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| 7/26/1965 | Chant | End Chant | 65-07-26-A | why we should practice zazen/ A talk is always-- the conclusion of my talk is always why we should practice ... |
| 7/28/1965 | Comment | Baker - Starting Comment | 65-07-28-D | questions/ SR: I cannot think of anything to talk [about] for this evening. So if you have ... |
| 7/29/1965 | Comment | Baker - Starting Comment | 65-07-29-A | Purpose of practice is to have direct experience of buddha/ SR: Purpose of practice is to have direct experience of buddha-nature. That ... |
| 7/29/1965 | Comment | Baker - Starting Comment | 65-07-29-C | some more questions/ SR: Do you have some question-- some more question? Student A: Roshi, would ... |
| 7/30/1965 | Other Audio | bell | 65-07-30-A | Don't be bothered by your mind/ Don't be bothered by your mind. ______________________ Source: City Center ... |
| 7/30/1965 | Comment | Baker - Starting Comment | 65-07-30-C | If you have a question/ SR: If you have a question, please give me. I want to answer about what I told ... |
| 7/31/1965 | Chant | End Chant [no letter on E-chant file] | 65-07-31 | untitled/Tape operator (Richard Baker): Saturday night lecture, beginning at 6:15, by either ... |
| 8/28/1965 | Comment | Baker - Starting Comment | 65-08-28-A | Confucius said the most visible is something invisible/ Tape operator: This is the beginning of the-- it will be that we missed this ... |
| 8/28/1965 | Comment | Baker - End Comment | 65-08-28-B | I have nothing in my mind/ [Tape operator (Richard Baker): This is the end of the one o'clock lecture. ... |
| 8/28/1965 | Comment | Baker - Starting Comment | 65-08-28-B | I have nothing in my mind/ [Tape operator (Richard Baker): This is the end of the one o'clock lecture. ... |
| 12/11/1965 | Comment | Beginning Comments | 65-12-11-A | Most of you are beginners/ Most of you are beginners, so it may be rather difficult why we practice zazen ... |
| 1/21/1966 | Comment | Baker - Starting Comment | 66-01-21-A | Shushogi, Sections 11–17/ The next chapter1 which we will learn is about precepts. And this ... |
| 1/21/1966 | Comment | Baker - End Comment | 66-01-21-BN | In the Prajnaparamita Sutra/In Prajnaparamita Sutra, which we recite every morning and evening, it says, “No ... |
| 3/13/1966 | Comment | Claude Comment | 66-03-13-B | Shushogi, Section 1/ We started to recite Lotus Sutra-- Shushogi. Shushogi is the-- consist of various ... |
| 3/13/1966 | Chant | Heart Sutra | 66-03-13-B | Shushogi, Section 1/ We started to recite Lotus Sutra-- Shushogi. Shushogi is the-- consist of various ... |
| 8/15/1966 | Comment | Baker - Notes | 66-08-15 | Richard Baker commenting on tape confusion/ This is a rather mixed-up lecture, with this lecture, which I've called on the ... |
| 8/15/1966 | Comment | Baker - End Comment | 66-08-15-D | The first day of the sesshin is almost finished/ The first day of the sesshin is almost finished. In the first day, I wanted you ... |
| 8/18/1966 | Comment | Baker - End Comment | 66-08-18-A | This is the fourth day of our sesshin/ Tape operator: As I've said already, this machine has an idiosyncratic quality ... |
| 12/17/1966 | Other Audio | Silas-intro | 66-12-17-A | In the first instruction of ten instructions in Gakudo-yojin-shu/ In the first instruction of ten instructions in Gakudo-yojin-shu,1 ... |
| 9/8/1967 | Chant | 67-09-08-B | Using Various Stones/ Tonight I want to give you some correct idea of Buddhism or Zen. In a word, Zen ... | |
| 9/8/1967 | Chant | End Chant | 67-09-08-B | Using Various Stones/ Tonight I want to give you some correct idea of Buddhism or Zen. In a word, Zen ... |
| 9/12/1967 | Chant | End Chant | 67-09-12 | The Practice of Constancy/In the last lecture we studied two Prajna Paramita of the six Prajna Paramita which ... |
| 10/1/1967 | Chant | 67-10-00 | if our teaching is a special teaching/Someone asked me this evening, and that—if our teaching is special teaching which ... | |
| 12/7/1967 | Ceremony | 67-12-07 | Shosan Ceremony at Tassajara/ Buddha-- although Buddha started teaching at Varanasi,1 but actually ... | |
| 2/1/1968 | Chant | End Chant | 68-02-00-A | Lotus Sūtra No. I-1/ During Sesshin the Lotus Sutra will not be appropriate for the lecture, but I ... |
| 7/24/1968 | Chant | End Chant with bells-han | 68-07-24 | To have complete understanding of our school/ To have complete understanding of our school or-- is at the same time-- to unders- ... |
| 10/12/1968 | Chant | chant-inc | 68-10-12-A | Shikantaza, Tenryu's One Finger/ I want to explain our way-- our way of zazen. Do you know-- you know the famous ... |
| 10/21/1968 | Chant | End Chant | 68-10-21 | Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-2/ [The Lotus Sutra] -- which was [not] told by a historical Buddha. But some people ... |
| 10/30/1968 | Comment | Claude Comment | 68-10-00-H | Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-9/ Zen butso ??? assembled and sitting together in that ??? monks, nuns, male and ... |
| 10/30/1968 | Chant | 68-10-00-H | Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-9/ Zen butso ??? assembled and sitting together in that ??? monks, nuns, male and ... | |
| 12/24/1968 | Chant | End Chant | 68-12-24 | On The Parable of the Burning House/… second point. And in the third [possible gap here?] the Buddha addressed to ... |
| 3/10/1969 | Other Audio | fragment | 69-03-10 | Nansen's “Everyday Mind Is Dao”/ -- it was very, very cold. It was November? I don't remember exactly. November ... |
| 6/22/1969 | Chant | End Chant with bells | 69-06-22 | Direct Experience of Reality/ Dogen Zenji says: “Everything is encourages us to attain enlightenment. Mountains ... |
| 7/1/1969 | Chant | End Chant | 69-07-00 | Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen/ In-- in America, between Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen there-- there must be some clear ... |
| 7/1/1969 | Chant | 69-07-00 | Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen/ In-- in America, between Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen there-- there must be some clear ... | |
| 7/8/1969 | Chant | End Chant | 69-07-08 | Question And Answer Session/ SR: Tonight I have nothing special which I want to talk [about]. Of course, ... |
| 7/11/1969 | Ceremony | 69-07-11 | Eulogy For Trudy Dixon Given During Her Funeral Ceremony/ Go, my disciple Sesshin Baiho [?]. You have completed your practice for this ... | |
| 7/15/1969 | Chant | End Chant | 69-07-15 | I have nothing in my mind/ Again, I have nothing in my mind [laughs, laughter]. I think I want you to hit ... |
| 7/20/1969 | Chant | 69-07-20 | Enjoy Your Life/ If you go to some library you will see many books. And those-- in those books, ... | |
| 8/1/1969 | Chant | 69-08-01 | the most important precept/ As a Buddhist, of course, the most important precept is to-- to believe in Buddha ... | |
| 8/6/1969 | Chant | 69-08-06 | To Actually Practice Selflessness/ I think you are facing actual problem in your zazen practice. The worst one may ... | |
| 8/6/1969 | Chant | End Chant | 69-08-06 | To Actually Practice Selflessness/ I think you are facing actual problem in your zazen practice. The worst one may ... |
| 8/7/1969 | Chant | End Chant | 69-08-07 | Not Always So/ [In] Buddhist scripture, you know, there is a famous story. Water is same, but-- ... |
| 8/12/1969 | Chant | End Chant | 69-08-12 | some questions/ [I did not]1 prepare for tonight lecture anything. So I want you to ... |
| 8/28/1969 | Other Audio | End fragment | 69-08-28 | Questions And Answers/ SR: I want you to ask me a question. [Laughs.] I have nothing in my mind to ... |
| 11/16/1969 | Chant | End Chant | 69-11-16 | Epilogue: Zen Mind/ This morning, I want to talk about our practice. And here in America, something ... |
| 11/25/1969 | Other Audio | Katagiri-rōshi | 69-11-25 | pinch hitter/ SR: I am very happy to be with you. I am rather tired, and pinch hitter1 ... |
| 12/21/1969 | Chant | End Chant | 69-12-21-A | Fundamental Buddhist Point: To Adjust Ourselves To Our Surroundings/ Since I moved in this building, people ask me how do you feel [laughs]. But ... |
| 1/4/1970 | Chant | End Chant | 70-01-04 | Respect for Things/ In our zazen practice, we stop our thinking and we must be free from our emotional ... |
| 1/18/1970 | Chant | 70-01-18 | Rules/ In Japan now it is a season of typhoon. And recently, on the 16th, a typhoon ... | |
| 1/25/1970 | Chant | 70-01-25 | Caring for the Soil/ The difference between so-called-it Theravada Buddhism and Sarvastivadian or ... | |
| 1/25/1970 | Chant | End Chant | 70-01-25 | Caring for the Soil/ The difference between so-called-it Theravada Buddhism and Sarvastivadian or ... |
| 2/1/1970 | Chant | 70-02-01-B | each one of us is a cook/ Sesshin is almost-- sesshin has almost completed. In this sesshin, we have learned ... | |
| 2/28/1970 | Chant | various chants | 70-02-28 | Practice To Be Like A Stone/ Before we sit, six-day sesshin was too long. But after we completed, it was too ... |
| 3/1/1970 | Comment | Beginning Comments | 70-03-01 | Lecture To Prof. Lewis R. Lancaster's Visiting Class/ Actually, because of my bad throat, I don't speak for people outside, you know. ... |
| 3/8/1970 | Chant | End Chant | 70-03-08 | Letters From Emptiness/ [Recently my thought is concentrated on the idea of emptiness.]1 Whatever ... |
| 4/25/1970 | Ceremony | 70-04-25 | Remarks at the Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind Temple/ Suzuki (speaking formally): On this day of the opening of Mahabodhisattva Zendo ... | |
| 4/25/1970 | Ceremony | 70-04-25A | How To Have Sincere Practice/We … yesterday, our President was expressing great gratitude, and that word -- ... | |
| 5/2/1970 | Chant | End Chant | 70-05-02-B | Helping Others/ First of all, a sincere-- our practice-- sincere practice-- our sincere practice ... |
| 5/5/1970 | Chant | End Chant | 70-05-05 | we try to control or restrict our activity/ Once a time of one thousand or two thousand is not so long time in comparison ... |
| 5/10/1970 | Chant | End Chant | 70-05-10 | Zen Center and City Practice/ This morning I want to reflect on our long, long practice, which we started maybe ... |
| 5/17/1970 | Chant | End Chant | 70-05-17 | How To Observe Precepts/ This morning I want to talk about Zen-- Zen precepts. As you know, precepts is ... |
| 5/24/1970 | Chant | End Chant / Announcement | 70-05-24 | Money And Labor/ Good morning. Actually this morning I asked Yoshida Roshi to give some talk to ... |
| 5/27/1970 | Other Audio | Reb intro | 70-05-27 | Things-As-It-Is/ I am so grateful to have chance to discuss about or to talk about Sandokai. This ... |
| 6/3/1970 | Chant | End Chant | 70-06-03 | The Blue Jay Will Come Right into Your Heart/ Line 9 The five sense gates and the five sense objects Line 10 ... |
| 6/6/1970 | Chant | End Chant | 70-06-06 | We Are Just a Tiny Speck of Big Being/ Purpose of study of Buddhism is to have perfect understanding of things, and ... |
| 7/11/1970 | Chant | End Chant | 70-07-11 | Eko Lecture 3/ Dedication for the Morning Service Arhat's Sutra Line 1. May Buddha observe ... |
| 7/19/1970 | Chant | End Chant | 70-07-19 | Japanese Way, American Way, Buddhist Way/ After-- after forty days of my leaving from here I feel I am a stranger to the ... |
| 7/26/1970 | Chant | End Chant | 70-07-26 | Mudra Practice and How to Accept Instructions from Various Teachers/ This morning, I want to talk about our practice, as usual [laughs], as-- especially ... |
| 7/28/1970 | Chant | End Chant | 70-07-28 | How To Understand Rituals And Precepts/ This evening I want to talk about some problems you have when you come to Zen ... |
| 7/31/1970 | Other Audio | sesshin rules-DW | 70-07-31 | Open Your Intuition/ -- [laughter]. What he-- she meant is if you stand up, you know, with painful ... |
| 8/4/1970 | Chant | End Chant | 70-08-04 | our practice is expression of our true buddha-mind/ In-- in everyday life, to observe precepts and, in our practice, to continue ... |
| 8/16/1970 | Chant | 70-08-16-A | restore the Buddhist teaching in its original way/ -- restore the Buddhist teaching in its original way. So that you don't ... | |
| 8/25/1970 | Chant | End Chant | 70-08-25-A | when someone receives transmission/ As some of-- some of you may know, tomorrow I am leaving San Francisco for-- ... |
| 12/13/1970 | Chant | End Chant | 70-12-13 | Japan Now: Zazen As Our Foundation/ In this trip, I studied in Japan [laughs], you know, and I found out many things, ... |
| 12/20/1970 | Chant | 70-12-20 | What Is Self? What Is Our Practice?/ In my last trip to Japan I found out many things. The feeling I had there was-- ... | |
| 12/23/1970 | Comment | Beginning Comments and Chant | 70-12-23 | Teisho (Introduced by Jakusho Kwong)/ Zazen-- zazen practice, for us, more and more become important. Nowadays, as ... |
| 12/23/1970 | Other Audio | talk & chants | 70-12-23 | Teisho (Introduced by Jakusho Kwong)/ Zazen-- zazen practice, for us, more and more become important. Nowadays, as ... |
| 2/7/1971 | Chant | 71-02-07 | Wherever you go, you will see yourself/ This morning I said you must find yourself in each being. That is actually what ... | |
| 2/7/1971 | Chant | End Chant | 71-02-07 | Wherever you go, you will see yourself/ This morning I said you must find yourself in each being. That is actually what ... |
| 2/9/1971 | Chant | End Chant | 71-02-09 | humor is more real than reality/ I think, as Yoshimura Sensei told you the other night, Zen masters has some humorous ... |
| 2/12/1971 | Chant | 71-02-12-A | Just Enough Problems/ This is the seventh day of the sesshin, and you came already too far. So you ... | |
| 2/12/1971 | Other Audio | talk & chants | 71-02-12-A | Just Enough Problems/ This is the seventh day of the sesshin, and you came already too far. So you ... |
| 2/13/1971 | Chant | End Chant | 71-02-13 | calmness of your mind/ Good morning. We have been practicing sesshin, so I feel I didn't see some ... |
| 6/9/1971 | Chant | Universal Eko followed by the four vows in Japanese then English. | 71-06-09 | Freedom from Everything/ I think you, you know, have understood-- (Can you hear me? Yeah? Not so well. ... |
| 8/21/1971 | Other Audio | talk & chants | 71-08-21 | Wherever you are, we have Zen way of practice/ Excuse me. [Laughs.] I feel rather stiff. Maybe I worked too hard. Since ... |
| 12/12/1971 | Ceremony | 71-12-12 | funeral/ | |