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Silence Talks
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            The Activity of SesshinSesshin,  Suzuki Roshi, Work, Silence            | 
                  
             Oct 12 2005 Tassajara           | 
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            Wheel of Birth and DeathSerial: SF-00969   Sunday Lecture: Children's stories: earth moving around the sun is one year; "stone soup"; thinking and not thinking; Tibetan wheel of birth and death - six realms, twelve-fold...  Peace, Dependent Origination, Six Realms, Demons, Birth-and-Death, Liberation,...            | 
                  
             Apr 10 2005 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Expressing Yourself CompletelySerial: SF-03594   Sesshin 2 Day 5  Practice, Time, Silence            | 
                  
             Feb 24 2005 Tassajara           | 
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            Living The Good LifeSerial: SF-00933   Sunday Lecture  Patience, Ordinary Mind, Mill Valley, Big Mind, Attachment, Commitment, Silence,...            | 
                  
             Aug 29 2004 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            The Power of TenSerial: SF-00985   The silence of 'don't know'; outer space Vimalakirti Sutra; radiant vision of alternate universes. Motivation for literary inventiveness - world is not only what we think;...  Vimalakirti, Birth-and-Death, Liberation, Mill Valley, Bell, Lotus Sutra, Heart Sutra...            | 
                  
             Dec 14 2003 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Seven Principles for Preventing DeclineSerial: SF-00935   Dhammapada, 9/11, we are not well, cause of great peace, Huey Johnson, the soldiers will have their way, dogs of war, Dalai Lama, pinpoint causes, 'Guns, Germs, and Steel',...  Nirvana Sutra, Precepts, Daily Life, Religion, Interdependence, Renunciation,...            | 
                  
             Sep 15 2002 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Wednesday Lecture Silence, Buddha Nature, Practice Period, Non-duality, Gratitude, Lineage, Passions,...            | 
                  
             Mar 21 2001 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Sunday Lecture Four Noble Truths, Right Effort, Greed, Attachment, Bodhidharma, Karma, Three...            | 
                  
             Sep 17 2000 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Women Ancestors Class Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Lay, Ceremony, Silence, Freedom, Practice Period,...            | 
                  
             Aug 15 2000 Unknown           | 
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            Surangama Sutra Class Emptiness, Blue Cliff Record, Intimacy, Don't Know Mind, Silence, Karma,...            | 
                  
             May 23 2000 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Sesshin Lecture Precepts, Karma, Don't Know Mind, Confession-and-Repentance, Repentance,...            | 
                  
             Apr 14 2000 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Wednesday Lecture Buddha Ancestors, Death-and-Dying, Silence, New Year, Priest, Suzuki Roshi,...            | 
                  
             Apr 05 2000 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Sunday Lecture Letting Go, Ceremony, Freedom, Zazen, Bodhidharma, Interview, Mindfulness, Silence,...            | 
                  
             Mar 05 2000 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            One-day Sitting Lecture Greed, Offering, Lotus Sutra, Bodhidharma, Liberation, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center...            | 
                  
             Sep 18 1999 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Sunday Lecture Birth-and-Death, Teacher-and-Student, Lineage, Letting Go, Suzuki Roshi, Mill Valley...            | 
                  
             Aug 29 1999 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Blue Cliff Record ClassSerial: SF-00068   67th Case: Mahasattva Fu Expounds the Scripture; single-point samadhi.  Concentration, Repentance, Blue Cliff Record, Bodhidharma, Interview, Manjushri,...            | 
                  
             Apr 22 1999            | 
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            Eight Characteristics of Suzuki Roshi's TeachingSerial: SF-03111   Sunday Lecture - Questions and Answers - duplicate  Suzuki Roshi, Impermanence, Commitment, Lineage, Buddha Nature, Freedom, Faith, Zazen...            | 
                  
             Feb 21 1999 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            The Feeling Of Practice PeriodSerial: SF-00148   Wednesday talk; the heart and determination to study - to support and appreciate the practice period.  Practice Period, Impermanence, Mindfulness, Precepts, Zazen Mind, Silence, Big Mind,...            | 
                  
             Oct 21 1998 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Sesshin Lecture Composure, Posture, Balance, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Silence, Freedom, Observe...            | 
                  
             Aug 22 1998 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Eight Social Practices of the BuddhaSerial: SF-03230   One-day sitting lecture: 1 - Guided meditation; 2 - eight ways of activity and cultivation: 1-4 inward, 5-8 ways to be in the world; four unlimited practices  Letting Go, Happiness, Cultivation, Monastic Practice, Equanimity, Peace,...            | 
                  
             Jul 20 1998 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Spring SesshinSerial: SF-02727   Wednesday  Posture, Subject-and-Object, Vow, Instruction, Zazen, Chanting, Observe, Separation,...            | 
                  
             Mar 25 1998 Unknown           | 
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            Buddhism At Millennium's EdgeSerial: SF-00030   Seminar 1  Dragons, Evil, Rinzai, Ego, Bell, Discrimination, Greed, Silence, Balance,...            | 
                  
               1998            | 
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            Blue Cliff Record ClassSerial: SF-03092   Case 10  Silence, Birth-and-Death, Interview, Rinzai, Soto Zen, Funeral, Book of Serenity,...            | 
                  
             Oct 21 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Buddha's BirthdaySerial: SF-03098   Sunday Lecture  Buddha's Birthday, Ceremony, Bell, Heart Sutra, Humility, Chanting, Renewal,...            | 
                  
             Apr 06 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Including The UnincludedSerial: SF-03136   Sunday Lecture - life, the path as the neverending journey of inclusiom that starts with ourselves where we are now, where we have been and from there just goes deep and deeper...  Forgiveness, Practice Period, Silence, Offering, Anger, Diversity, Ordination, Peace...            | 
                  
             Oct 13 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Presence Unveiled: Living Zen Authentically Time, Suzuki Roshi, Silence            | 
                  
             May 18 1996 Unknown           | 
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            A Sense of Vision Giving a Sense of Purpose in LifeSerial: SF-03228   Sunday lecture  Interdependence, Lotus Sutra, Happiness, Nirvana, Silence, Peace, Enthusiasm, Bell...            | 
                  
             May 05 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Old Age, Sickness and DeathSerial: SF-03633   One-day sitting - Katagiri in Returning To Silence - Three kinds of thirsting desire  Two Truths, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness, Funeral, Zazen, Continuous Practice,...            | 
                  
             Apr 20 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Fearlessness - What Is It? Intimacy, Birth-and-Death, Transmission, Absolute-and-Relative, Realization, Ceremony...            | 
                  
             Mar 02 1996 Tassajara           | 
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            Rohatsu SesshinSerial: SF-03575   Duplicate  Suzuki Roshi, Composure, Birth-and-Death, Funeral, Zazen, Obstacles, Renewal,...            | 
                  
             Dec 14 1995 Unknown           | 
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            The Greater Discourse and the Destruction of CravingSerial: SF-03231   Sunday Lecture  Anger, Silence, Letting Go, Bell, Happiness, confusion, Suzuki Roshi, Bodhisattva...            | 
                  
             Nov 19 1995 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Our Relationship with Form - Speech & FoodSerial: SF-00151   Wednesday dharma talk.  Practice Period, Conversation, Happiness, Ceremony, Silence, Funeral, Bowing, Heart...            | 
                  
             Sep 06 1995 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            One-day Sitting Silence, Posture, Monastic Practice, Emotions, Letting Go, Ego, Soto Zen, confusion,...            | 
                  
             Apr 22 1995 Unknown           | 
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            Practicing With The PreceptsSerial: SF-00143   Tokubetsu Sesshin 
  Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Three Treasures, Transmission, Vow, Silence, Bell,...            | 
                  
             Mar 28 1995            | 
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            Tokubetsu Sesshin Delusion, confusion, Freedom, Sangha, Silence, Anger, Hate            | 
                  
             Mar 27 1995            | 
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            Tokubetsu Sesshin Transmission, Posture, Delusion, Right Effort, Zazen, Daily Life, Observe, Silence,...            | 
                  
             Mar 27 1995            | 
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            Sunday Lecture Hate, Mindfulness, Letting Go, Happiness, Zazen, Patience, Commitment, Liberation,...            | 
                  
             Aug 28 1994 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            The Meeting of American Culture and BuddhismSerial: SF-00103   Lecture Series  Right Speech, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Fox, Half-Smile, Lay, Emptiness,...            | 
                  
             Mar 01 1994 City Center           | 
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            Introductory Lecture Realization, Silence, Daily Life, Mindfulness, Happiness, Freedom, Peace            | 
                  
               1987            | 
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            The Second Grave PreceptSerial: SF-00027   Not taking what is not given.  Buddha Nature, Precepts, Peace, Realization, Samadhi, Ceremony, Ego, Silence,...            | 
                  
             Aug 04 1983 3 of 3            | 
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            Public LectureSerial: SF-01798   Duplicate  Enemies, Peace, Daily Life, Half-Smile, Anger, Happiness, Silence, Birth-and-Death,...            | 
                  
             Mar 28 1983 San Francisco Zen Center           | 
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            Application of the Practice - Feminism and Buddhism in the Diamond Sangha Ceremony, Lotus Sutra, Silence, Anger, Passions, Offering, Balance, Doubt, Peace...            | 
                  
             Aug 14 1981 3            | 
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            Dining Room class Silence, Current Events, Religion, Monastic Practice, Faith, Sanctuary, Fox, Patience...            | 
                  
             Jun 14 1981 1 Tassajara           | 
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            Pathway to Enlightenment Through MahamudraSerial: SF-00021   Speaking on Mahamudra and translating old Mahamudra texts.  Realization, Concentration, Politics, Discrimination, Daily Life, Transmission,...            | 
                  
             Apr 23 1974 City Center           | 
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            Monastic LifeSerial: SF-00007A   Early Christian mystics; Benedictine regulations, the rule of obedience; manifestation of God in the world.  Realization, Monastic Practice, Silence, Ego, Separation, Conversation, Beginners,...            | 
                  
             Feb 07 1974 Tassajara           | 
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            The Monastic TraditionSerial: SF-00131   How to deal with peak experiences in our lives.  Monastic Practice, Silence, Gratitude, Evil, Cultivation, Conversation, Lay,...            | 
                  
             Feb 26 1973            | 
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            The Monastic TraditionSerial: SF-00132   Monastic experience across religious traditions.  Silence, Monastic Practice, Don't Know Mind, Emptiness, Religion, Bell, Anger...            | 
                  
             Feb 26 1973 2            | 
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            How To Have Sincere PracticeSerial: SR-00145   Suzuki Roshi edited from longer recording.  Building, Community, Meditation, Obstacles, Interview, Silence, Breath            | 
                  
             Apr 25 1970 A City Center           | 
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            Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind TempleSerial: SF-05995   This is the bulk of the ceremony, with speakers other than Suzuki Roshi, in Japanese and English  Gratitude, Zoom, Ceremony, Obstacles, Observe, Silence, Enemies, Evil, Precepts...            | 
                  
             Apr 25 1970 City Center           | 
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            Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-14Serial: SF-05683   Fall 1968 Lotus Sutra,  Demons, Silence, Evil            | 
                  
             Oct  1968 Series 2, Talk 14 Tassajara           |