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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 Caodong school, which was founded during the Tang dynasty by Dongshan Liangjie. 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 Caodong 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
Trip to Japan Serial: BZ-00210B Saturday Lecture Japan, Bodhidharma, Chanting, Heart Sutra, Ordination, Practice Period, Soto Zen...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 28 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Readings from “Windbell” the Book Serial: BZ-00154B Lecture Tassajara, Dragons, Big Mind, Hate, Soto Zen, War	Dairyu Michael Wenger, Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 20 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Master Hongzhi's Practice Instructions Serial: BZ-00153B Saturday Lecture Hongzhi, Birth-and-Death, Darkness-and-Light, Light-and-Darkness, Buddha Nature,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 13 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
How to Draw Sound From the Bell Serial: BZ-00152A Sesshin Day 5 Precepts, Soto Zen, Chanting, Practice Period, Doubt, Lay Practice	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 23 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
May 16th, 2002, Serial No. 01010, Side A Soto Zen, Composure, Daily Life, Tassajara, Emotions, Rinzai		May 16 2002
Complaining Serial: BZ-00145A Women's Sitting Death-and-Dying, Hate, Liberation, Rinzai, Soto Zen	Mary Mocine	Apr 20 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Harmonizing Breath, Body, Mind and Feeling Serial: BZ-00142A Sesshin Day 3 Posture, Zazen, Ordinary Mind, Composure, Soto Zen, Nirvana, Duality, Equanimity...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 17 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Zazen: It’s Good For Nothing, Thief in an Empty Room Serial: BZ-00062B Lecture Uchiyama, Blue Cliff Record, Zazen Mind, Book of Serenity, Soto Zen, Dragons,...	Mary Mocine	Feb 09 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Forms Serial: BZ-00095A One Day Sitting Birth-and-Death, Conversation, Fasting, Lay Ordination, Practice Period, Precepts,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Nov 18 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen and Plum Blossoms Serial: BZ-00094A Saturday Lecture Dogen, Buddha Nature, Big Mind, Dragons, Priest-and-Lay, Buddha Ancestors,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 03 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Aspects of Practice: Suzuki Roshi Serial: BZ-00477 Class 1 of 4 Branching Streams, Posture, Precepts, Priest, Soto Zen, Tassajara, War	Dolly Gatozzi	Oct 04 2001 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen's Zazengi Serial: BZ-00086A Ego and Consciousness, Saturday Lecture Zazengi, Consciousness, Ego, Four Noble Truths, Ego, Concentration, Big Mind, Samadhi...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 18 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Tozan and Aspects of Self Practice Period, Giving-and-Taking, Four Noble Truths, Liberation, Soto Zen, War...	David Weinberg	Nov 25 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness Serial: BZ-00085B Unity in Diversity, Diversity in Unity, Saturday Lecture Sandokai, Branching Streams, Branching Streams, Buddha Nature, Diversity, Duality,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 19 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
From the Beginning, No Surprises, No Lack War, Rinzai, Heart Sutra, Posture, Bodhidharma, Soto Zen	Richard Haefele	Aug 12 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen's Shingi, Head Gardener Serial: BZ-00060B Saturday Lecture Shingi, Lay Practice, Cultivation, Soto Zen, Teacher-and-Student, Daily Life, Dragons...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 05 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Women Ancestors Class Serial: BZ-00852 Class 3 of 4 Silent Illumination, Interview, Soto Zen, Chanting, Obstacles, Buddha Nature,...	Mary Mocine, Myoan Grace Schireson	Jul 20 2000 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness Serial: BZ-00159 Saturday Lecture Sandokai, Branching Streams, Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature, Branching Streams, Daily...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 27 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Zen Granny Buddha Nature, Concentration, Heart Sutra, Liberation, Priest, Rinzai, Soto Zen,...	Myoan Grace Schireson	May 20 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Joshua’s Use of 24 Hours Serial: BZ-00207A Sesshin Day Two Blue Cliff Record, Four Noble Truths, Soto Zen, Rinzai, Concentration, Non-attachment...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Mar 25 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness Serial: BZ-00205B Saturday Lecture Sandokai, Branching Streams, Precepts, Subject-and-Object, Buddha Nature, Branching...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 11 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Dragon Zazen Dragons, Concentration, Posture, Don't Know Mind, Rinzai, Bowing, Soto Zen...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Mar 04 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen’s Writings: Commentary on “Enlightenment Unfolds” Serial: BZ-00926 Class 1 of 4 Buddha Ancestors, Buddha Nature, Bodhidharma, Karma, Transmission, Teacher-and-...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Feb 03 2000 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness Serial: BZ-00198B Rohatsu Day 1 Sandokai, Branching Streams, Big Mind, Soto Zen, Branching Streams, Rinzai, Heart...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 29 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Precious Mirror Samadhi, 6 of 8 Serial: BZ-00929 Fall practice period Five Ranks, Ego, Rinzai, Big Mind, Darkness-and-Light, Light-and-Darkness, Soto Zen,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 04 1999 6 of 8 Berkeley Zen Center
October 28th, 1999, Serial No. 01546 Serial: BZ-01546 #duplicate-please-hide Absolute-and-Relative, Five Ranks, Rinzai, Platform Sutra, Ego, Darkness-and-Light,...		Nov 04 1999
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness Serial: BZ-00197A The Spirit of Practice Period, Saturday Lecture Practice Period, Branching Streams, Practice Period, Tassajara, Ego, Precepts,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 16 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
October 14th, 1999, Serial No. 00859 Absolute-and-Relative, Big Mind, Buddha Nature, Ego, Five Ranks, Practice Period,...		Oct 14 1999
September 23rd, 1999, Serial No. 00861 Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Five Ranks, Light-and-Darkness, Absolute-and-Relative, Buddha...		Sep 23 1999
Precious Mirror Samadhi, Class 1 of 8 Serial: BZ-01008A Fall practice period 1999 class 1 of 8 Hokyo Zanmai, Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Song of the Precious Mirror Samadhi, Absolute-and-Relative,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 23 1999 1
September 23rd, 1999, Serial No. 01541 Five Ranks, Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Light-and-Darkness, Absolute-and-Relative, Buddha...		Sep 23 1999
Blue Cliff Record: Case #50 Serial: BZ-00195A Um-mon's “Particle after Particle Samadhi”, Saturday Lecture Ummon, Samadhi, BCR-50, Samadhi, Emotions, Lotus Sutra, Blue Cliff Record,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 11 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Breathing (Thich Nhat Hanh) Serial: BZ-00194A Sesshin Day 2 Thich Nhat Hanh, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Concentration, Happiness, Posture,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 05 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
June 26th, 1999, Serial No. 00165, Side B Buddha Nature, Separation, Obstacles, Interview, Soto Zen		Jun 26 1999
Genjokoan Commentary (Pt. 4/8) Serial: BZ-00753B Sesshin Day 4 Genjokoan, Buddha Nature, Separation, Soto Zen, Obstacles, Interview, Emotions...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 26 1999 4 Berkeley Zen Center
Genjokoan Commentary (Pt. 2/8) Serial: BZ-00078B Sesshin Day 2 Genjokoan, Absolute-and-Relative, Buddha Nature, Duality, Five Ranks, Jewel Mirror...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 24 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Beginners’ Sesshin Chanting, Diversity, Sangha, Soto Zen	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jan 24 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Shikantaza: "To Forget The Self" Serial: BZ-00190A Saturday Lecture Shikantaza, Birth-and-Death, Continuous Practice, Soto Zen, Renunciation, Bodhidharma...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 16 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen’s Guidelines for Studying the Way Serial: BZ-00840 Part 1 of 4 Birth-and-Death, Impermanence, Continuous Practice, Hate, Six Realms, Soto Zen, Daily...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 29 1998 1 Berkeley Zen Center
American Zen Alms-Prayer Pilgrimage Bowing, Four Noble Truths, Gratitude, Soto Zen, War	Claude Anshin Thomas	Aug 01 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
Laying Down Your Arms is the Most Intimate Big Mind, Lay Practice, Soto Zen, Doubt, Karma	Myogen Steve Stücky	Jul 25 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
Eights Aspects Enlightened Person/Right Samadhi Serial: BZ-00324A Saturday Lecture Eight Aspects, Enlightenment, Samadhi, Chanting, Composure, Concentration, Eight...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 02 1997 Berkeley Zen Center
Recognizing Enlightenment Serial: BZ-00322B Saturday Lecture Enlightenment, Koan, Buddha Nature, Dogen, Doubt, Duality, Ordinary Mind, Soto Zen...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 26 1997 Berkeley Zen Center
Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha Blue Cliff Record, Buddha Nature, Concentration, Emotions, Hui-neng, Soto Zen...	Ron Nestor	Aug 02 1997 Berkeley Zen Center
Zadankai Serial: BZ-00114 Lecture Ordinary Mind, Conversation, Buddha Nature, Silent Illumination, Soto Zen, Dragons,...	Robert Aitken Roshi, Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 16 1997 City Center
Zadankai Serial: BZ-00779 Discussion Ordinary Mind, Silent Illumination, Conversation, Soto Zen, Buddha Nature, Dragons...	Robert Aitken Roshi, Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 16 1997 City Center
Life of Buddha Serial: BZ-00845 Class 6 of 6 Karma, Nirvana, Four Noble Truths, Soto Zen, Precepts, Don't Know Mind,...	Maylie Scott	Apr 17 1997 6 Berkeley Zen Center
Fukanzazengi Serial: BZ-00784A Rohatsu Day 2 Fukanzazengi, Obstacles, Posture, Manjushri, Don't Know Mind, Rinzai, Soto Zen,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 03 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen’s Going Beyond Buddha Heart Sutra, Soto Zen, Silent Illumination, Buddha Ancestors, Rinzai, Chanting...	Denkei Raul Moncayo	Aug 24 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Tung Shan’s Poem Serial: BZ-00803A Shusho talk #1 Practice Period, Blue Cliff Record, Soto Zen, Birth-and-Death, Rinzai, Impermanence,...	Ross Blum	May 18 1996 Berkeley Zen Center

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