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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, Ceremony, Forms, New Year, Priest
Sep 16 1969
Sokoji

Not Always So

Serial: SR-00124

August Sesshin Lecture
Thursday, August 7, 1969
San Francisco

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

Not Always So

Serial: SF-10092

Talk by Shunryu Suzuki Not Always So Sokoji Sf Ew on 1969-08-07

Aug 07 1969
Sokoji

To Actually Practice Selflessness

Serial: SR-00125

August Sesshin Lecture
Wednesday, August 6, 1969
San Francisco

Sesshin, Precepts, Funeral, Liberation, Continuous Practice, Karma
Aug 06 1969
Sokoji

To Actually Practice Selflessness

Serial: SF-10088

Talk by Shunryu Suzuki To Actually Selflessness Sokoji Sf Ew on 1969-08-06

Karma
Aug 06 1969
Sokoji

I have nothing in my mind

Emptiness, Forms, Zazen, Buddha Nature, Interview
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, Dogen, Buddha Mind, Buddha Mind, 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, Emotions, Precepts, Zazen
Jul 08 1969
Sokoji

Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen

Serial: SR-00033

July 1969
San Francisco

Morning.

Dogen, Buddha Nature, Ego, Priest, Tassajara, Transmission
Jul 1969
Sokoji

Direct Experience of Reality

Baso, Dogen, Forms
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, Big Mind, Concentration, Ego, Lay Practice, New Year...
Jun 17 1969
Sokoji

Suzuki's 65th Birthday

Serial: SR-00018

Sunday Morning, May 18, 1969
Sokoji, San Francisco

Posture, Priest, Tassajara
May 18 1969
Sokoji

How To Take Our Bodhisattva's Vow

Serial: SR-00017

Tuesday Morning, April 29, 1969
San Francisco

Dogen, Agama Sutra, Hate, Mahayana, Precepts
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, Buddha Nature, Posture, Suffering
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, Composure, Buddha Nature, Duality, Posture
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, Transmission, Priest
Dec 29 1968
Sokoji

Shariputra In The Lotus Sutra

Serial: SR-00007

Newly reprocessed recording should be a little clearer

Lotus Sutra,
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

Shikantaza, Tenryu's One Finger

Serial: SR-00236

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

Sesshin, Gutei, Yaoshan, Community, Obstacles, Precepts
Oct 12 1968
A
Sokoji

The True Dragon

Dogen, Baso, Dragons, Soto Zen, Emptiness, Bodhidharma, Zazen
Oct 12 1968
B
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, Concentration, Emptiness, Realization, Posture...
Aug 25 1968
Sokoji

This Sesshin Was Wonderfully Done

Serial: SF-05100C

Saturday, April 22, 1967
Sesshin Lecture B
San Francisco

Sesshin, Priest, Doubt
Apr 22 1967
B
Sokoji

Dropping Off Body And Mind

Zazen, Enlightenment
Apr 22 1967
Sokoji

The Need for Training in Buddhism without Self-Seeking Mind

Serial: SF-05121B

Original recording

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

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

Sesshin, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Hui-neng, Platform Sutra, Transmission
Dec 17 1966
A
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

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, 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, Doubt
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,
Aug 19 1966
B
Sokoji

Embodying Zen: Full Function Living

Serial: SF-05097I

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

Zazen
Aug 19 1966
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 Paramita, Fasting, Interdependence...
Aug 18 1966
B
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

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 (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

Thursday Talk

Priest
Aug 18 1966
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, Hui-neng, Dogen, Subject-and-Object, Buddha Nature, Duality, Karma
Aug 18 1966
C
Sokoji

Causality

Serial: SF-05093J

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

Sesshin,
Aug 17 1966
6:00pm
Sokoji

Risk Your Life

Dogen, Zazen, Daily Life
Aug 17 1966
Sokoji

Wednesday Talk

Serial: SF-05093I

Tape operator's notes (Richard Baker) kept on at the beginning

Aug 17 1966
Sokoji

Our Mind Should Be Calm

Serial: SF-05093L

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

Sesshin,
Aug 16 1966
Sokoji

Encouraging Words for Sesshin

Buddha Nature, Zazen
Aug 16 1966
Sokoji

Morning Instruction

Chanting, Doubt
Aug 16 1966
Sokoji

Tuesday Sesshin Talk

Serial: SF-05093N

Tape operator's notes (Richard Baker) left on at beginning

Buddha Nature, Mahayana
Aug 16 1966
Sokoji

The first day of the sesshin is almost finished

Serial: SF-05093K

Monday, August 15, 1966
Sesshin: Evening Lecture, Lecture D
Sokoji, San Francisco

Sesshin, Causation, Composure, Posture
Aug 15 1966
D
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, Japan
Aug 15 1966
B
Sokoji

Think Everything Out

Serial: SF-05093C

Monday, August 15, 1966, Lecture C
Sokoji, San Francisco

Sesshin, Causation, Hate, Concentration, Karma
Aug 15 1966
C
Sokoji

Talk on Shobogenzo

Serial: SF-05111B

Other Japanese lecture [case replaced 12/95. Case notes transcribed verbatim]

Sesshin, Happiness
Aug 15 1966
B
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, Doubt
Aug 15 1966
C
Sokoji

A Few Form Instructions

Aug 15 1966
Sokoji

We Are Not Perfect

Serial: SF-05080A

Sesshin talk. At the beginning, Suzuki Roshi is drawing from Dogen's "Bodhisattva's Four Methods of Guidance." The methods are also in Shushogi.

Sesshin, Bodhisattva, Shushogi, Buddha Mind
Jul 23 1966
Sokoji

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