Instruction Talks

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Title	Speaker	Date
Embodied Wisdom Through Zen Practice Posture, Anger, Emptiness, Discrimination, Mindfulness, Liberation, Instruction,...	Katherine Thanas	Apr 09 1988 SFZC
Guru Yoga Lineage, Buddha Nature, Chanting, Don't Know Mind, Transmission, Offering,...	Tai Sifu	Apr 08 1988 SFZC
Hevajra Balance, Instruction, realization, Emptiness	Tai Sifu	Apr 07 1988 SFZC
Hevajra Lineage, Aspects of Practice, Right Effort, Emptiness, Balance, Instruction, Don...	Tai Sifu	Apr 07 1988 SFZC
Dzögchen Serial: SF-01938 Speaker surmised from series Mindfulness, Ordinary Mind, Karma, Emptiness, Demons, Balance, confusion,...	Chhoje Rinpoche	Feb 14 1988 SFZC
Dzögchen Serial: SF-01939 Speaker surmised from series Karma, confusion, Emptiness, Balance, Don't Know Mind, Instruction, Happiness,...	Chhoje Rinpoche	Feb 14 1988 SFZC
Sunday Lecture Half-Smile, Soto Zen, Birth-and-Death, Letting Go, Instruction, Cultivation,...	Yvonne Rand	Jul 25 1987 Green Gulch
Compassionate Balance in Zen Living Serial: SF-03987 Monday Precepts, Sixth Patriarch, Anger, Observe, Conversation, Instruction, Cultivation,...	Yvonne Rand	Feb 16 1987 SFZC
On Father Thomas Merton Priest, Fasting, Hate, Bell, New Year, Observe, Silence, Instruction, Lay, Happiness...	Philip Whalen	Jun 28 1983 SFZC
On Father Thomas Merton Instruction, Forgiveness, Commitment, Silence, Bell, Priest, training	Philip Whalen	Jun 28 1983 SFZC
Pure Effort In Everyday Busy Life Serial: BZ-00020 Saturday Lecture Posture, New Year Celebration, Pure Effort, Don't Know Mind, Practice Period,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Jan 02 1982 Berkeley Zen Center
Visionary Poetics: Artistry and Perception Politics, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Silence, Passions, Bell, Conversation,...	Robert Duncan	Mar 16 1980 SFZC
Imagined Realities in Sordello's Labyrinth Instruction, Greed, Doubt, Religion, Sanctuary, Intuition, Politics, Evil, Emotions...	Robert Duncan	Mar 09 1980 SFZC
Zen in Everyday Beauty Serial: SF-03016 8411-2 Dragons, Bodhidharma, Light-and-Darkness, First Principle, Ceremony, Instruction,...	Alan Watts	1973 Unknown
Allen Ginsberg and Musicians Serial: SF-00105 Musical event. Attachment, Instruction, Obstacles, Offering, Vow, Anger, Religion	Allen Ginsberg	Feb 22 1972 1 City Center
Allen Ginsberg and Musicians Serial: SF-00107 Musical event Obstacles, Vow, Instruction, Greed, Chanting, Passions, Offering, Attachment, Karma...	Allen Ginsberg	Feb 22 1972 1 City Center
Open Your Intuition Serial: SF-05587B Sesshin Meeting Friday, July 31, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Intuition, Instruction, Beginners	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 31 1970 City Center
Some Questions Question-and-Answer, Breath, Buddha Nature, Posture, sitting, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 28 1969 Tassajara
Our Way To Attain Liberation Serial: SF-05087B Monday Evening, August 18, 1969 Tassajara Story of the Sixth Patriarch. Practice with everyone else at the monastery, without self-centered ideas. Answering... Sixth Patriarch, Monastic Practice, Japan, Aspects of Practice, Discrimination, Faith...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 18 1969 Tassajara
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...	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 29 1968 Sokoji
The True Dragon Dogen, Baso, Dragons, Freedom, Soto Zen, Emptiness, Bodhidharma, Instruction, Zazen...	Suzuki Roshi	Oct 12 1968 B Sokoji
What is Soto and what is Rinzai? Serial: SF-05144A SR024 Tass July 26/68 Roshi Sectarianism copied; July 21 Chino Sensei; July 24 Chino Sensei - also many handwritten notes on the content NB: the date for the SR talk in... Soto Zen, Rinzai, Buddha Nature, Bodhidharma, Evil, Bowing, Mahayana, Gratitude, Ego...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 26 1968 Tassajara
Become More Direct and Honest Serial: SF-05276 Protection Master: re-recording from cassette marked "Suzuki Roshi talk with background music: no date, original copied" (Sony C60 side A); recorded: 7 1/2 ips, bias... Posture, Instruction, Religion	Suzuki Roshi	1968 Unknown
Nature of Our Practice Serial: SF-05141B Tuesday, December 5, 1967, Lecture B Evening Sesshin Lecture Tassajara Sesshin, Dogen, Fukanzazengi, Dragons, Daily Life, Observe, Freedom, training,...	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 05 1967 B Tassajara
Inner Power of Practice Serial: SF-05137A SR017 - Track 1 - slow - Roshi Lecture - 12/2/67 - afternoon - copied Sesshin, Blue Cliff Record, Concentration, Precepts, Monastic Practice, New Year,...	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 02 1967 Tassajara
Practice Zazen With Your Whole Mind And Body Serial: SF-05131B This is lecture D from these notes on the reel boxes (05132-B was added to this) Several minutes of tape operator's notes at the end are included, the transcript was... Instruction, Zazen, Posture, Beginners, Funeral, Religion, Instruction, Emotions,...	Suzuki Roshi	Sep 08 1967 Morning Tassajara
The Need for Training in Buddhism without Self-Seeking Mind Serial: SF-05121B Original recording Sesshin, Dogen, training, Buddha Nature, Hate, Observe, Instruction, Doubt	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 17 1966 B Sokoji
In the first instruction of ten instructions in Gakudō-yōjin-shū Sesshin, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Sixth Patriarch, Platform Sutra, training, Instruction,...	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 17 1966 A 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,...	Suzuki Roshi	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	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 19 1966 B Sokoji
Our Mind Should Be Calm Serial: SF-05093L Tuesday, August 16, 1966 Sesshin: Zazen short instruction Sokoji, San Francisco Sesshin, Instruction,	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 16 1966 Sokoji
Think Everything Out Serial: SF-05093C Monday, August 15, 1966, Lecture C Sokoji, San Francisco Sesshin, causation, Attachment, Hate, Intuition, Concentration, Evil, Instruction,...	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 15 1966 C Sokoji
Genjo Koan Serial: SF-05111C This is the bulk of the talk attributed to this date. It sounds distinct from the earlier fragment, and the date may not be accurate, though the subject is appropriate for the... Sesshin, Attachment, Instruction, Freedom, Doubt	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 15 1966 C Sokoji
You Cannot Appreciate Our Teaching In Its True Sense Serial: SF-05093B Monday, August 15, 1966 Sesshin: Lunch Lecture, Lecture B Sokoji, San Francisco Sesshin, Oryoki, Instruction, Discrimination, japanese	Suzuki Roshi	Aug 15 1966 B Sokoji
Study Yourself Serial: SF-05123B ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #4, by Shundo David Haye ===== "I always felt his best Zen talks were the ones he gave on Thursday mornings in my home. They were... Dogen, Genjokoan, Rinzai, Monastic Practice, Instruction, Hate, Doubt	Suzuki Roshi	Sep 09 1965 Los Altos
Don't Be Bothered By Your Mind / Science of Philosophy is Like a Dissection Serial: SF-05104C Tape 5 Summer sesshin 1965 Thursday July 29th Side 2: 5:45 meditation, 9:00 AM lecture [Case replaced 12/95. Original notes were transcribed verbatim - WKR] Sesshin, Peace, Buddha Nature, Current Events, Bodhidharma, Passions, Instruction,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 30 1965 A-B Sokoji
The Purpose of Practice is to Have a Direct Experience of Buddha Serial: SF-05103B Tape 4 Summer Sesshin 1965: Thursday July 29 9am lecture - transcribed Sesshin, Buddha Nature, Evil, Precepts, Ego, Instruction	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 29 1965 A Sokoji
Pure Rules Serial: SF-05126A ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #6, by Shundo David Haye ===== The value of these sets of recordings during sesshins in the summer of 1965 at Sokoji is that not... Sesshin, Instruction, Emptiness, Interview, Religion, Faith	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 28 1965 9:00am Sokoji
Lunch Instruction Serial: SF-05126C ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #7, by Shundo David Haye ===== This is a second short instruction from the same day of sesshin as the Pure Rules talk (https://... Sesshin, Oryoki, Instruction, Ego, Japan, Observe	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 28 1965 12:00 Sokoji
Wisdom Seeks For Wisdom Serial: SF-05128A ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #2, by Shundo David Haye ===== Among the tapes previously known to exist in the Zen Center archives, the earliest were from a sesshin... Precepts, Genjokoan, Instruction, Precepts, Buddha Nature, Freedom, Buddha Mind,...	Suzuki Roshi	Jul 22 1965 Los Altos
Union of Mind and Presence Buddha Nature, Ordinary Mind, Big Mind, Commitment, Concentration, Letting Go,...	Katherine Thanas	Aug 22 198 Unknown
Buddhism and Psychotherapy Peace, Happiness, Mindfulness, Daily Life, Bell, Silence, Addiction, resistance,...	Thich Nhat Hanh	Unknown
Buddhism and Psychotherapy Peace, Happiness, Daily Life, Mindfulness, Concentration, Enemies, Instruction, Anger...	Thich Nhat Hanh	Unknown
Lecture on Tibet Serial: SF-05340 Not Suzuki Roshi - lecture on Tibet-in-exile and HH Dalai Lama (both sides) Interview, Faith, New Year, Buddha Nature, Transmission, Instruction, Lay, training,...	Unknown	Unknown
First Shuso Lecture Serial: SF-04044 #shuso-talk Instruction, Lotus Sutra, Offering, Balance, Emotions, Ceremony	Hekizan Tom Girardot	Unknown
Religion and Sexuality Serial: SF-03020B #13 Enemies, Religion, Enthusiasm, Evil, Instruction, Observe, Balance, Vow, Karma,...	Alan Watts	Unknown
Death and Rebirth Part 2 Serial: SF-03029A #6 Dependent Origination, Mahayana, Evil, Conversation, Impermanence, Ego, Enemies,...	Alan Watts	Unknown
Reflecting the Mirror Serial: SF-03045B #12 Faith, Freedom, Ego, Bodhidharma, training, Enemies, Instruction, realization...	Alan Watts	Unknown

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