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Day Off Class Zazenshin

Serial: BZ-01483 Class 6 of 6 -
Doubt, Commitment, Intuition, Buddha Nature, Discrimination, Big Mind, Darkness and Light,...
Nov 19 1992
6

Iron Flute: Heat in Summer, Head Cold in Winter

Serial: BZ-00643A The recording photo shows two titles.  Getting Real: After Putting Another Head on Your Head Iron Flute: Heat in Summer, Head Cold in Winter While the second title seems more appropriate for the talk and we've chosen it... -
Hate, Teacher-and-Student, Attachment, Transmission, Daily Life, Conversation, Commitment,...
Nov 14 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Day Off Class

Serial: BZ-01484 Class 5 of 6 -
Precepts, Buddha Ancestors, Transmission, Silent Illumination, Buddha Nature, Current Events,...
Nov 14 1992
5

Bodhisattva Ceremony

Serial: BZ-00642B One Day Sitting -
Precepts, Karma, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Repentance, Vow, Renewal, Bell, Sangha, Hate, Peace...
Nov 08 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Hongzhi (Zen Master)

Serial: BZ-00642A Saturday Lecture -
Hongzhi, Priest, Priest-and-Lay, Silent Illumination, Lay, Practice Period, Hindrances,...
Oct 31 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Day Off Class

Serial: BZ-01481 Class 4 of 6 -
Duality, Birth-and-Death, Non-duality, Buddha Nature, Silence, Subject-and-Object, Interview,...
Oct 24 1992
4

Folk Tale of the Woman and the Crescent Moon Bear

Serial: BZ-00641B Lecture -
Obstacles, Anger, Vow, Four Noble Truths, War, Absolute-and-Relative, Bodhisattva Vow,...
Oct 23 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Paramitas: Prajna (Wisdom)

Serial: BZ-00615 Class 6 of 6 -
Four Noble Truths, Dependent Origination, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Heart Sutra,...
Oct 22 1992
6
Berkeley Zen Center

Day Off Class

Serial: BZ-01482 Class 3 of 6 -
Dragons, Karma, Fox, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Repentance, Bodhisattva Vow, Vow, Doubt, training,...
Oct 19 1992
3

Who am I? What is Zazen? Turning to Life: A Cow Turns Water into Milk, A Snake, Into Venom

Serial: BZ-00641A Lecture -
Peace, Right Speech, Right Effort, Concentration, Precepts, Priest, Addiction, Greed, Evil,...
Oct 17 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Paramitas: Dhyana (Meditation)

Serial: BZ-00614 Class 5 of 6 -
Concentration, Hindrances, Mindfulness, Instruction, Death-and-Dying, zen meditation, Mahayana...
Oct 15 1992
5
Berkeley Zen Center

Day Off Class

Serial: BZ-01480 Class 2 of 6 -
Dragons, Gaining Mind, Sixth Patriarch, Dharma Transmission, Subject-and-Object, Lineage,...
Oct 14 1992
2

The Dragon Who Never Sleeps: Taisho on Gathas and their Use

Serial: BZ-00640 Lecture -
Vow, resistance, Priest, Bodhisattva Precepts, Right Speech, Lay, Mahayana, Evil, Practice...
Oct 12 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Balance: Relax Your Mind

Serial: BZ-00639B Lecture -
Culture, Buddha Nature, Samsara, Gratitude, Bodhidharma, Evil, Concentration, Bell,...
Oct 10 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Paramitas: Virya (Effort)

Serial: BZ-00613 Class 4 of 6 -
Right Effort, Enemies, Attachment, Patience, Birth-and-Death, confusion, Practice Period,...
Oct 08 1992
4
Berkeley Zen Center

The Paramitas

Serial: BZ-00639A One day sitting -
Happiness, Right Effort, Offering, Enthusiasm, Mindfulness, Patience, Heart Sutra, Precepts,...
Oct 03 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Paramitas: Sila (Virtue) and Kshanti (Patience)

Serial: BZ-00612 Class 3 of 6 -
Anger, Precepts, Patience, Ordinary Mind, Enemies, Emotions, Dependent Origination, Observe,...
Oct 01 1992
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Silence and Poetry

Serial: BZ-00638B Lecture -
Silence, Don't Know Mind, resistance, Concentration, Peace, Emotions, Politics,...
Sep 26 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Paramitas: Dana (Giving) and Sila (Virtue)

Serial: BZ-00611 Class 2 of 6 -
Precepts, Addiction, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Heart Sutra, Right Speech, Hindrances, Conversation...
Sep 24 1992
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #44

Serial: BZ-00638A Hoshan's Knowing How to Beat the Drum, Saturday Lecture -
BCR-44, Daily Life, Attachment, Buddha Mind, Don't Know Mind, Teacher-and-Student,...
Sep 19 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Paramitas: Dana, Bodhisattva Context

Serial: BZ-00610 Class 1 of 6 -
Mahayana, Mindfulness, Silence, Subject-and-Object, Aspects of Practice, Blue Cliff Record,...
Sep 17 1992
1
Berkeley Zen Center

The Path of Purification: The Dynamic, Not Static Nature of Virtue in Buddhamind

Serial: BZ-00637B Lecture -
Buddha Mind, Religion, Politics, Non-violence, Doubt, Concentration, American, Peace,...
Sep 12 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Kajo Fascicle in Shogobenzo Continued

Serial: BZ-00637A Sesshin Day 3 -
Dogen, Shobogenzo, Buddha Ancestors, Dharma Transmission, Doubt, Building, Enthusiasm, Bowing...
Sep 07 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Kajo Fascicle in Shogobenzo

Serial: BZ-00636B Everyday Activity: Drinking Tea and Eating Rice, Sesshin Day 2 -
Shobogenzo, Daily Life, Buddha Ancestors, Non-duality, Doubt, War, Peace
Sep 06 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Family, Friends, and Practice

Serial: BZ-00636A Sesshin Day 1 -
Family Practice, Mundane Life, Family Practice, Daily Life, American, Anger, Conversation,...
Sep 05 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record Case #27: Leaves Fall, Body Exposed to the Golden Wind

Serial: BZ-00635B Lecture -
Four Noble Truths, Book of Serenity, Big Mind, Greed, Happiness, War, Intuition, Tassajara Zen...
Aug 29 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan: Manifesting Larger Being Through Small Being

Serial: BZ-00635A Lecture -
Subject-and-Object, Big Mind, Absolute-and-Relative, Duality, Religion, Impermanence, Oneness...
Aug 22 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan Case #42: What is a Zen Student? Manjusri and the Young Woman in Samadhi

Serial: BZ-00634A Lecture -
Manjushri, Building, Karma, Enthusiasm, Discrimination, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Culture...
Aug 15 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Sutta Nippatta: Early Teaching of Nonattachment to View, Self; Attentiveness to Actual and Ideal

Serial: BZ-00634B Lecture -
Mindfulness, Demons, Nirvana Sutra, Commitment, Liberation, Bell, Nirvana, Posture, Peace,...
Aug 08 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan Case #30: Baso’s This Very Mind is Buddha

Serial: BZ-00633B Lecture -
Buddha Mind, stubbornness, Instruction, Buddha Nature, Transmission, Hate, Posture, American,...
Aug 01 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan, Case #1: Joshu’s Mu and the Importance and Significance of the Lotus Sutra

Serial: BZ-00633A Lecture -
Lotus Sutra, Buddha Nature, Four Noble Truths, Three Treasures, Book of Serenity, Priest,...
Jul 25 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Is Buddha Happy? Harmony, Universal Logic

Serial: BZ-00632A Communion and Communication cont., Saturday Lecture -
Happiness, Composure, American, Buddha Mind, Demons, Ego, Politics, Sangha, Equanimity,...
Jul 18 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Communion and Communication

Serial: BZ-00631B Saturday Lecture -
First Principle, Discrimination, Intuition, Duality, Bodhisattva Precepts, Monastic Practice,...
Jul 11 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Shusho Hossen

Serial: BZ-00630 Ceremony -
Giving-and-Taking, Bodhidharma, Absolute-and-Relative, Dragons, stubbornness, Practice Period...
Jun 28 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Criticism in the Realm of Absolute and Relative

Serial: BZ-00631A Sesshin Day 5 -
Absolute-and-Relative, Absolute-and-Relative, Big Mind, Discrimination, Emotions, Ego,...
Jun 28 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan: Seeing Forms with the Whole Body and Mind

Serial: BZ-00727B No Gap, Flexibility, Pain, Sesshin Day 4 -
Separation, Thoroughness, Discrimination, Ego
Jun 27 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record Case #1

Serial: BZ-00727A Sesshin Day 3 -
Bodhidharma, Duality, Avalokiteshvara, Samsara, Silence, Building, Ego
Jun 26 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan

Serial: BZ-00709B Sesshin Day 2 -
Genjokoan, Buddha Nature, Duality, Samsara, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Non-duality, Heart Sutra...
Jun 25 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan

Serial: BZ-00709A Sesshin Day 1 -
Genjokoan, Duality, Birth-and-Death, Non-duality, Emotions, Practice Period, Attachment,...
Jun 24 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan Cases #30 & 33: Baso’s Two Responses: Buddha is Mind, Buddha is not Mind

Serial: BZ-00708B Lecture -
Intuition, Culture, Transmission, Ordinary Mind, Subject-and-Object, Teacher-and-Student,...
Jun 20 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Shosan Ceremony

Serial: BZ-00708A Ceremony -
Shosan, Forgiveness, Right Effort, Silence, Practice Period, Gratitude, Peace, training...
Jun 15 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #45: Who Is that Other?

Serial: BZ-00711B Buddha and Maitreya Are Servants to Another, Saturday Lecture -
Buddha, Maitreya, MM-45, Ego, Anger, Five Ranks, Absolute-and-Relative, Bodhisattva Vow,...
Jun 13 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Tozan’s Five Ranks: Tozan’s Five Poems in 3 Translations

Serial: BZ-00609 Class 4 of 4 -
Dragons, Five Ranks, Attachment, Birth-and-Death, Culture, Ego, Buddha Nature, New Year,...
Jun 11 1992
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #19

Serial: BZ-00711A Ordinary Mind Is the Way, Saturday Lecture -
Ordinary Mind, MM-19, Ordinary Mind, Doubt, confusion, Religion, Hate, Culture, American,...
Jun 07 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Tozan’s Five Ranks: Five Positions, Eight Consciousnesses

Serial: BZ-00608 Class 3 of 4 -
Birth-and-Death, Karmic Consciousness, Diversity, Discrimination, Buddha Nature, Ego, Eight...
Jun 04 1992
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan: First Five Lines and Tozan's Five Ranks: Desire and Intention

Serial: BZ-00710B Saturday Lecture -
Genjokoan, Tozan, Five Ranks, Desire, Ego, Buddha Nature, Big Mind, Harmonizing, Renunciation...
May 30 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Tozan’s Five Ranks: Eight Consciousnesses, Four Wisdoms

Serial: BZ-00606 Class 1 of 4 -
Discrimination, Five Ranks, Subject-and-Object, Concentration, Ego, Buddha Nature, Cultivation...
May 28 1992
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Tozan’s Five Ranks: Basic Overview

Serial: BZ-00607 Class 2 of 4 -
Tozan, Dongshan, Five Ranks, Absolute-and-Relative, Lotus Sutra, Karma, Emotions, Daily Life,...
May 21 1992
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00713B Sesshin Day 2 -
American, Monastic Practice, Demons, Culture, Silence, Lineage, Religion
May 18 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

What is Buddha?

Serial: BZ-00713A Sesshin Day 1 -
Buddha, Big Mind, Practice Period, Daily Life, Buddha Nature, Absolute-and-Relative, Lay, Zoom...
May 17 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

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