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Title	Speaker	Date
August 28th, 2009, Serial No. 01549, Side H American, Monastic Practice, training, Transmission, Blue Cliff Record, Culture,...		Aug 28 2009
Brown Rice is Just Right Serial: BZ-02043 Cultivating the Empty Field, Sesshin Day 2 Suzuki Roshi, Ordinary Mind, Silent Illumination, Birth-and-Death, Religion, American...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 18 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Class 2 Komyo Divine Light Transmission, Current Events, Silent Illumination, Discrimination, Conversation,...		May 21 2009
Threading the Eye of the Needle Serial: BZ-02029 Shuso talk Practice Period, Conversation, Buddha Nature, American, Funeral, Patience, Passions,...	Ryushin Andrea Thach	May 11 2009
Ryokan's Poems: Butterfly Dreams. Great Fool pages 187 & 191 Serial: BZ-01087 Teaching Retreat Offering, American, Peace, Priest, Impermanence, Silence, Discrimination, Culture,...	Rev. Shohaku Okumura	Jan 24 2009 2 Berkeley Zen Center
The Monster Within Us Dragons, American, Peace	Meghan Collins	Jan 17 2009
Letting Go Serial: BZ-02011 Saturday Lecture Big Mind, Composure, Birth-and-Death, Monastic Practice, Continuous Practice,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 10 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Platform Sutra of Hui Neng: Serial No. 01080 Serial: BZ-01080 Rohatsu Day 4, side B Samadhi, Mahayana, Big Mind, Ego, Posture, Anger, Demons, American, Building, Peace...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 10 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Platform Sutra of 6th Ancestor, Hui Neng Serial: BZ-01450 Rohatsu Day 4 Samadhi, Big Mind, Mahayana, Posture, Ego, Anger, Passions, confusion, American,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 10 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Platform Sutra of 6th Ancestor Hui Neng Serial: BZ-02007 Rohatsu Day 4 Hui Neng, Posture, Ego, Samadhi, Big Mind, Mahayana, Passions, American, Peace,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 10 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
How do I take this practice into the world? Serial: BZ-01076 Koan - Zuigon: Every day calls Master, answers Yes, Saturday Lecture Zuigan, MM-12, Big Mind, Daily Life, Birth-and-Death, Building, Don't Know Mind...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 06 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Sejiki Serial: BZ-01070 Saturday Lecture Sejiki, Karma, Greed, Happiness, Offering, American	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 25 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Reflections on Sutta Nipata Story "The Ploughing" Serial: BZ-01148 Buddha encounters rich farmer and discusses the Buddha field, One-Day Sitting Buddha, Lay, Vinaya, American, Ego, Repentance, Intuition, Nirvana, Mindfulness, Vow...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 19 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
July 5th, 2008, Serial No. 01146 American, Building, Interdependence, War, Priest, Harmonizing, Forgiveness, Diversity...		Jul 05 2008
Maylie Scott: Life and Death Serial: BZ-01131 Seven Year Memorial Day Reminiscence Birth-and-Death, Priest, Building, Dharma Transmission, Lay, Liberation, Transmission...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 10 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
3 Topics: Takuhatsu, Identity Action, Ryokan Plays with Children Serial: BZ-01110 Part 1 of 2 teaching retreat Separation, Soto Zen, American, Gratitude, Mahayana, Transmission, Discrimination,...	Shohaku Okumura	Jan 26 2008 1 Berkeley Zen Center
October 20th, 2007, Serial No. 01004 Offering, Soto Zen, American, Mahayana, Vow		Oct 20 2007
Taking Care: Paramitas, Precepts and Eightfold Path Serial: BZ-01003 Illumination Without Hindrance, Saturday Lecture Precepts, Vinaya, Buddha Nature, Bodhisattva Precepts, Platform Sutra, Hindrances,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 13 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
Balancing the Spiritual and Material Wheels: Serial: BZ-01001 The Protests in Burma, Saturday Lecture Balance, Politics, Burma, War, American, Soto Zen, Fundraising, Lay, Chanting,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 29 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
September 15th, 2007, Serial No. 00997 Culture, Precepts, Monastic Practice, Ordination, Aspects of Practice, Silence,...		Sep 15 2007
February 24th, 2007, Serial No. 01422 Bodhisattva Way, Avalokiteshvara, War, Karma, Nirvana, American, Emotions, Dragons,...		Feb 24 2007
Practice in the New Year: This is It! Serial: BZ-01411 Saturday Lecture Practice, New Year, confusion, Birth-and-Death, Instruction, Ordinary Mind, Hate,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 13 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
January 6th, 2007, Serial No. 01410 Culture, Buddha Nature, Aspects of Practice, American, Teacher-and-Student, Chanting...		Jan 06 2007
Halloween and Seijiki Serial: BZ-01393 Saturday Lecture Seijiki, American, Offering, Religion, Evil, Demons, Six Realms, Culture, War,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 21 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
October 2nd, 2006, Serial No. 01390 Demons, Culture, Interview, resistance, Chanting, Happiness, Religion, American,...		Oct 02 2006
August 23rd, 2006, Serial No. 01180 Culture, Offering, American, Happiness, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, War, Lay...		Aug 23 2006
July 1st, 2006, Serial No. 01172, Side B Ego, American, War, Happiness, Humility, Peace, Fasting, Evil, Patience, Culture...		Jul 01 2006
March 12th, 2006, Serial No. 01313, Side D Bodhidharma, Practice Position, Silent Illumination, Lineage, Bell, American...		Mar 12 2006
November 17th, 2005, Serial No. 01039, Side A training, Anger, Attachment, American, Ego, Interview, Chanting, Concentration, Bell...		Nov 17 2005
November 10th, 2005, Serial No. 01038, Side A Concentration, Avalokiteshvara, Birth-and-Death, Culture, War, Enemies, American,...		Nov 10 2005
October 28th, 2005, Serial No. 01036, Side A Priest, Non-duality, Observe, Karma, War, Concentration, American, Oneness, Posture...		Oct 28 2005
October 23rd, 2005, Serial No. 01195 Practice Period, Mahayana, Aspects of Practice, Hindrances, Ego, Intimacy, Rinzai,...		Oct 23 2005
Reflections on My Life Serial: BZ-01335 76th Birthday, Saturday Lecture Sojun Mel Weitsman, Priest, Lay Practice, Priest-and-Lay, Lay, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 08 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
June 4th, 2005, Serial No. 01326 Separation, Practice Period, Ego, Intuition, Conversation, Culture, American...		Jun 04 2005
May 21st, 2005, Serial No. 01324 Discrimination, Peace, resistance, Instruction, American, Anger, Greed, confusion,...		May 21 2005
Hokkyo Zammai: Precious Mirror Samadhi Serial: BZ-00766 Class 12 of 12 Culture, Precepts, Practice Position, Bodhisattva Precepts, Evil, Patience, Religion...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 15 2005 12 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
March 14th, 2005, Serial No. 01570 Monastic Practice, Priest, Building, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Soto Zen,...		Mar 14 2005
Way Seeking Mind Pt. 2 Serial: BZ-00590 Lecture Sojun Mel Weitsman, Way-Seeking Mind, Monastic Practice, Priest, Fundraising,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 13 2005
Way Seeking Mind Pt. 1 Serial: BZ-00591 Lecture 1 of 4 Sojun Mel Weitsman, Way-Seeking Mind, War, Platform Sutra, Hate, Building, Posture,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 08 2005 1 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
March 8th, 2005, Serial No. 01573, Side A War, Platform Sutra, Building, Hate, Posture, American, Ego		Mar 08 2005
Make Your Vow and Root it Deeply Vow, Bodhisattva Vow, Greed, Mahayana, Daily Life, Religion, American, Priest, Rinzai...	Myoan Grace Schireson	Feb 26 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Uchiyama-Roshi: His Teachings on Zazen and Life Serial: BZ-01304E Teaching Retreat 1 of 2 Funeral, Soto Zen, Samadhi, Impermanence, Vow, Posture, Instruction, American,...	Shohaku Okumura	Feb 05 2005 1 Berkeley Zen Center
March 2005 talk, Serial No. 01574 Monastic Practice, Building, Priest, Fundraising, American, Heart Sutra, Tassajara...		2005
September 23rd, 2004, Serial No. 00562 Attachment, Heart Sutra, Liberation, Culture, American, Patience, Interview, Mahayana...		Sep 23 2004
September 18th, 2004, Serial No. 01247 Heart Sutra, Liberation, Perfect Wisdom, Buddha Nature, Attachment, Culture, Daily...		Sep 18 2004
September 11, 2001 Anniversary; Victims on Both Sides Serial: BZ-01246 Following in the Steps of the British and Roman Empires, Saturday Lecture Karma, Karma, American, War, Equanimity, Emotions, Evil, Building, Lineage, confusion...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 11 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Not Sticking to Anything: Working with Faults Serial: BZ-01244 (from "Not Always So"), Sesshin Day 2 Ego, Culture, training, Teacher-and-Student, Monastic Practice, Dharma Transmission,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 05 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
"Evo-revolution" Serial: BZ-01242 Working with Our Problems, Saturday Lecture Bodhisattva Vow, Koan, Manjushri, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Buddha Mind, Religion,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 28 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
August 14th, 2004, Serial No. 01240 War, Politics, American, Enemies, Greed, Zoom, Culture, Oneness, Evil, Vow		Aug 14 2004
In Memorium to the Victims of the WW II Bombing Serial: BZ-01279A How Something Good Can Come From Something Tragic, Saturday Lecture War, Japan, War, Peace, American, Building, Priest, Renewal, Karma	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 07 2004 Berkeley Zen Center

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