami, Shushogi
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-9

Audio Problem Set has been replaced by original recording, with speed adjustments made.
Newly processed version should be a little clearer to trancsribe

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Series 2, Talk 9Tassajara

Question and Answer

Question-and-Answer
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Blue Cliff Records Case 45

Friday, August 19, 1966
Sesshin Lecture: Friday Evening, Lecture D
Sokoji, San Francisco

Blue Cliff Record, Sesshin, Joshu, Eiheiji
Suzuki Roshi DSokoji

The first day of the sesshin is almost finished

Monday, August 15, 1966
Sesshin: Evening Lecture, Lecture D
Sokoji, San Francisco

Sesshin
Suzuki Roshi DSokoji

You Cannot Appreciate Our Teaching In Its True Sense

Monday, August 15, 1966
Sesshin: Lunch Lecture, Lecture B
Sokoji, San Francisco

Sesshin, Oryoki, Instruction
Suzuki Roshi BSokoji

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-5

Fall, 1968

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Series 2, Talk 5Tassajara

Lotus Sūtra No. I-5

February 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, First Principle
Suzuki Roshi Series 1, Talk 5Tassajara

Lotus Sūtra No. I-6

February 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, First Principle
Suzuki Roshi Series 1, Talk 6Tassajara

Shosan Ceremony

Shosan Ceremony, Sesshin, Feb 1968
Tassajara

This ceremony is re-edited from the original cassette, with non-SR (Bishop Sumi) sections removed, and the speed adjusted for clarity. The last...

Shosan, Sesshin, First Principle, Beginner’s Mind
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-6

Third Lotus Sutra Series
Thursday Evening, October 30, 1969
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Beginner’s Mind
Suzuki Roshi Series 3, Talk 6Tassajara

Lotus Sūtra No. I-1

Lotus Sutra No. 1
Tassajara
February 1968

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Series 2, Talk 1Tassajara

Lotus Sūtra No. I-2

February 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Series 1, Talk 2Tassajara

Lotus Sūtra No. I-4

February 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Series 1, Talk 4Tassajara

Lotus Sūtra No. I-3

February 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Series 1, Talk 3Tassajara

Ignorance

SR 014 - On this tape: lectures A and B and also first part of D. This is to be known as the A-B lecture tape or #1 ZMC (has been transcribed) Track 1 Roshi's lecture A 9/8/67 - copied

Prajna Paramita
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Wherever I Go, I Meet Myself

Tozan
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Not Always So

August Sesshin Lecture
Thursday, August 7, 1969
San Francisco

Sesshin, Dogen
Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

To Actually Practice Selflessness

August Sesshin Lecture
Wednesday, August 6, 1969
San Francisco

Sesshin
Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

Our Way To Attain Liberation

Tassajara

Story of the Sixth Patriarch. Practice with everyone else at the monastery, without self-centered ideas. Answering student questions.

Dan Gourley reel #4

Sixth Patriarch, Monastic Practice, Japan
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Some Questions

Question-and-Answer
Suzuki Roshi

Sesshin, Sixth Night Lecture

Tassajara
September, 1969

Sesshin
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Sesshin, Third Night Lecture

Tassajara
September, 1969

Sesshin
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Our Practice And Our Everyday Activity

Saturday, August 30, 1969

Newly uploaded recording should be clearer to transcribe

Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Some Questions

Question-and-Answer
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Twelve Links of Causation

Twelve Links Of Causation
Juni-innen (Jap.)
Dvada-aiga-pratatyasamutpada (San.)

English Japanese Sanskrit...

Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Some Questions

Roshi's Lectures - 2 of them - Aug 21 Side 2 Q&A session Q1 - explain 12 links of causation, Q - war - striving for a cause - even peace is necessary though futile (on cassette) - Dan Gourley #...

Question-and-Answer
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

We Practice Zazen So That We Attain Selflessness

Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Helping Others

Sesshin Lecture, No. 2, Saturday, May 2, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Dogen, Zuimonki
Suzuki Roshi City Center

On Breathing

Sesshin Lecture, No. 1, Saturday Evening, May 2, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin
Suzuki Roshi City Center

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