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Why I Came to America

Serial: SR-00157

"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...

Priest, Meiji, Japan, Dogen, Priest, training, New Year, Ceremony, Enemies, Monks,...
Sep 16 1969
Sokoji

Not Always So

Serial: SR-00124

August Sesshin Lecture
Thursday, August 7, 1969
San Francisco

Sesshin, Dogen, Interdependence, Freedom, Gratitude, Composure, Posture, Emptiness,...
Aug 07 1969
Sokoji

To Actually Practice Selflessness

Serial: SR-00125

August Sesshin Lecture
Wednesday, August 6, 1969
San Francisco

Sesshin, Pain, Fox, Precepts, Freedom, Funeral, Monks, Liberation, difficulty,...
Aug 06 1969
Sokoji

I have nothing in my mind

Emptiness, Forms, Zazen, Buddha Nature, Freedom, Passions, Interview, Beginners,...
Jul 15 1969
Sokoji

Eulogy For Trudy Dixon Given During Her Funeral Ceremony

Serial: SR-00028

Words from the funeral eulogy for Trudy Dixon. Magnanimous mind

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Dogen, Buddha Mind, Buddha Mind, Passions, Compassion...
Jul 11 1969
Sokoji

Question And Answer Session

Serial: SR-00025

Tuesday, July 8, 1969
San Francisco

Question-and-Answer, Don't Know Mind, Anger, Greed, Emotions, Zazen, Culture,...
Jul 08 1969
Sokoji

Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen

Serial: SR-00033

July 1969
San Francisco

Morning.

Dogen, Buddha Nature, Evil, Freedom, Priest, Ego, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Jul 1969
Sokoji

Direct Experience of Reality

Baso, Dogen, lecture, Sutra, Forms, Pain, sitting
Jun 22 1969
Sokoji

How should we establish our system of practice in San Francisco

Serial: SR-00019

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...

Rinzai, Soto Zen, Dogen, Zazen, New Year, Concentration, Big Mind, Priest, Pain,...
Jun 17 1969
Sokoji

Suzuki's 65th Birthday

Serial: SR-00018

Sunday Morning, May 18, 1969
Sokoji, San Francisco

Priest, Building, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Beginners, Instruction, Anger,...
May 18 1969
Sokoji

How To Take Our Bodhisattva's Vow

Serial: SR-00017

Tuesday Morning, April 29, 1969
San Francisco

Bodhisattva Vow, Dogen, Agama Sutra, Precepts, Mahayana, Sutra, Observe, Freedom, Vow...
Apr 29 1969
Sokoji

Find Out for Yourself

Serial: SR-00011

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, Suffering, Buddha Nature, Freedom, Beginners, Posture, zen,...
Mar 15 1969
Sokoji

Sun-Faced Buddha, Moon-Faced Buddha

Serial: SR-00009

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....

Baso, Koan, Blue Cliff Record, Attachment, Composure, Discrimination, difficulty,...
Mar 09 1969
Sokoji

At The End Of The Year We Clean Up Our House

Serial: SF-05970B

Dec 1968 New Year Lecture

Beginner’s Mind, Dogen, Japan, New Year, Beginners, Transmission, Instruction, Priest...
Dec 29 1968
Sokoji

untitled

Serial: SR-00007

Newly reprocessed recording should be a little clearer

Lotus Sutra, Monks, Breath, Building
Dec 24 1968
Sokoji

True Happiness and Renewal of Practice at Year's End

Serial: SF-05970A

Newly uploaded recording of this talk.

Happiness, Buddha Nature, Happiness, Buddha Nature, Composure
Dec 21 1968
Sokoji

The True Dragon

Dogen, Baso, Dragons, Freedom, Soto Zen, Emptiness, Bodhidharma, Instruction, Zazen...
Oct 12 1968
B
Sokoji

Shikantaza, Tenryu's One Finger

Serial: SR-00236

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

Sesshin, Gutei, Yaoshan, Community, Pain, sitting, Monks, Obstacles, Instruction,...
Oct 12 1968
A
Sokoji

The Ten Powers Of A Bodhisattva

Serial: SF-05106

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....

Bodhisattva, Dogen, Rinzai, Soto Zen, Emptiness, Five Ranks, Attachment, Posture,...
Aug 25 1968
Sokoji

Fragment

Aug 04 1968
Sokoji

Religion is a Cultural-Social Phenomena as well as a Personal Experience

Serial: 67-05-31

Tony Artino notes
Sokoji
Wednesday, May 31, 1967

May 31 1967
Sokoji

True Activity Includes Everything

Serial: 67-05-28

Sunday, May 28, 1967
Old Bush Street Zendo - Sokoji
Tony Artino notes

May 28 1967
Sokoji

Correct Zazen Is Your Home

Serial: 67-05-21

Sunday, May 21, 1967
Sokoji
Tony Artino notes

May 21 1967
Sokoji

Zen Emphasizes the Simplest Way of Practice

Serial: 67-05-17

Wednesday, May 17, 1967
Sokoji
Tony Artino notes

May 17 1967
Sokoji

Our Human Nature and That of Buddha Are the Same

Serial: 67-04-26

Wednesday, April 26, 1967
Sokoji
Tony Artino notes

Apr 26 1967
Sokoji

You Must Give Up Worldly Desires

Serial: SF-05100B

Saturday, April 22, 1967
Sesshin Lecture A
San Francisco

Sesshin, Family Practice, Doubt, Dragons, resistance, Priest, Hate, Freedom
Apr 22 1967
A
Sokoji

This Sesshin Was Wonderfully Done

Serial: SF-05100C

Saturday, April 22, 1967
Sesshin Lecture B
San Francisco

Sesshin, Priest, Evil, Doubt, training
Apr 22 1967
B
Sokoji

A Teaching Cannot Be Whole And Perfect

Serial: 67-04-16

Sunday April 16, 1967
Old Bush Street Zendo
Tony Artino notes

Apr 16 1967
Sokoji

Give up all Preconceived Ideas and Feelings

Serial: 67-04-05

Wednesday, April 5, 1967
Sokoji
Tony Artino notes

“Give up all preconceived ideas and feelings”

Dogen,
Apr 05 1967
Sokoji

Our Pockets Are Full Of Treasure Right Now

Serial: 67-04-02

Sunday April 2, 1967
Sokoji
Tony Artino notes

“Our pockets are full of treasure right now.”

Dogen, Beginner’s Mind,
Apr 02 1967
Sokoji

When Small Mind Finds Itself In Big Mind

Serial: 67-03-26

Sunday, March 26, 1967
Sokoji

Tony Artino notes

Mar 26 1967
Sokoji

Buddha Nature

Serial: 67-03-22

Wednesday, March 22, 1967
Sokoji
Tony Artino notes

Mar 22 1967
Sokoji

We should Sit In The Middle Of Our Problems

Serial: 67-03-12

Sunday, March 12, 1967
Tony Artino notes
Sokoji

Mar 12 1967
Sokoji

In the first instruction of ten instructions in Gakudō-yōjin-shū

Sesshin, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Sixth Patriarch, Platform Sutra, training, Instruction,...
Dec 17 1966
A
Sokoji

The Need for Training in Buddhism without Self-Seeking Mind

Serial: SF-05121B

Original recording

Sesshin, Dogen, training, Buddha Nature, Hate, Observe, Instruction, Doubt
Dec 17 1966
B
Sokoji

Give Up Gaining Ideas and Just Sit

Serial: 66-11-30

Notes by Tony Artino
Wednesday, November 30, 1966
Old Bush Street Zendo - Sokoji

“Give up gaining ideas and just sit.”

Nov 30 1966
Sokoji

Ordinary Men Carry a Preconceived Idea of the Self

Serial: 66-11-20

Tony Artino notes on SS lecture
Sunday, November 20, 1966
Old Bush Street Zendo

Nov 20 1966
Sokoji

Zazen Is Not For Gaining A Mystical Something

Serial: 66-11-16

Tony Artino notes ,
At Old Bush Street Zendo - Sokoji
Wednesday, November 16, 1966

Nov 16 1966
Sokoji

Suffering Comes From Desires

Serial: 66-11-09

Wednesday, November 9, 1966
Sokoji
Tony Artino notes

Nov 09 1966
Sokoji

Blue Cliff Records Case 45

Serial: SF-05097E

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

Blue Cliff Record, Sesshin, Joshu, Eiheiji, Observe, Diversity, Duality
Aug 19 1966
D
Sokoji

This Fascicle of Shobogenzo

Serial: SF-05097F

Sesshin Lecture 1966 Tape #2 Track 2: Suzuki 1pm lecture Friday

Sesshin, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Blue Cliff Record, Attachment, Instruction, Freedom,...
Aug 19 1966
C
Sokoji

Don't Be Attached To Your Attainment

Serial: SF-05097H

Sesshin Lecture 1966 Tape #2 Track 4 Friday lecture by Suzuki during morning zazen Friday

Sesshin, Instruction, Attachment
Aug 19 1966
B
Sokoji

Embodying Full Function in Zen

Serial: SF-05097I

Sesshin Lecture 1966 Tape #2 Track 4 instruction by Rev Katagiri Friday morning

Composure, Zazen
Aug 19 1966
Sokoji

This is the Fourth Day of our Sesshin

Serial: SF-05097C

Reconstruction of Lecture from Second Zazen Period (Before Morning Service)
Thursday Morning, August 18, 1966, Lecture A
Sokoji, San Francisco

[This tape is...

Sesshin, Suzuki Roshi
Aug 18 1966
A
Sokoji

Shobogenzo (middle of talk only)

Serial: SF-05097A

Sesshin Lecture 1966 Tape #2; Track 1 Continuation and completion of 1pm lecture of Suzuki Roshi, Thursday. Looks like whole of this is lost, except near end and parts on...

Aug 18 1966
B
Sokoji

OLD - This is the Fourth Day of our Sesshin

Serial: SF-05097C

Sesshin Lecture 1966 Tape #2 ; Track 1 My reconstruction from memory and notes of Suzuki Roshi's beautiful lecture Thursday morning during 2nd period of zazen before morning...

Sesshin, Suzuki Roshi
Aug 18 1966
A
Sokoji

Shobogenzo

Serial: SF-05097D

Sesshin Lecture 1966 Tape #2
Track 1 contd: Most of Suzuki's 6pm Lecture, Thursday evening continued on track 4
Track 4 continuation and finish of 6pm lecture of...

Sesshin, Sixth Patriarch, Dogen, Subject-and-Object, Attachment, Buddha Nature,...
Aug 18 1966
C
Sokoji

Shōbōgenzō

Serial: SF-05093F

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

Sesshin, Buddha Mind, Birth-and-Death, Dana, Fasting, Interdependence
Aug 18 1966
B
Sokoji

Causality

Serial: SF-05093J

Suzuki lecture 6pm Weds Track 2, continued on Track 3

Sesshin, Time, Freedom, Happiness, Fox, Oneness, Enemies, Offering, Evil, Lay...
Aug 17 1966
6:00pm
Sokoji

Our Mind Should Be Calm

Serial: SF-05093L

Tuesday, August 16, 1966
Sesshin: Zazen short instruction
Sokoji, San Francisco

Sesshin, Instruction,
Aug 16 1966
Sokoji

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