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Sōtō Zen or the Sōtō school (曹洞宗, Sōtō-shū) is the largest of the three traditional sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism (the others being Rinzai and Ōbaku). It is the Japanese line of the Chinese Cáodòng school, which was founded during the Tang dynasty by Dòngshān Liánjiè. It emphasizes Shikantaza, meditation with no objects, anchors, or content. The meditator strives to be aware of the stream of thoughts, allowing them to arise and pass away without interference.

The Japanese brand of the sect was imported in the 13th century by Dōgen Zenji, who studied Cáodòng Buddhism (Chinese: 曹洞宗; pinyin: Cáodòng Zōng) abroad in China. Dōgen is remembered today as the ancestor of Sōtō Zen in Japan along with Keizan Jōkin.

With about 14,000 temples, Sōtō is one of the largest Japanese Buddhist organizations. Sōtō Zen is now also popular in the West, and in 1996 priests of the Sōtō Zen tradition formed the Soto Zen Buddhist Association based in North America.

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Title	Speaker	Date
Fall to the Ground, Get Up by the Ground Continuous Practice, Discrimination, Birth-and-Death, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 18 2005 Tassajara
On Race Serial: SF-03568 Sesshin 3 Day 7 Diversity, Lay, Hate, Discrimination, Soto Zen, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Bell,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 29 2005 Tassajara
Way Seeking Mind Serial: SF-00044 The route to becoming a zen monk; growing up Jewish and hanging out with the beats; meeting Suzuki Roshi. Monastic Practice, Japan, Way-Seeking Mind, Suzuki Roshi, Monastic Practice, Priest,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 13 2005 2 Tassajara
Two Paths to the Dharma training, Practice Period, Liberation, Bodhidharma, Mahayana, Study Period, Lineage,...	Ryushin Paul Haller, Acharya Gaylon Ferguson	Mar 04 2005
Hokyo Zammai Class Five Ranks, Transmission, Teacher-and-Student, Platform Sutra, Letting Go, Ego,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 02 2005 Tassajara
Shuso Talk Serial: SF-01923 #shuso-talk Sesshin 2 Day 3 Book of Serenity, Suzuki Roshi, Instruction, Offering, Buddha Ancestors, Manjushri,...	Zenshin Greg Fain	Feb 22 2005 Tassajara
Status Serial: SF-01096 Sunday Lecture: status games in conversation, hard-wired, power, humor, reversal of status, Marx Bros, Don Rickles, court fools, Dr Zhivago, improv. changing of roles, status... Ego, Practice Period, Bell, Blue Cliff Record, Half-Smile, Mill Valley, Monastic...	Daigan Lueck	Dec 26 2004 Green Gulch
Buddhism, Christianity, War and Peace Serial: SF-00939 Sunday Lecture: Two types of training: compassion and wisdom (wisdom: the entire universe is the true human body); US history; Christianity (is evil 'outside' or not); Mara... First Principle, Hate, Evil, Faith, Soto Zen, Heart Sutra, Bodhidharma, Separation,...	Fu Schroeder	May 16 2004 Green Gulch
June 7th, 2003, Serial No. 01107 Faith, Vow, Bodhisattva Vow, Suzuki Roshi, Patience, Forgiveness, Practice Period,...	Jeffrey Schneider	Jun 07 2003 Unknown
January 11th, 2003, Serial No. 04074 Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Suzuki Roshi, Priest, Bodhisattva Vow, Soto Zen,...	Lew Richmond	Jan 11 2003 City Center
Posture Posture, Instruction, Branching Streams, Zendo, Zazen, Soto Zen, Birth-and-Death,...	Lew Richmond	Sep 14 2002 Unknown
Vasubandhu Serial: SF-04017 Summer intensive Demons, Subject-and-Object, Letting Go, Separation, Emptiness, Soto Zen, Happiness,...	Teah Strozer	Jul 31 2002 City Center
Vasubandhu Serial: SF-03954 Summer intensive Separation, Emotions, Six Realms, Hate, Soto Zen, Instruction, Karma, Duality, Daily...	Teah Strozer	Jul 21 2002 City Center
Transmission of the Light Class Serial: SF-01088 What brings us to these stories(?)? What is the unrest? What is the transmission of, how does the unrest be calmed (?), impermanence is that essential problem. Stories are what... Transmission, Separation, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness, Five Ranks, Soto Zen, Dragons...	Daigan Lueck	May 21 2002 Green Gulch
August 18th, 2001, Serial No. 03921 Soto Zen, Suzuki Roshi, Subject-and-Object, Lineage, Bowing, Silence, Duality, Birth-...	Teah Strozer	Aug 18 2001 City Center
2001.01.03-serial.00066 Soto Zen, Five Ranks, Emptiness, Nirvana, Renunciation, Oneness, Suzuki Roshi,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Jan 03 2001
Tenzo Kyokun Class Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Don't Know Mind, Mindfulness, realization, Mill...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 07 2000 Green Gulch
Genjo Koan Serial: SF-00117 Workshop Karma, Five Ranks, Soto Zen, Dharma Transmission, true dharma, Transmission, Politics...	Shohaku Okumura	Nov 04 2000 1 of 4 City Center
Sunday Lecture Big Mind, Six Realms, Ceremony, Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Buddha Ancestors, Soto...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Oct 29 2000 Green Gulch
Tenzo Kyokun Class true dharma, Practice Period, Instruction, Soto Zen, Zendo, Suzuki Roshi, Big Mind,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Oct 24 2000 Green Gulch
Sunday Lecture Fox, causation, Karma, Nirvana, Soto Zen, Funeral, Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Ceremony,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Sep 10 2000 Green Gulch
Sunday Lecture Monastic Practice, Zazen, Religion, Commitment, Big Mind, Buddha Ancestors, Soto Zen...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Aug 20 2000 Green Gulch
Women Ancestors Lineage, Transmission, Soto Zen, realization, Priest-and-Lay, Emptiness, Ceremony,...	Various	May 13 2000 1
Women Ancestors Lineage, Ordination, Soto Zen, Bodhisattva Vow, Funeral, Obstacles, Gratitude,...	Various	May 13 2000 2
Women Ancestors Monastic Practice, Ego, Chanting, Lineage, Letting Go, Conversation, Ceremony, Soto...	Various	May 13 2000 3
Fukanzazengi Class Serial: SF-03654 Monday Class Zazen, Instruction, Soto Zen, Posture, realization, Dragons, Lineage, Suzuki Roshi,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Mar 27 2000 Green Gulch
Works of Dogen Class Serial: SF-03196 Tuesday Class Birth-and-Death, realization, Freedom, Letting Go, Suzuki Roshi, Bowing, Soto Zen,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Feb 29 2000 Green Gulch
Fukanzazengi Class Serial: SF-03517 Monday Class Hsin Hsin Ming, Buddha Nature, confusion, Platform Sutra, realization, Bodhisattva...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Feb 28 2000 Green Gulch
One-day Sitting Lecture realization, Buddha Ancestors, Demons, Practice Period, Heart Sutra, Bell, Suzuki...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Feb 26 2000 Green Gulch
Fukanzazengi Class Serial: SF-03661 Monday Class Ceremony, Soto Zen, true dharma, Instruction, realization, Practice Period, Posture,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Feb 21 2000 Green Gulch
Sunday Lecture Ceremony, Instruction, Letting Go, Practice Period, Delusion, Zazen, Family Practice...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Feb 20 2000 Green Gulch
December 7th, 1999, Serial No. 03951 Letting Go, Emptiness, Zazen, Mindfulness, Karma, Faith, Soto Zen, Chanting, Lineage...	Teah Strozer	Dec 07 1999 City Center
October 23rd, 1999, Serial No. 01114 realization, Blue Cliff Record, Faith, Soto Zen, Religion, Peace, Sangha, resistance...	Jeffrey Schneider	Oct 23 1999 Unknown
Wednesday Lecture Bowing, Emptiness, Koan, Suzuki Roshi, Soto Zen, Chanting, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Teah Strozer	Oct 06 1999 City Center
Intensive Class Delusion, Intimacy, Don't Know Mind, realization, Chanting, Aspects of Practice...	Ryushin Paul Haller	Aug 09 1999 City Center
AIDS Bike-A-Thon, A Rolling Sesshin Serial: SF-03983 Wednesday Lecture training, Daily Life, Soto Zen, Suzuki Roshi, Non-duality, Duality, Gratitude,...	Teah Strozer	Jun 23 1999 City Center
1999.03.03-serial.00147 Serial: SF-00147 Wednesday night dharma talk Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Fundraising, Daily Life, Impermanence, Monastic...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Mar 03 1999 Green Gulch Farm
Eight Characteristics of Suzuki Roshi's Teaching Serial: SF-03137 Sunday Lecture - first Sunday of practice period Suzuki Roshi, Impermanence, Commitment, Vow, Lineage, Buddha Nature, Freedom, Faith,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Feb 21 1999 Green Gulch

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