Suzuki Roshi Talks

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Wind Stops, But Still Flower Falls

Serial: SR-00163

This audio has been improved, so more of the students' questions may be discernible.

Ummon, Faith, Freedom, reality, Dragons, Community, Emptiness, Wisdom, Building,...
Aug 15 1971
Tassajara

Obon Days

Ceremony, Big Mind, Nishiari Bokusan, Offering, Suffering, American, Faith
Aug 12 1971
Tassajara

At the Time of Yakusan

Serial: SF-06061

New version of this lecture has been uploaded, which may allow for more of the transcript to be done.

Yaoshan, Faith
Aug 01 1971
Tassajara

Universal Practice for Laymen and Monks

Serial: SR-00175

Whatever you do is practice; be careful not to practice for the sake of the self. Zazen as a way to find realization and get used to realization. Whether priest or layperson,...

Practice, Zazen, Bodhisattva, Dogen, Sixth Patriarch, Buddha Mind, Faith, Truth,...
Jul 25 1971
Tassajara

San-Pachi-Nenju

Ceremony, First Principle, Faith, Non-duality, Diversity, Lay
Jul 22 1971
Tassajara

Why Then Is It Necessary To Accept Precepts

Precepts, Precepts, Big Mind, Buddha Nature, training, Religion, Observe, Priest,...
Jul 17 1971
City Center

Purely Involved Helping Others

Serial: SF-00013B

00013A was recorded over a tape of Suzuki Roshi speaking, which was labeled as 00013B.

This is an incomplete copy of the talk, which is also available in other copies...

Discrimination, Freedom, Ego, Enemies, Peace
Jun 22 1971
City Center

It Is Actually Buddha's Practice

Sesshin,
Feb 20 1971
Tassajara

Not Sticking to Enlightenment

Serial: SF-05445B

===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #26, by Shundo David Haye =====

It's not completely clear how this talk dropped off the radar, as the tape had been copied and...

Sesshin, Sixth Patriarch, Emptiness
Feb 12 1971
B
City Center

Teisho (Introduced by Jakusho Kwong)

Serial: SF-05452B

Mill Valley Zendo, talk by Suzuki Roshi

Emptiness, Precepts, Observe, Ego, Evil
Dec 23 1970
Mill Valley Zendo

Lay Ordination Ceremony

Serial: SR-00069B

===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #25, by Shundo David Haye =====

This tape, which is unfortunately very poorly recorded, gives us a sense of the lay ordination...

Precepts, Ceremony, Commitment
Aug 23 1970
City Center

To Be Honest And Sincere In Its True Sense It Is Necessary to Push Yourself Into Some Very Strong Hard Rule

Serial: SF-06121B

Sunday, August 16, 1970
San Francisco

[This is the second of two lectures with this date. This lecture began mid-way on Side A of the original tape after a prior...

Faith, Hate, Doubt
Aug 16 1970
B
City Center

Priest Ordination Ceremony: Paul Discoe and Reb Anderson

Serial: SR-00069A

Reprocessed version may allow for clarification of transcript.

Priest, Ceremony, Precepts, Don't Know Mind, Delusion, Greed, Interview,...
Aug 09 1970
City Center

Zazen Practice and Listen to the Right Teacher

Serial: SF-05631

===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #24, by Shundo David Haye =====

In the last years of Suzuki Roshi's life, very few talks were lost from the collections...

Sesshin, Dogen, Bodhidharma, Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Observe, Precepts, Faith...
Aug 03 1970
City Center

Observation of Precepts and Practice of Zazen is Same Thing

Serial: SF-06049

Sesshin Lecture No. 1
Saturday, August 1, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Precepts, Precepts, Doubt, Buddha Nature, Faith, Ceremony, Ordination, Lay,...
Aug 01 1970
City Center

Open Your Intuition

Serial: SF-05587B

Sesshin Meeting
Friday, July 31, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Intuition, Instruction, Beginners
Jul 31 1970
City Center

Ekō Lecture 2

Serial: SR-00229

The Second Morning Eko, Part 1 of 3
Friday Evening, July 10, 1970
Tassajara

[This is the second in a series of six lectures by Suzuki on the four ekos chanted...

Eko, Chanting, Chanting, Anger, Buddha Nature, Mahayana, heart, Karma, Meditation,...
Jul 10 1970
Tassajara

How To Have Sincere Practice

Serial: SR-00145

Suzuki Roshi edited from longer recording.

Building, Community, Meditation, Zendo, Obstacles, Interview, Silence, Breath,...
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, Offering
Apr 25 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, Peace
Mar 28 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

Don't Know Mind, Composure, Diversity, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, training...
Feb 28 1970
City Center

Rules

Dogen, Posture, Balance, Doubt, Faith
Jan 18 1970
City Center

Ordination Ceremony: Bill Kwong and Silas Hoadley

Ceremony, Priest, Ceremony, American
Jan 11 1970
City Center

Shosan Ceremony

Serial: SF-05964

Friday, December 5, 1969

Previously described as intranscribable - now clearer
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File name: 69-12-05N: untitled level low. [Verbatim transcript not...

Ceremony, Shosan, Sixth Patriarch, Big Mind, Letting Go, Separation, Attachment,...
Dec 05 1969
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-6

Serial: SF-06005

Third Lotus Sutra Series
Thursday Evening, October 30, 1969
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Beginner’s Mind, Politics, Interview, Concentration, Precepts, Freedom,...
Oct 30 1969
Series 3, Talk 6
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-5

Serial: SF-06006

Third Lotus Sutra Series
Tuesday Evening, October 28, 1969
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Mahayana, Skandas, Balance
Oct 28 1969
Series 3, Talk 5
Tassajara

Interview of Suzuki by Peter Schneider

Serial: 69-09-16-IB

Entered onto disk by DC 1996 or so
Revised by Bill Redican 9/01

[I dated this 69-09-16 to go with other Peter Schneider interview and lecture of that date....

Interview, First Principle,
Sep 16 1969

On Zen Center History, Personal History, and Nona Ransom

Serial: SF-05610

Interview of Suzuki Roshi by Peter Schneider

Interview, Transmission, Priest, Hate, Suzuki Roshi, training, Enemies, Passions,...
Sep 16 1969
1 of 2

Stand Up By The Ground

Serial: SF-05209

Protection Master "Suzuki Roshi summer sesshin 1969 2nd night lecture

Sesshin, Second Night Lecture
September, 1969
Tassajara

Sesshin, Dogen, Time, Continuous Practice, Freedom, Doubt
Sep 1969
Tassajara

Wherever You Are, Enlightenment Is There

Serial: SF-05184A

Sesshin: First Night Lecture, “I Don't Know Zazen”
September 1969
Tassajara

Knowing that we have buddha nature even while we are in the...

Dogen, Buddha Nature, Enlightenment, Five Ranks, Buddha Nature, Composure, Emotions,...
Sep 1969
Tassajara

Sesshin, Third Night Lecture

Serial: SR-00130

Tassajara
September, 1969

Sesshin, Emptiness, reality, Passions, Intuition, Bell, Forms, American, difficulty...
Sep 1969
Tassajara

Our Practice And Our Everyday Activity

Serial: SF-05396

Saturday, August 30, 1969

Newly uploaded recording should be clearer to transcribe

Concentration, Composure, Gratitude, Fundraising, Posture, training, Faith
Aug 30 1969
Tassajara

Some Questions

Question-and-Answer, Breath, Buddha Nature, Posture, sitting, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
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...
Aug 18 1969
Tassajara

Emptiness is Form

Serial: SF-05968

Sunday, June 29, 1969
San Francisco

Newly uploaded version has speed adjustments made; should be a little clearer for transcript - not just end, but correcting...

Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Current Events, Balance, Faith, Beginners, Continuous...
Jun 29 1969
Tassajara

Yakusan did not give lectures for a long time

Serial: SF-05961

June 1969
Tassajara

Story of Yakusan saying he was not a teacher to give lectures. Making effort, and paying attention. What is right effort?

Priest, Freedom
Jun 1969
Tassajara

Nansen's “Everyday Mind Is Dao”

Truth, Birth-and-Death, Wisdom, zen, Pain, Death, difficulty, Composure, Sutra...
Mar 10 1969

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

Shosan Ceremony

Shosan, First Principle, Emptiness, Compassion, Lotus Sutra, Patience, sitting,...
Nov 11 1968
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-1

Serial: SF-05681

[Second Lotus Sutra series in 1968]
Sunday Evening, October 20, 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Vow, Enemies, Conversation, Karma, Emotions
Oct 20 1968
Tassajara

The True Dragon

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

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-3

Serial: SF-05256

October, 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Lotus Sutra, Silence, Bell, Vow
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 3
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-7

Serial: SF-06043

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness, Mahayana, Precepts, Nirvana, Enemies,...
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 7
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-11

Serial: SF-05251

October 1968
New version uploaded, should help with transcript

Lotus Sutra, Lay, Emptiness, Interview, Ceremony
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 11
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-6

Serial: SF-05258

68-10-00-E

Lotus Sutra, Precepts, Anger, Faith
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 6
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-12

Serial: SR-00004

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. 12
Shunryu Suzuki Lecture

October 1968

Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Suffering, Observe, Compassion, Intention, heart,...
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 12
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-9

Serial: SF-06041

Audio Problem Set has been replaced by original recording, with speed adjustments made.
Newly processed version should be a little clearer to trancsribe

Lotus Sutra, Lotus Sutra, Suzuki Roshi, Demons
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 9
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-4

Serial: SF-05255

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Mahayana, Passions, Attachment, Vow
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 4
Tassajara

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