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Zoketsu Norman Fischer Talks
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            25 Years of Green GulchSerial: SF-03245   Sunday Lecture  Gratitude, Bell, Commitment, Suzuki Roshi, Mill Valley, Ceremony, Teacher-and-Student...            | 
                  
             Sep 20 1998 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Sunday Lecture Blue Cliff Record, Bodhidharma, Commitment, Priest, Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature,...            | 
                  
             Aug 30 1998 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Eight Social Practices of the BuddhaSerial: SF-03230   One-day sitting lecture: 1 - Guided meditation; 2 - eight ways of activity and cultivation: 1-4 inward, 5-8 ways to be in the world; four unlimited practices  Letting Go, Happiness, Cultivation, Monastic Practice, Equanimity, Peace,...            | 
                  
             Jul 20 1998 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Sunday Lecture Four Noble Truths, Anger, Ordination, Right Effort, Right Speech, Letting Go, Peace,...            | 
                  
             Jul 12 1998 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Father's Day Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Ceremony, Hate, Bodhisattva Precepts, Freedom,...            | 
                  
             Jun 21 1998 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Sunday Lecture Heart Sutra, Mindfulness, Religion, Koan, Letting Go, Fundraising            | 
                  
             May 17 1998 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Buddha's Birthday Buddha's Birthday, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center            | 
                  
             Apr 05 1998 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Just Let GoSerial: SF-03109   Sunday Lecture: (According to the Buddha), the way to be happy is simple: just let go. Letting go is hard to do. Human mind wants to hold. We could say we are nothing but...  Letting Go, Buddha's Birthday, Blue Cliff Record, Attachment, Freedom, Faith,...            | 
                  
             Mar 08 1998 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Sunday Lecture Letting Go, Monastic Practice, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Karma, Practice Period...            | 
                  
             Feb 01 1998 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Scholarship Conference PaperSerial: SF-03238   Sunday Lecture  Heart Sutra, Lineage, Platform Sutra, Soto Zen, Religion, Study Period, Emptiness,...            | 
                  
             Nov 16 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            One-day Sitting Lecture Manjushri, Bodhisattva Precepts, Precepts, Blue Cliff Record, Sangha, Practice Period...            | 
                  
             Nov 15 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            One-day Sitting Lecture Zazen, Lay, Letting Go, Diversity, Nirvana, Posture, Attachment, Delusion            | 
                  
             Oct 25 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Blue Cliff Record ClassSerial: SF-03092   Case 10  Silence, Birth-and-Death, Interview, Rinzai, Soto Zen, Funeral, Book of Serenity,...            | 
                  
             Oct 21 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Chao Chou's Four GatesSerial: SF-03239   Sunday Lecture: case 9 of the Blue Cliff Record: "What is Chao Chou?" "East gate, west gate, south gate, north gate"  Practice Period, Ordinary Mind, Buddha Nature, Blue Cliff Record, Suzuki Roshi,...            | 
                  
             Oct 19 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Majjhima Nikaya ClassSerial: SF-03195   Middle-length Discourses  Attachment, Addiction, Mindfulness, confusion, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness, Zazen,...            | 
                  
             Oct 14 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Sunday LectureSerial: SF-03240   Date on box 10-19-97, date on cassette 10-12-97, not corrected  Commitment, Priest, Zazen, Peace, Observe, Concentration, Passions, confusion,...            | 
                  
             Oct 12 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Majjhima Nikaya ClassSerial: SF-03194   Middle-length Discourses  Attachment, Evil, Delusion, Hate, confusion, Don't Know Mind, Observe, Letting...            | 
                  
             Oct 07 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Majjhima Nikaya ClassSerial: SF-03192   Middle-length Discourses  Evil, Letting Go, Birth-and-Death, Karma, Faith, Precepts, Liberation, Karmic...            | 
                  
             Sep 23 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Majjhima Nikaya ClassSerial: SF-03222   Middle-length Discourses  Impermanence, Passions, Karma, Faith, Nirvana, Letting Go, Offering, Attachment,...            | 
                  
             Sep 15 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Majjhima Nikaya ClassSerial: SF-03224   Middle-length Discourses  Buddha Ancestors, Manjushri, Letting Go, Perfect Wisdom, Teacher-and-Student,...            | 
                  
             Sep 09 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            The Practice of Morality in BuddhismSerial: SF-03099   Sunday Lecture  Precepts, Ceremony, Letting Go, Gratitude, Commitment, Right Speech, Lineage,...            | 
                  
             Jul 13 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Majjhima Nikaya Mindfulness, Hindrances, Evil, Liberation, Soto Zen, Lay, Doubt, Faith, Daily Life,...            | 
                  
             Jul 10 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Majjhima Nikaya Evil, Liberation, Greed, Renunciation, confusion, Hate, Enemies, Delusion, Precepts...            | 
                  
             Jul 08 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Sunday Lecture Delusion, Letting Go, Freedom, Realization, Ego, Don't Know Mind, Zazen,...            | 
                  
             Jun 22 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Genjo Koan workshop Emotions, Daily Life, Passions, Emptiness, Interview, Instruction, Happiness,...            | 
                  
             Jun 15 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Genjo Koan workshopSerial: SF-03185   To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion, that myriad...' Delusion itself is the agency of my enlightenment; totally enter delusion and embrace it and...  Delusion, Realization, Precepts, Emotions, Subject-and-Object, Monastic Practice,...            | 
                  
             Jun 14 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Genjo Koan workshopSerial: SF-03175   Presentation and discussion of the first four lines of Genjo Koan  Delusion, Letting Go, Birth-and-Death, Realization, Attachment, Discrimination, Hate...            | 
                  
             Jun 14 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Genjo Koan workshop Birth-and-Death, Attachment, Letting Go, Dependent Origination, Separation, Funeral,...            | 
                  
             Jun 14 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Mothers' DaySerial: SF-03101   Sunday Lecture: being born from a mother guarantees two ingredients, a bit of love and suffering, both necessary for enlightenment. The essential point of zen is questioning;...  Manjushri, Commitment, Karma, Four Noble Truths, Letting Go, Religion, Buddha's...            | 
                  
             May 11 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Buddha's BirthdaySerial: SF-03098   Sunday Lecture  Buddha's Birthday, Ceremony, Bell, Heart Sutra, Humility, Chanting, Renewal,...            | 
                  
             Apr 06 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            No Species Is Only ItselfSerial: SF-03103   Sunday Lecture: Tigers are awesome, unchained wildness; species are disappearing; every species exists as an important factor in the world of many other species; for humans,...  Forgiveness, Dream World, Mindfulness, Ego, Four Foundations of Mindfulness,...            | 
                  
             Mar 02 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Poetry of EnlightenmentSerial: SF-00071   Class  Realization, Emptiness, Dragons, Balance, Bell, Priest, Emotions, Freedom, Doubt...            | 
                  
             Feb 04 1997 1            | 
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            Song of Jewel Mirror SamadhiSerial: SF-00072   5:00 class  Buddha Ancestors, Four Noble Truths, Absolute-and-Relative, Emptiness, Samadhi,...            | 
                  
             Feb 04 1997            | 
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            On Breath and BreathingSerial: SF-03114   Sunday Lecture - if you pick up one piece of dust, the whole universe comes with it  Emotions, Mindfulness, Four Noble Truths, confusion, Hindrances, Funeral, Interview,...            | 
                  
             Jan 12 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Mindfulness SutraSerial: SF-00069   January PP Class; introduction of Mindfulness Sutra; quotes from Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman; Walden and Leaves of Grass.  Mindfulness, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Four Noble Truths, Forgiveness,...            | 
                  
             Jan 08 1997 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            SandokaiSerial: SF-03106   Sunday Lecture  Manjushri, Samadhi, Oneness, confusion, Darkness-and-Light, Perfect Wisdom, Intimacy...            | 
                  
             Dec 01 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Sandokai Class Evil, Religion, Funeral, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Discrimination, Suzuki Roshi...            | 
                  
             Nov 25 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Sandokai ClassSerial: SF-03177   Like forward and backwards steps - phenomenon exist like box and cover joining, principle accords like arrows points meeting  Oneness, Suzuki Roshi, Absolute-and-Relative, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain...            | 
                  
             Nov 19 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Lessons From the Movie 'Secrets and Lies'Serial: SF-03215   One-day sitting  Mindfulness, Commitment, Practice Period, Equanimity, Emotions, Letting Go, Posture,...            | 
                  
             Nov 16 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Sandokai Class Oneness, Darkness-and-Light, Practice Period, Separation, Karma, Emptiness, Politics...            | 
                  
             Nov 13 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Sandokai Class Discrimination, Oneness, Darkness-and-Light, Letting Go, Branching Streams,...            | 
                  
             Nov 05 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Sandokai Class Oneness, Interdependence, Branching Streams, Light-and-Darkness, Politics, Delusion,...            | 
                  
             Oct 29 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Which is the Real Shin?Serial: SF-03135   Sunday Lecture - Seeing and understanding desire  Ceremony, Forgiveness, Addiction, Practice Period, Demons, confusion, Hate,...            | 
                  
             Oct 27 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Being Open To Life's Process As It IsSerial: SF-03216   One-day sitting  Posture, Intimacy, Zazen, Ego, Greed, Concentration, Instruction, confusion            | 
                  
             Oct 19 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Including The UnincludedSerial: SF-03136   Sunday Lecture - life, the path as the neverending journey of inclusiom that starts with ourselves where we are now, where we have been and from there just goes deep and deeper...  Forgiveness, Practice Period, Silence, Offering, Anger, Diversity, Ordination, Peace...            | 
                  
             Oct 13 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Jewel Mirror Samadhi Class Five Ranks, Delusion, Lotus Sutra, Soto Zen, Observe, Forgiveness, Separation,...            | 
                  
             Oct 07 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Jewel Mirror Samadhi Class Five Ranks, Delusion, Absolute-and-Relative, Attachment, Emptiness, Soto Zen, Right...            | 
                  
             Oct 03 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            The Eight Stages of Monastic LifeSerial: SF-03132   Sunday Lecture - monastic way of wholeness, a sacred way, a sacred place, a clear pace that lives at the bottom of our hearts and is reflected back to us in a religious life....  Monastic Practice, Lineage, Commitment, Letting Go, Practice Period, Renunciation,...            | 
                  
             Sep 29 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Jewel Mirror Samadhi Class Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Delusion, Teacher-and-Student, Freedom, Letting Go, Attachment...            | 
                  
             Sep 24 1996 Green Gulch Farm           | 
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            Jewel Mirror Samadhi Class confusion, Four Noble Truths, Soto Zen, Rinzai, Absolute-and-Relative, Five Ranks,...            | 
                  
             Sep 10 1996 Green Gulch Farm           |