The Engage Wisdom Alpha Archive

Showing 13373 talks - Reset Search
Title Speaker Broken handler search_api_index_talks.field_wisdom_date

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
-----

File name: 69-12-05N: untitled level low. [Verbatim transcript not available. (Sound problem...

Ceremony, Shosan
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

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

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

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 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

Precepts as Original Nature

Precepts, Bodhidharma
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Sewing Sesshin

Sunday, June 20, 1971
Sesshin Lecture No. ____
San Francisco

Sesshin, Okesa, Dogen
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Manifested Three Treasures

Precepts
Suzuki Roshi City Center

One with Everything

Zazen Talk
Tuesday Evening, July 20, 1971
Tassajara

Non-duality
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Something Which You Cannot Understand

Buddha Nature
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Blue Cliff Records 61 - Fuketsu's One Particle Of Dust

Blue Cliff Record
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Ryaku Fusatsu Lecture

The audio of this tape has been improved, so the missing parts of the transcript may be worked out now.

Ceremony, Eiheiji, Bodhisattva Precepts
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

To Attain The Perfection Of Human Practice

Ceremony, First Principle
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

At the Time of Yakusan

New version of this lecture has been uploaded, which may allow for more of the transcript to be done.

Yaoshan
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Because Of Our Many Desires, We Do Not Have Freedom

Freedom, Desire, Changsha
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

On Bodhidharma's Day

Ceremony, Non-duality
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Good Confidence In Your Practice

Bodhidharma, First Principle
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Zen Is Actually, In Short, Maybe, Communication

Teacher-and-Student, Question-and-Answer
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Questions and Answers

Question-and-Answer, Yaoshan
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Obon Days

Ceremony, Big Mind, Nishiari Bokusan
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Why We Must Have Rules

First Principle, Big Mind
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Translation of Unknown Text

August 1971
San Francisco

Ceremony, Priest
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Talking To His Disciples About His Illness

Sunday, October 9, 1971
In His Room, City Center, San Francisco

Cancer, Teacher-and-Student
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Funeral Service for Suzuki Roshi

This is a full recording of Suzuki Roshi's funeral, held nine days after his death.

Ceremony, Funeral
Various City Center

Shikantaza, Tenryu's One Finger

Sesshin Lecture
Saturday, October 12, 1968
Sokoji, San Francisco

Sesshin, Gutei, Yaoshan
Suzuki Roshi ASokoji

We Try To Control Or Restrict Our Activity

Tuesday Evening, May 5, 1970
City Center, San Francisco

Suzuki Roshi City Center

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-14

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Series 2, Talk 14Tassajara

Sesshin Lecture: Genjo-Koan, Paragraphs 1–2

May Sesshin (25 26 added later) 1 or 6pm lecture plus lecture the following morning.
SR 009

Sesshin, Dogen, Genjokoan
Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

Nature of Our Practice

Tuesday, December 5, 1967, Lecture B
Evening Sesshin Lecture
Tassajara

Sesshin, Dogen, Fukanzazengi
Suzuki Roshi BTassajara

San-Pachi-Nenju

Ceremony, First Principle
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Genjo-Koan: Paragraphs 11-13

Sunday morning lecture by Suzuki Roshi
June 19 1966 (19 added later?)

Other notes on box:
Incomplete (muddled) late on then ends.
"Other side" another lecture? Same date...

Genjokoan, Dogen
Suzuki Roshi DSokoji

Ten Precepts

Sunday morning lecture by Suzuki Roshi
June 19 1966 (19 added later?)

Other notes on box:
Incomplete (muddled) late on then ends.
"Other side" another lecture? Same date...

Precepts
Suzuki Roshi CSokoji

Lay Ordination Ceremony

===== 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 ceremony that took place at City...

Precepts, Ceremony
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Genjo-Koan: Paragraphs 1–11

Sunday morning lecture by Suzuki Roshi
June 19 1966 (19 added later?)

Other notes on box:
Incomplete (muddled) late on then ends.
"Other side" another lecture? Same date...

Dogen, Genjokoan
Suzuki Roshi ASokoji

Pages