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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,...
Mar 13 2005
2
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra Class

Serial: SF-03484

Dining Room Class

Dragons, Lotus Sutra, Manjushri, Mahayana, Emptiness, Hindrances, Diversity,...
Nov 27 2004
Tassajara

Sesshin Lecture

Serial: SF-03548

Second Sesshin, Zendo Lecture

Lotus Sutra, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Emotions, Emptiness, Freedom, training,...
Nov 16 2004
Tassajara

Women Ancestors Class

Precepts, Three Treasures, Lay, Sangha, Mahayana, Sanctuary, Addiction, Hate,...
Aug 22 2000
Unknown

Women Ancestors Class

Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Lay, Ceremony, Silence, Freedom, Practice Period,...
Aug 15 2000
Unknown

Women Ancestors Class

Nirvana, Peace, Four Noble Truths, Ordination, Funeral, Demons, Lay, Happiness,...
Aug 08 2000
Unknown

Sesshin Lecture

Suzuki Roshi, Practice Period, Zazen, Monkey Mind, Chanting, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Apr 10 2000
Green Gulch

Wednesday Lecture

Study Period, Birth-and-Death, Book of Serenity, Mill Valley, Buddha Mind, Enemies,...
Aug 04 1999
Green Gulch

One-day Sitting Lecture

Suzuki Roshi, training, Letting Go, Nirvana Sutra, Vow, Ceremony, Monastic Practice,...
Feb 27 1999
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Four Noble Truths, Anger, Ordination, Right Effort, Right Speech, Letting Go, Peace,...
Jul 12 1998
Green Gulch

One-day Sitting Lecture

Zazen, Bodhisattva Vow, Lay, Letting Go, training, Diversity, Nirvana, Posture,...
Oct 25 1997
Green Gulch

Precepts Class

Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Priest, Ceremony, Vow, Ordination, Lay, Mahayana,...
Oct 20 1997
Green Gulch

Majjhima Nikaya

Mindfulness, Hindrances, Evil, Liberation, Soto Zen, Lay, Doubt, Faith, Daily Life,...
Jul 10 1997
Green Gulch

Think Neither Good Nor Bad

Sangha, resistance, Suzuki Roshi, Anger, Nirvana, Offering, Lay, confusion, Peace...
Apr 30 1997
Unknown

Recollections of Early Zen

Lotus Sutra, Precepts, Priest, training, Lineage, Lay, Zendo, Rinzai, Fox, Demons...
Feb 08 1997
1 of 3
Green Gulch Farm

Making Distinctions

Serial: SF-03113

Sunday Lecture

Balance, Hsin Hsin Ming, Suzuki Roshi, Lay, training, Conversation, Emotions,...
Aug 11 1996
Green Gulch

Refuge in the Triple Treasure

Three Treasures, Monastic Practice, Lay Practice, Priest-and-Lay, Ceremony, Lay,...
May 22 1996
Unknown

Women in Buddhism Class

Nirvana, Religion, New Year, Conversation, Lay, causation, Freedom, Intimacy, Demons...
Nov 27 1995
Unknown

Women in Buddhism Class

Six Realms, Offering, Balance, Conversation, Ordination, Teacher-and-Student, Don...
Nov 20 1995
Unknown

Women in Buddhism Class

Lotus Sutra, Mahayana, Buddha Nature, Six Realms, Instruction, Lay, Religion, Balance...
Nov 13 1995
Unknown

Women in Buddhism Class

Emptiness, Balance, Liberation, Nirvana, Lay, Heart Sutra, Religion, Mahayana, Birth-...
Nov 06 1995
Unknown

Women in Buddhism

Serial: SF-00153

Class

Religion, Discrimination, Priest, Ceremony, Bodhisattva Vow, Buddha Nature, Ego,...
Oct 23 1995
1 of 6
Green Gulch Farm

Tokubetsu Sesshin

Faith, Ceremony, Big Mind, true dharma, Transmission, Monastic Practice, Emotions,...
Mar 28 1995

Tokubetsu Sesshin

Soto Zen, Ceremony, Transmission, Precepts, Instruction, Subject-and-Object,...
Mar 15 1995

To Be Oneself

Serial: SF-00157

Sunday talk; what does that mean - what's that? Finding out what this means is a vast undertaking.

Conversation, Practice Period, Dragons, Lay, New Year, training, Separation, Skandas...
Jan 15 1995
Green Gulch Farm

The Meeting of American Culture and Buddhism

Serial: SF-00103

Lecture Series

Right Speech, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Fox, Half-Smile, Lay, Emptiness,...
Mar 01 1994
City Center

Women in Japanese Soto Zen

Serial: SF-00097

Author reading from her book on the subject.

Soto Zen, training, Monastic Practice, Ordination, Ceremony, Religion, Lay, Emptiness...
Nov 25 1992

Sunday Lecture

Observe, Cultivation, Balance, Fox, Conversation, Don't Know Mind, Emptiness,...
Feb 09 1992
Green Gulch

Practice Life

Serial: SF-00102

Talk given at Berkeley per introduction.

Teacher-and-Student, Daily Life, Buddha Nature, Posture, resistance, Suzuki Roshi,...
Aug 07 1983

The Nature of the Precepts

Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Mahayana, realization, Lay, Sangha, Bodhidharma,...
Aug 03 1983
1

Poetry, Love, and Spiritual Rebellion

Lay, Ordinary Mind, Passions, Bodhisattva Vow, Emptiness, Commitment, Balance,...
Sep 28 1981

Application of the Practice - Feminism and Buddhism in the Diamond Sangha

Emptiness, Lineage, Aspects of Practice, Bodhisattva Vow, Heart Sutra, Sangha,...
Aug 14 1981
2

Application of the Practice - Feminism and Buddhism in the Diamond Sangha

Emptiness, Aspects of Practice, Lineage, Separation, Sangha, Monastic Practice, Lay,...
Aug 14 1981
1

Hakuin

Bodhidharma, Demons, training, Greed, Concentration, Passions, Bell, Lay, Hate...
Mar 23 1978
Tassajara

Seminar on Prajna

Serial: SF-00019

Prajna is beyond words and inexpressible; Joshu, Daishi and the broom; achieving the knowledge of not-knowledge.

Duality, Mahayana, Lay, Cultivation, Concentration, Attachment, Vow, Freedom, Doubt...
May 24 1975

Beyond Belief: Unveiling Hidden Truths

Serial: SF-00124

Differences between exoteric and esoteric religious traditions.

Religion, Evil, Suzuki Roshi, Subject-and-Object, Intuition, Nirvana, Separation,...
Jul 18 1973
1

The Monastic Tradition

Serial: SF-00131

How to deal with peak experiences in our lives.

Monastic Practice, Silence, Gratitude, Evil, Cultivation, Conversation, Lay,...
Feb 26 1973

San-Pachi-Nenju

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

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

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

Shuso Ceremony

Serial: SF-05143C

SR023 Last 2/3 side 2 Philip's discussion ceremony - copied 2 tapes [there are also photographs of hand-written notes on missing portions of Q&A - per tape operator...

Sesshin, Shuso Ceremony, Big Mind, Bell, Bodhidharma, Gratitude, Buddha Nature,...
Apr 23 1968
C
Tassajara

The Way-Seeking Mind

Serial: SF-05116C

March sesshin, only 1pm lecture. Evening lecture goofed up during recording.
SR 007

Dogen, Forgiveness, Addiction, Greed, Interview, Attachment, Conversation, Lay...
Mar 26 1966
A
Sokoji

On Nanshin-Ken, Sokatsu-Shaku

Serial: SF-01128

Tape 2 copy 2 - duplicate

Time, Lay, Priest
Feb 22 1966
Kyoto

Seminar on Taoism

Serial: SR-00275A

Alan Watts on Taoism, session 1

Forms, Silence, Obstacles, Lay, Bell, Continuous Practice, Consciousness, Breath...
A
Unknown

Seminar on Taoism

Serial: SR-00275B

Alan Watts talk - session 2

Consciousness, Pain, heart, Forms, Hate, zen, Zoom, Obstacles, Ego, Lay
B
Unknown

On Sokei-An, Harada-Roshi, Yasutani-Roshi

Serial: SF-01123

Tape 5 copy 2 - duplicate

Time, Priest, Lay
Kyoto