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Sincere Practice

How To Have Sincere Practice
Tuesday, April 28, 1970
San Francisco

Tatsugami, Dogen
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-4

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi CTassajara

Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind Temple

This is the bulk of the ceremony, with speakers other than Suzuki Roshi, in Japanese and English

Various City Center

The Zen of Going to the Rest Room

Ummon, Tangaryo
Suzuki Roshi City Center

How To Have Sincere Practice

Suzuki Roshi edited from longer recording.

Suzuki Roshi ACity Center

Way-Seeking Mind

Saturday Lecture Of March Sesshin
Saturday, March 28, 1970
San Francisco

Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Our Everyday Life Is Like A Movie

Suzuki Roshi City Center

Letters From Emptiness

How to Understand the Idea of Emptiness
Sunday, March 8, 1970
San Francisco

Suzuki Roshi City Center

Why I Came to America

"Why I became a priest"

Memories of his father as a temple priest. Wanting to be an unusual priest himself, to teach people. Training at a temple with Oka Sotan. Enjoying teaching...

Priest, Meiji, Japan, Dogen
Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

The First Teaching

Teaching of impermanence, everything changing; also there is selflessness, suffering and nirvana. The sufferings of birth, death, sickness and old age. Causes of suffering, because of ego.

Suffering, Ego, Impermanence, Birth-and-Death
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Remarks at the Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind Temple

These are Suzuki Roshi's words, edited together out of longer recording of ceremony.

Ceremony
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Buddha's Birthday Lecture

Ceremony
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Speciality and Equality.

First Principle, Freedom, Baizhang
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Wind Stops, But Still Flower Falls

This audio has been improved, so more of the students' questions may be discernible.

Ummon
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Supported from Within

Ekō Lecture 4
The Second Morning Eko, Part 3 of 3
Sunday, July 12, 1970
Tassajara

[This is the fourth in a series of six lectures by Suzuki on the four ekos chanted at the...

Eko, Chanting
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Fundamental Buddhist Point: To Adjust Ourselves To Our Surroundings

Adjusting to life at City Center. Cleaning and zazen. Do we need furniture to practice?

Dogen, Eiheiji, Zazen
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Shosan Ceremony

Friday, December 5, 1969

Previously described as intranscribable - now clearer
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Ceremony, Shosan
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Way-Seeking Mind, Part III

Winter Sesshin, Day 3, Lecture No. 3
Monday, December 1, 1969
Tassajara

Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Rules

Dogen
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Ordination Ceremony: Bill Kwong and Silas Hoadley

Ceremony, Priest
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Caring for the Soil

Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism
Sunday, January 25, 1970
San Francisco

Suzuki Roshi City Center

Respect for Things

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 people coming to City Center...

Bodhisattva Way
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 6

Sesshin
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 5

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 5
Wednesday, December 3, 1969
Tassajara

Sesshin, Bodhisattva, Dogen, Shobogenzo
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Practice Should Not Be Perfect, So Descendants Have Something To Do

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 4
Tuesday, December 2, 1969

Sesshin, Dogen
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

The Boss of Everything

Zazen, Big Mind, Precepts
Suzuki Roshi City Center

New Students' Questions

Tuesday, October 14, 1969
San Francisco

Question-and-Answer
Suzuki Roshi

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-1

[Third Lotus Sutra Series]1
Monday Evening, October 20, 1969
Zen Mountain Center

Introduction to third series of talks on the Lotus Sutra. Zen as practical teaching. Suzuki Roshi's...

Lotus Sutra, Mahayana, Dogen
Suzuki Roshi Series 3, Talk 1Tassajara

Shosan Ceremony

Tassajara
September, 1969

[Beginning of ceremony not recorded.]

Sesshin, Shosan
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Real Precepts Are Beyond Words

Precepts
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Why Then Is It Necessary To Accept Precepts

Precepts
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Suffering Is A Valuable Thing

Sandokai Lecture XI
Saturday, June 27, 1970
Tassajara

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

Line 33 Bammotsu onozukara ko ari,
Line 34...

Branching Streams, Sandokai
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

The Willow Tree Cannot Be Broken

SANDOKAI LECTURE X
Thursday, June 25, 1970
Tassajara

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

Meian ono-ono aitaishite,
hisuru ni zengo no...

Branching Streams, Sandokai
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Do Not Pass Your Days and Nights in Vain

Sandokai Lecture XIII: “Don't Spend Your Time in Vain”
Monday, July 6, 1970
Tassajara

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

Ayumi wo susumure ba...

Branching Streams, Sandokai, Sixth Patriarch, Dogen
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

We Should Not Stick to Words or Rules Too Much

Sandokai Lecture XII: “It Is Not Always So”
Saturday, July 4, 1970
Tassajara

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

Koto wo uke te wa subekaraku...

Branching Streams, Sandokai
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Ekō Lecture 1

The First Morning Eko
Wednesday, July 8, 1970
Tassajara

[This is the first in a series of six lectures by Suzuki on the four ekos chanted at the conclusion of morning services at San...

Eko, Dogen, Manjushri, Transmission, Chanting
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Ekō Lecture 3

The Second Morning Eko, Part 2 of 3
Friday Evening, July 11, 1970
Tassajara

[This is the third in a series of six lectures by Suzuki on the four ekos chanted at the conclusion of...

Eko, Chanting
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Ekō Lecture 2

The Second Morning Eko, Part 1 of 3
Friday Evening, July 10, 1970
Tassajara

[This is the second in a series of six lectures by Suzuki on the four ekos chanted at the conclusion of...

Eko, Chanting
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Ekō Lecture 6

The Fourth Morning Eko
Wednesday, July 15, 1970
Tassajara

[This is the last in a series of six lectures by Suzuki on the four ekos chanted at the conclusion of morning services at San...

Eko, Chanting
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Ekō Lecture 5

The Third Morning Eko
Monday, July 13, 1970
Tassajara

[This is the fifth in a series of six lectures by Suzuki on the four ekos chanted at the conclusion of morning services at San...

Eko, Chanting, Buddha Ancestors
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Good and Bad Feeling

Tuesday, December 5, 1967
Afternoon Sesshin Lecture, Lecture A
Tassajara

Sesshin
Suzuki Roshi ATassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-2

Monday Morning, October 21, 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Series 2, Talk 2Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-1

[Second Lotus Sutra series in 1968]
Sunday Evening, October 20, 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Putting Power In Your Hara

Afternoon Sesshin Lecture
Friday, December 1, 1967, Lecture A
Zen Mountain Center

Sesshin, Dogen, Fukanzazengi
Suzuki Roshi ATassajara

The Ten Powers Of A Bodhisattva

Sunday Morning, August 25, 1968
[This date is probably incorrect. Earlier (July 21, 1968), Suzuki mentioned that he had already explained the ten powers of a bodhisattva. So this lecture was...

Bodhisattva, Dogen, Rinzai, Soto Zen
Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

Shōbōgenzō

Thursday, August 18, 1966
SESSHIN LECTURE: Thursday, 1:00 pm, Lecture B
Sokoji, San Francisco

Sesshin
Suzuki Roshi BSokoji

This Sesshin Was Wonderfully Done

Saturday, April 22, 1967
Sesshin Lecture B
San Francisco

Sesshin
Suzuki Roshi BSokoji

You Must Give Up Worldly Desires

Saturday, April 22, 1967
Sesshin Lecture A
San Francisco

Sesshin
Suzuki Roshi ASokoji

Miss Ransom Was A Teacher Of Conversation

[Not an interview I think, but a question Peter asks at the beginning of the lecture, possibly pre-arranged with Suzuki. Got labeled as an interview because I had it grouped with Peter’s interviews...

Japan, Komazawa University, Buddhism, Shobogenzo, Obon
Suzuki Roshi

Form Is Emptiness and Emptiness Is Form

Heart Sutra
Suzuki Roshi

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