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Title	Speaker	Date
Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind Temple Serial: SF-05995 This is the bulk of the ceremony, with speakers other than Suzuki Roshi, in Japanese and English Gratitude, Precepts, Ceremony, Zoom, Obstacles	Various	Apr 25 1970 City Center
How To Have Sincere Practice Serial: SR-00145 Suzuki Roshi edited from longer recording. Community, Interview, Obstacles	Suzuki Roshi	Apr 25 1970 A City Center
Remarks at the Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind Temple Serial: SF-05996 These are Suzuki Roshi's words, edited together out of longer recording of ceremony. Ceremony,	Suzuki Roshi	Apr 25 1970 City Center
Buddha's Birthday Lecture Ceremony, Ceremony	Suzuki Roshi	Apr 12 1970 City Center
The Zen of Going to the Rest Room Ummon, Tangaryo, Big Mind, Don't Know Mind, Monastic Practice, Suffering...	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 29 1970 City Center
Way-Seeking Mind Serial: SF-05361 Saturday Lecture Of March Sesshin Saturday, March 28, 1970 San Francisco Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin, Monastic Practice	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 28 1970 City Center
Our Everyday Life Is Like A Movie Posture	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 15 1970 City Center
Letters From Emptiness Serial: SR-00156 How to Understand the Idea of Emptiness Sunday, March 8, 1970 San Francisco Doubt, Emptiness	Suzuki Roshi	Mar 08 1970 City Center
Practice To Be Like A Stone Serial: SF-06125 SR-70-02-28 Sesshin lecture #6 (last lecture) - followed by service #2 for Trudy Dixon NB - is 1970 despite the year added to the photos Composure, Diversity, Don't Know Mind, Tassajara	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 28 1970 City Center
Non-Dualistic Practice Serial: SR-00260 Sesshin Lecture No. 3: Wednesday, February 25, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Big Mind, Duality, Emptiness, Karma, Mahayana, Suffering	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 25 1970 City Center
Selflessness, Being and Non-Being: The Background of Shikantaza Serial: SR-00261 Sesshin Lecture No. 1: Monday, February 23, 1970 San Francisco Sesshin, Buddha Nature, Emptiness, Mahayana, Posture, Continuous Practice, Ceremony,...	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 23 1970 City Center
The Background of Shikantaza Consciousness, Posture	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 22 1970 City Center
Brown Rice is Just Right Serial: SR-00247 Morning Sesshin Lecture Sunday, February 1, 1970 City Center Sesshin, Buddha Nature, Emptiness, Hate, Suffering	Suzuki Roshi	Feb 01 1970 City Center
Our Effort In Our Practice	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 31 1970 City Center
Caring for the Soil Serial: SR-00199 Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism Sunday, January 25, 1970 San Francisco Buddha Nature, Emptiness, Gratitude, Hate, Mahayana	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 25 1970 City Center
Rules Dogen, Posture, Doubt	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 18 1970 City Center
Ordination Ceremony: Bill Kwong and Silas Hoadley Ceremony, Priest, Ceremony	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 11 1970 City Center
Respect for Things Serial: SR-00200 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... Bodhisattva Way, Big Mind, Concentration, Bowing	Suzuki Roshi	Jan 04 1970 City Center
Fundamental Buddhist Point: To Adjust Ourselves To Our Surroundings Serial: SR-00192 Adjusting to life at City Center. Cleaning and zazen. Do we need furniture to practice? Dogen, Eiheiji, Zazen,	Suzuki Roshi	Dec 21 1969 City Center
Pinch Hitter Serial: SR-00268B Tuesday, November 25, 1969 Evening Lecture City Center, San Francisco [Katagiri spoke before Suzuki. This portion has now been edited out] Delusion, Priest, Wisdom, Zazen	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 25 1969 B City Center
Pinch Hitter Zazen	Katagiri Roshi	Nov 25 1969 A City Center
Opening Lecture At Page Street Zendo: American Precepts Serial: SR-00264 Moving into the new space. Don't worry about success, practice in the present. Hyakujo's regulations, positive and negative sides of guidelines and precepts. Precepts, Shingi, Gratitude, Precepts	Suzuki Roshi	Nov 22 1969 City Center
SFZC Service Serial: SF-00014 Early Seventies	Various	City Center
Morning Service Serial: SF-00016 Mid-Seventies Emptiness, Suffering, Consciousness	Various	City Center
Mountain Seat Ceremony Serial: SF-03587 After intermission; at tape turn: Linda: Knock, knock - Darlene: Who's there? - Linda (quickly): Darlene. [laughter] Ceremony, Suzuki Roshi, Lay Ordination, Priest-and-Lay, Ordination, Tassajara,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	City Center
Radiant Transformation through Divine Service Compassion	Kosho McCall	City Center
Tendai Shomyo Exercises Serial: SF-01779 Requested by Jonathan Condit (one side only)	Bishop Ara	City Center
Vow to Live the Life You’re Already Living Serial: SF-08664 02/14/2024, Kim Kōgen Daihō Hart, dharma talk at City Center. In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Kim does a deep dive into the five remembrances to support us... Suffering	Kim Kogen Daiho Hart	City Center
Beginner’s Mind: Zen and Tibetan Buddhist Practice Understandings Serial: SF-08496 This dharma talk was given at Beginner’s Mind Temple by visiting teacher Gaylon Ferguson. During the Fall 2024 Practice Period at Beginner’s Mind Temple, the community is... Suzuki Roshi	Acharya Gaylon Ferguson	City Center
Feelings as Dharma Gates Serial: SF-11084 Practicing exactly where we are is the perfect place, an exploration of dharma gates and developing the "practice" muscle of entering them. 07/15/2021, Laurie Schley... Big Mind, Vimalakirti, Bodhisattva	Kosei Laurie Senauke	City Center
The Backward Step Serial: SF-11129 An exploration of zazen as a mirror of our everyday life and our everyday mind. 09/01/2021, Hakusho Johan Ostlund, dharma talk at City Center. Zoom, Community	Hakusho Ostlund	City Center
Embodied Stillness in Zen Practice Suzuki Roshi, Zazen	Fu Schroeder	Jun 26 City Center
Embrace Stillness for True Mindfulness Shikantaza, Zhiyi, Sojun Mel Weitsman, Zazen, Big Mind	Jiryu Rutschman-Byler	Aug 21 City Center
Offering the Moment: Zen Presence Dogen	Meiya Wender	Jul 31 City Center
Zen Precepts: The Essence of Being Precepts, Ceremony, Dogen	Eijun Linda Cutts	Sep 25 City Center

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