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Bringing Zendo Life to the World

Serial: BZ-00715B Lecture -
Building, Concentration, Daily Life, Family Practice, Giving-and-Taking, Practice Period,...
Sep 14 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Metta Sutta

Serial: BZ-00715A Lecture -
Enemies, Anger, Mahayana, Equanimity, Greed, Lovingkindness, Happiness, Peace, Beginners, Hate...
Sep 07 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Why Do We Do Zazen?

Serial: BZ-00714B Just Say "Yes!", Sesshin Day 3 -
Zazen, Offering, Birth-and-Death, Ego, Ordinary Mind, Fox, Doubt, Priest, Demons, Samadhi,...
Sep 02 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Book of Serenity: Case #91

Serial: BZ-00714A More of Dreams, Sesshin Day 2 -
SER-91, First Principle, Dream World, Subject-and-Object, Dragons, Buddha Nature, Oneness,...
Sep 01 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #20

Serial: BZ-00694B Nansen's Flower; Dreaming, Sesshin Day 1 -
Nansen, BCR-20, Attachment, Dream World, Intuition, Precepts, Separation
Aug 31 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Practices in Everyday Life

Serial: BZ-00694A Lecture -
Cultivation, Culture, Dharma Transmission, Enemies, Liberation, Monastic Practice, Right...
Aug 24 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

“Engaged”: Webster’s as a Buddhist Text

Serial: BZ-00972B Lecture -
Fox, Four Noble Truths, Priest, Right Speech, Right Effort, Funeral, Vow, Soto Zen, Precepts,...
Aug 17 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Path of Purification, Negative Space, Humanity and Nematoads

Serial: BZ-00972A Lecture -
Concentration, Culture, Doubt
Aug 10 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Mindfulness Straight Through

Serial: BZ-00971B Lecture -
Anger, Duality, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Four Noble Truths, Mill Valley, Mindfulness,...
Aug 03 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Bodhisattva Ceremony: Plunging In

Serial: BZ-00971A Lecture -
Confession-and-Repentance, Repentance, Vow, Buddha Ancestors, Three Treasures, Precepts,...
Jul 27 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Naturalness

Serial: BZ-00970B Lecture -
Beginners, Buddha Nature, Composure, Concentration, Daily Life, Harmonizing, Heart Sutra,...
Jul 19 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

July 18th, 1991, Serial No. 00623

Serial: BZ-00623 Lecture -
Buddha Nature, Building, Discrimination, Enthusiasm, Intuition, Non-discrimination, Silence,...
Jul 18 1991
Tassajara

Blue Cliff Record: Case #43

Serial: BZ-00970A Tozan's "Neither Hot Nor Cold", One-Day Sitting -
Tozan, BCR-43, Absolute-and-Relative, Bell, confusion, Discrimination, Enemies, Five Ranks,...
Jul 14 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Zen and Excitement

Serial: BZ-00968B Saturday Lecture -
Suzuki Roshi, Daily Life, Building, Constancy, Tassajara, Priest, Attachment, Equanimity,...
Jul 06 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Embodying Timeless Presence

Serial: SF-01412 The talk centers on the concept of "being-time" or "uji" as expounded by Dōgen in his work, emphasizing the inseparability of time and being and the actualization of every moment. The discussion explores the complexity of...
Effort, Study, Nirvana
Jul 03 1991

Shusho Ceremony

Serial: BZ-00969 Ceremony -
Practice Period, Three Treasures, Giving-and-Taking, Sangha, Attachment, Dragons, Intimacy,...
Jul 01 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Suffering and Intention

Serial: BZ-00968A Sesshin Day 5 -
Suffering, Intention, Emotions, Karma, Don't Know Mind, Religion, Lay, Tassajara,...
Jun 30 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

What is Sesshin?

Serial: BZ-00967B Sesshin Day 4 -
Sesshin, Attachment, Birth-and-Death, Building, Emotions, Happiness, Karma, Nirvana, Peace,...
Jun 29 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00967A Sesshin Day 3 lecture -
Building, Dharma Transmission, New Year, Priest, Transmission, War
Jun 28 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Nine Patch Quilt

Serial: BZ-00966B Sesshin day 2 -
Building, Continuous Practice, Doubt, Half-Smile, Passions, Patience, Posture...
Jun 27 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Time-Being

Serial: BZ-00966A Sesshin Day 1 -
Time-Being, Anger, Doubt, Dream World, Enemies, Intuition, Non-discrimination, Peace, War...
Jun 26 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen’s “Zenki”: Undivided Activity; Zenki and Shoji

Serial: BZ-00275 Class 3 of 3 -
Birth-and-Death, Equanimity, Separation, Teacher-and-Student, Fasting, Fox, Funeral, Oneness,...
Jun 13 1991
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen’s “Zenki”: Undivided Activity

Serial: BZ-00276 Class 2 of 3 -
Birth-and-Death, Subject-and-Object, Interview, Duality, Religion, War, Emotions, Priest, Ego...
Jun 06 1991
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Harmony in the Three Treasures

Serial: SF-01474 The talk primarily addresses the significance of the first three precepts in Zen practice: taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. It explores the varying interpretations and manifestations of these precepts, emphasizing...
Sangha, Three Treasures, Buddha Nature
May 29 1991

Dogen’s “Zenki”: Undivided Activity

Serial: BZ-00277 Class 1 of 3 -
Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature, Thoroughness, Religion, Separation, Obstacles, Lay, Continuous...
May 23 1991
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00726 Lecture part 2, part 1 is missing -
Hindrances, Addiction, Practice Period, Buddha Nature, Anger, Doubt, Lay, Ego, Attachment...
May 13 1991
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Paying Attention to Your Life

Serial: BZ-00701B Lecture -
Ordination, Bowing, Bell, Heart Sutra, Lineage, Uchiyama, Priest, Chanting, Concentration,...
May 04 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #10

Serial: BZ-00701A Sesai is "Poor" and Asks Sozan for Help, Saturday Lecture -
MM-10, Birth-and-Death, Building, Conversation, Culture, Greed, Happiness, Priest, Soto Zen,...
Apr 27 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Fundamentals and Practicality of Zazen

Serial: BZ-00700B One-Day Sitting -
Zazen, Buddha Nature, confusion, Harmonizing, Instruction, Lay, Peace, Posture...
Apr 21 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Pali Canon Sutra on Right View (Middle Way)

Serial: BZ-00700A Lecture -
Attachment, Causation, Doubt, Hate, Heart Sutra, Lay
Apr 13 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #23

Serial: BZ-00692B "Neither Good Not Evil;" Intentions, Humbleness, Saturday Lecture -
Humility, MM-23, Sixth Patriarch, Humility, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Dharma Transmission, Buddha...
Mar 30 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Guidelines

Serial: BZ-00692A Immersing/Obstructing in the Way, Saturday Lecture -
Absolute-and-Relative, Birth-and-Death, Doubt, Duality, Forgiveness, Intuition, Lotus Sutra,...
Mar 23 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Guidelines

Serial: BZ-00691B No Gaining Idea, Discernment, Sesshin Day 2 -
Gaining Mind, Shingi, Bell, Buddha Nature, Don't Know Mind, Gaining Mind, Harmonizing,...
Mar 17 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

All Being and Our Sense of Self

Serial: BZ-00691A Sesshin Day 1 -
Birth-and-Death, Impermanence, Buddha Nature, Ego, Platform Sutra, Priest, Religion,...
Mar 16 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

The “Stuff” of Life and Waking Up

Serial: BZ-00690B Lecture -
Beginners, Daily Life, Doubt, Happiness, Observe, Peace, Renunciation, Samsara, War...
Mar 09 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Fundamentalism, Prayer, Orthodoxy: Science and Religion

Serial: BZ-00690A Lecture -
Hate, Religion, First Principle, Evil, Doubt, Samsara, Mahayana, Politics, Interdependence,...
Mar 02 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra: Thoughts on Emptiness

Serial: BZ-00264 Class 4 of 4 -
Heart Sutra, Chanting, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Subject-and-Object, Evil, Bell, Anger,...
Feb 28 1991
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Persian Gulf War

Serial: BZ-00689B Saturday Lecture -
Current Events, War, Politics, Addiction, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Evil, Non-violence, Peace,...
Feb 23 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra: Skanda, Form and Emptiness

Serial: BZ-00265 Class 3 of 4 -
Anger, Attachment, Causation, Four Noble Truths, Hate, Heart Sutra, Hindrances, Passions,...
Feb 21 1991
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Parinirvana

Serial: BZ-00689A Eight Aspects of an Enlightened Being, One-Day Sitting -
Parinirvana, Eight Aspects, Nirvana, Eight Aspects, Concentration, Duality, Greed, Subject-and...
Feb 16 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra: Paramitas, Skandas, Emptiness, Bodhisattva Way

Serial: BZ-00266 Class 2 of 4 -
Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Hindrances, Don't Know...
Feb 14 1991
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra: The Sutra’s Place in History

Serial: BZ-00267 Class 1 of 4 -
Heart Sutra, Chanting, Avalokitesvara, Monastic Practice, Lineage, Practice Period,...
Feb 07 1991
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Karma Peace

Serial: BZ-00688B Saturday Lecture -
Karma, Peace, confusion, Evil, Greed, Karma, Non-violence, Peace, Politics, Precepts, War...
Jan 26 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Truth Through Shared Practices

Serial: SF-01454A The talk delves into understanding truth through shared practices, emphasizing how various groups and cultures adopt different practices that shape their collective truth-seeking journey. It questions the universal applicability...
Attachment, Discrimination, Culture
Jan 23 1991

Shoyoroku: Case #4

Serial: BZ-00688A Establish a Sanctuary, Saturday Lecture -
Sanctuary, Sanctuary, Subject-and-Object, Offering, Peace, Gratitude, Building, War...
Jan 19 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Mideast Crisis

Serial: BZ-00687B Discussion led by Alan Senauke, Saturday Lecture -
Current Events, War, Anger, Avalokitesvara, Building, Enemies, Heart Sutra, Peace, Vow...
Jan 12 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Bodhisattva’s Four Ways of Guidance: Reasonableness and Responsiveness

Serial: BZ-00687A Lecture -
Anger, Blue Cliff Record, Bodhidharma, confusion, Evil, Right Speech, Separation, Silence, War...
Jan 05 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Appreciating the Different Religions of the World

Serial: BZ-00699B Saturday Lecture -
Religion, Building, Continuous Practice, New Year, Politics, Religion, Sangha, Separation,...
Dec 22 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Shikantaza: Being Present

Serial: BZ-00699A Lecture -
Concentration, Soto Zen, Instruction, Anger, Hate, Family Practice, Posture, Emotions...
Dec 15 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan

Serial: BZ-00698B Enlightenment, Rohatsu Day 7 -
Enlightenment, Religion, Peace, Buddha Nature, Attachment, Diversity, Hindrances, Lay...
Dec 08 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

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