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Buddha's Parinirvana: Eight Aspects of an Enlightened Person

Serial: BZ-00873B Saturday Lecture -
Parinirvana, Eight Aspects, Enlightenment, Eight Aspects, Nirvana, Samadhi, Daily Life, Greed...
Feb 16 1986
Berkeley Zen Center

Priest Practice/Lay Practice: Zen Community as a Mandala

Serial: BZ-00872A Saturday Lecture -
Priest-and-Lay, Sangha, Birth-and-Death, Chanting, Lay, Lay Practice, Priest, Priest-and-Lay...
Feb 08 1986
Berkeley Zen Center

Kshanti: Practicing Patience with Life as It Is

Serial: BZ-00873A Saturday Lecture -
Kshanti, Patience, Composure, Culture, Gaining Mind, Lotus Sutra, Passions, Patience, Priest,...
Feb 01 1986
Berkeley Zen Center

Discipline in Practice

Serial: BZ-00871B One-Day Sitting -
Monastic Practice, Forms, Building, Commitment, Continuous Practice, Daily Life, Equanimity,...
Jan 18 1986
Berkeley Zen Center

Buddha, Dharma, Sangha

Serial: BZ-00871A Saturday Lecture -
Three Treasures, Priest, Lay, Sangha, Ordination, Priest-and-Lay, Buddha Nature, Religion, Ego...
Jan 04 1986
Berkeley Zen Center

Thoughts on Christmas and New Year: Gaining Mind

Serial: BZ-00870B Saturday Lecture -
Gaining Mind, Gaining Mind, New Year, Ego, Buddha Nature, Karma, Vow, Chanting, Bodhisattva...
Dec 21 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Concentration and Wisdom: One-Sided Mind and Whole Mind

Serial: BZ-00870A Saturday Lecture -
Concentration, Wisdom, Samadhi, Attachment, Concentration, Precepts, Anger, Mahayana,...
Dec 14 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Seven Factors of Enlightenment: Part III

Serial: BZ-00869B Rohatsu Day 6 -
Enlightenment, Concentration, Equanimity, Composure, Attachment, Concentration, Equanimity,...
Dec 06 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Seven Factors of Enlightenment: Part II Second Factor: Investigation, Deep Analysis

Serial: BZ-00869A Rohatsu Day 5 -
Enlightenment, Concentration, Posture, Building, Harmonizing, Mindfulness, Separation,...
Dec 05 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Seven Factors of Enlightenment: Part I Mindfulness and Effort in Sesshin

Serial: BZ-00868B Rohatsu Day 4 -
Enlightenment, Effort, Sesshin, Mindfulness, Posture, Concentration, Equanimity, Gaining Mind...
Dec 04 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

One Month Practice Period at Tassajara

Serial: BZ-00868A Rohatsu Day 2 -
Tassajara, Practice Period, Practice Period, Tassajara, Mindfulness, Nirvana Sutra, Daily Life...
Dec 02 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Death and Dying: Compassion Meditation

Serial: BZ-00867B Lecture -
Buddha Nature, Building, Heart Sutra, Priest, Happiness, Conversation, Hate, War, Peace...
Nov 23 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Awakening of Faith: Thusness and Intersection of Absolute and Phenomenon

Serial: BZ-00867A Lecture -
Anger, Commitment, Culture, Mahayana, Priest-and-Lay, Sangha, Soto Zen, Tassajara, Vow...
Nov 16 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

How to Sit Sesshin

Serial: BZ-00866B Lecture -
Anger, Concentration, Evil, Four Noble Truths, Hindrances, Instruction, Mindfulness, Passions...
Nov 09 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Way-Seeking Mind Within Any Circumstances

Serial: BZ-00866A Lecture -
Anger, Big Mind, Bowing, Commitment, confusion, Continuous Practice, Doubt, Karma, Light-and-...
Nov 02 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

After the Bodhisattva Ceremony: Four Vows and Four Noble Truths

Serial: BZ-00865B Saturday Lecture -
Precepts, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Four Noble Truths, Vow, Precepts, Bodhisattva Ceremony,...
Oct 26 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Investigation and the Five Controlling Faculties

Serial: BZ-00865A Saturday Lecture -
Concentration, Mindfulness, Doubt, Zazen Mind, Daily Life, Karma, Separation, Harmonizing,...
Oct 19 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Background of Oryoki Practice

Serial: BZ-00864B Beginners' Sitting -
Oryoki, Offering, Cultivation, Soto Zen, Lay, Gratitude, Rinzai, Bodhidharma, Bowing...
Oct 12 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Teacher and Student Relationship

Serial: BZ-00864A Saturday Lecture -
Teacher-and-Student, Teacher-and-Student, Dharma Transmission, Karma, Transmission, confusion...
Oct 05 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Hearing Sounds with Our Whole Body and Mind

Serial: BZ-00884B Saturday Lecture -
Mindfulness, Daily Life, Vinaya, Greed, Continuous Practice, Nirvana, Duality, Precepts...
Sep 28 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Considering the Hindrances and Seeing the Dharmas

Serial: BZ-00884A Saturday Lecture -
Hindrances, Mindfulness, Concentration, Equanimity, Hindrances, Study Period, Sixth Patriarch...
Sep 21 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

The Five Hindrances

Serial: BZ-00411B Saturday Lecture -
Hindrances, Anger, Hindrances, Doubt, Equanimity, Attachment, Emotions, Lay, Ego,...
Sep 06 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Free Sitting vs. Forty Minute Periods: Dogen's Way

Serial: BZ-00411A Lecture -
Zazen, Dogen, Daily Life, Lay Practice, Bell, Practice Period, Beginners, Rinzai, Interview,...
Sep 01 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Karma and The Hindrances

Serial: BZ-00410B Saturday Lecture -
Karma, Hindrances, Karma, Study Period, Hindrances, Precepts, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Continuous...
Aug 31 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Study Period (J. Ango)

Serial: BZ-00410A Saturday Lecture -
Study Period, Ango, Daily Life, Heart Sutra, Lay, Practice Period, Precepts, Priest, Priest-...
Aug 17 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Sutra Study: The Meaning of Zazen and Kinhin

Serial: BZ-00413B Saturday Lecture -
Zazen, Kinhin, Bell, Bodhidharma, Building, Daily Life, Intuition, Lotus Sutra, Mindfulness,...
Aug 10 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

The Meaning of the Bodhisattva Ceremony

Serial: BZ-00413A Saturday Lecture -
Bodhisattva Ceremony, Karma, Precepts, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Sangha, Manjushri, Bodhisattva...
Aug 03 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

The Eight Janas and the Origins of Zen

Serial: BZ-00429A One-Day Sitting -
Consciousness, Attachment, Bodhidharma, Concentration, Doubt, Equanimity, Happiness,...
Jul 20 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Zen Practice With Children and Families

Serial: BZ-00424B Saturday Lecture -
Family Practice, Religion, Birth-and-Death, Monastic Practice, Soto Zen, Priest, Family...
Jul 14 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Fukanzazengi: Think Not Thinking

Serial: BZ-00412B Saturday Lecture -
Fukanzazengi, Daily Life, Birth-and-Death, Doubt, Nirvana, Duality, Attachment, Samsara,...
Jul 06 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Way-Seeking Mind

Serial: BZ-00412A Saturday Lecture -
Way-Seeking Mind, Priest, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Vow, Samsara, Nirvana, Religion,...
Jun 22 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Zazen and Shikantaza

Serial: BZ-00415B Saturday Lecture -
Zazen, Shikantaza, Anger, Building, Concentration, Daily Life, Greed, Hindrances, Instruction...
Jun 15 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Fukanzazengi; Questions and Answers

Serial: BZ-00415A Saturday Lecture -
Fukanzazengi, Discrimination, Continuous Practice, Enemies, Peace, Subject-and-Object, Big...
Jun 08 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Zaike Tokudo: The Meaning of Ordination

Serial: BZ-00414 Saturday Lecture -
Zaike Tokudo, Lineage, Priest, Ordination, Dharma Transmission, Precepts, Transmission, Rinzai...
Jun 01 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

June 1st, 1985, Serial No. 00429, Side B

Serial: BZ-00429B -
Lineage, Priest, Precepts, Ordination, Buddha Ancestors, Dharma Transmission, Priest-and-Lay,...
Jun 01 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Post-Mountain Seat Ceremony: Questions and Answers

Serial: BZ-00428 Lecture -
War, Happiness, Causation, Zoom, Diversity, Manjushri, Demons, Gratitude, Bodhidharma,...
May 25 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Mountain Seat Ceremony

Serial: BZ-00427B Ceremony -
Gratitude, Dragons, Bodhidharma, Happiness, War
May 19 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Tenzo Kyokun

Serial: BZ-00426B Saturday Lecture -
Tenzo Kyokun, Practice Position, Six Realms, Demons, Buddha Mind, Karma, Ego, Big Mind,...
May 18 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Pre-Mountain Seat Ceremony

Serial: BZ-00427A Lecture -
New Year, Cultivation, Bodhidharma, Transmission, Priest
May 18 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Pre-Mountain Seat Ceremony: Questions and Comments

Serial: BZ-00426A Saturday Lecture -
Mountain Seat Ceremony, Priest, Ordination, Precepts, Lay, Offering, Priest-and-Lay, Monastic...
May 11 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Patience and the Paramitas

Serial: BZ-00424A Sesshin Day 2 -
Patience, Equanimity, Daily Life, Concentration, Bell, Patience, Duality, Precepts, Samadhi,...
Mar 17 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Sitting Sesshin as a Beginner

Serial: BZ-00425B Sesshin Day 1 -
Sesshin, Zazen, Peace, Intuition, Hate, Posture, Anger, Silence, Concentration, Bell,...
Mar 16 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Creating Practice Using the Forms at Hand: Layman Pang

Serial: BZ-00425A Saturday Lecture -
Lay Practice, Layman Pang, Mindfulness, Buddha Mind, Sixth Patriarch, Monastic Practice,...
Mar 09 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Form is Emptiness

Serial: BZ-01477 -
Bell, Building, Continuous Practice, Daily Life, Gratitude, Mindfulness, Tassajara...
Mar 05 1985
Tassajara

Doing Zazen All Day Long Without Crossing Your Legs

Serial: BZ-00423B Saturday Lecture -
Buddha Mind, Monastic Practice, Daily Life, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Posture, Anger,...
Mar 02 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Buddha's Parinirvana

Serial: BZ-00423A Saturday Lecture -
Parinirvana, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Buddha's Birthday...
Feb 16 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Introductory Sesshin: Zazen Questions: Carrying the Stick

Serial: BZ-00409B Beginners' Sitting -
Zazen, Posture, Concentration, Kyosaku, Anger, Birth-and-Death, Building, Continuous Practice...
Feb 09 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record Case #3: Sun Face Buddha, Moon Face Buddha

Serial: BZ-00409A Saturday Lecture -
Buddha, Koan, BCR-3, Buddha Nature, Commitment, Cultivation, First Principle, Greed,...
Feb 02 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Chanting Practice

Serial: BZ-01523B Saturday Lecture -
Chanting, Bell, Chanting, Ego, Four Noble Truths, Heart Sutra, Offering, War...
Jan 26 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Mindfulness Practice in Sesshin: Vipassana and Samadhi

Serial: BZ-01523A Saturday Lecture -
Mindfulness, Vipassana, Samadhi, Concentration, Mindfulness, Attachment, Concentration,...
Jan 19 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

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