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Title	Speaker	Date
Suzuki Roshi Symposium, Side F Culture, American, Transmission, Religion, Lineage, Conversation, Priest, Zazen Mind...		Aug 28 2009 University of California at Berkeley
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 Seijiki, 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
The Past is not the Past, The Past is Now: Personal Stories, Columbia 1968 Serial: BZ-01146 Saturday lecture American, Building, Interdependence, War, Priest, Harmonizing, Forgiveness, Diversity...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jul 05 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
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
The Story of Sejiki, Awakening and Nourishing All Beings: Honor Spirits and Beings Who Have Left This World Serial: BZ-01004 Saturday Lecture Offering, Soto Zen, American, Mahayana, Vow	Hozan Alan Senauke	Oct 20 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
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
Sitting All Together, Travels in Taiwan: BZC & INEB Sanghas; How Do We Keep Fresh Vitality? Serial: BZ-00997 Saturday Lecture Culture, Precepts, Monastic Practice, Ordination, Silence, American, Karma, Lay,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Sep 15 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
Kid Zendo, Monkey: Hell Boy, The Bodhisattva Serial: BZ-01422 Saturday Lecture Bodhisattva Way, Avalokiteshvara, War, Karma, Nirvana, American, Emotions, Dragons,...	Mary Mocine	Feb 24 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
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
Reflections on Autumn 2006: Trip to Japan by Grace and Participants Serial: BZ-01410 Saturday Lecture Culture, Buddha Nature, American, Teacher-and-Student, Chanting, Offering, Doubt,...	Myoan Grace Schireson	Jan 06 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
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
Sojun and Doug Greiner’s Trip to Bhutan Serial: BZ-01390 Monday Morning Demons, Culture, Interview, Chanting, Happiness, Religion, American, Priest, Lay...	Sojun Mel Weitsman and Doug Greiner	Oct 02 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Three Topics: Flowers Instead of Incense; Use of the “Wake-up” Stick; Mel’s Trip to Bhutan Serial: BZ-01180 Saturday Lecture Culture, Offering, American, Happiness, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, War, Lay...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 25 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Allah, The Unseen and Unknowable: Respect, Love and Free Will Serial: BZ-01172B Saturday Lecture Ego, American, War, Happiness, Humility, Peace, Fasting, Evil, Patience, Culture...	Shayk Yassir Chadly	Jul 01 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Bodhidharma as Mother: What do You Love More than Your Own Ease Serial: BZ-01313D Saturday Lecture Bodhidharma, Practice Position, Silent Illumination, Lineage, Bell, American...	Laurie Senauke	Mar 12 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
“Calmness of Mind” from Not Always So Serial: BZ-01039A Class 4 of 4 Anger, Attachment, American, Ego, Interview, Chanting, Concentration, Bell, Offering...	Doug Greiner	Nov 17 2005 4 Berkeley Zen Center
“True Concentration” from Not Always So Serial: BZ-01038A Class 3 of 4 Concentration, Avalokiteshvara, Birth-and-Death, Culture, War, Enemies, American,...	Greg Denny	Nov 10 2005 3 Berkeley Zen Center
“Supported from Within” from Not Always So Serial: BZ-01036A Class 1 of 4 Priest, Non-duality, Observe, Karma, War, Concentration, American, Oneness, Posture...	Ross Blum	Oct 28 2005 1 Berkeley Zen Center
“Director Experience of Reality” from Not Always So Serial: BZ-01195 One Day Sitting Practice Period, Mahayana, Hindrances, Ego, Intimacy, Rinzai, Evil, American...	Ron Nestor	Oct 23 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
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
Dropping Body and Mind Serial: BZ-01326 Saturday Lecture Separation, Practice Period, Ego, Intuition, Conversation, Culture, American...	Greg Denny	Jun 04 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Intersection of Enlightenment and Delusion (Kid Zendo) Serial: BZ-01324 Saturday Lecture Discrimination, Peace, Instruction, American, Anger, Greed, confusion, Religion...	Laurie Senauke	May 21 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Hokyo 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
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
March 8th, 2005, Serial No. 01573, Side A War, Platform Sutra, Building, Hate, Posture, American, Ego		Mar 08 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
Make Your Vow and Root it Deeply Vow, Greed, Mahayana, Daily Life, Religion, American, Priest, Rinzai, Bodhidharma...	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
Diamond Sutra: How Should We Conduct Ourselves Serial: BZ-00562 Class 1 of 4 Attachment, Heart Sutra, Liberation, Culture, American, Patience, Interview, Mahayana...	Peter Overton	Sep 23 2004 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Diamond Sutra: “Save All Beings” Yet No Beings to Save Serial: BZ-01247 Saturday Lecture Heart Sutra, Liberation, Perfect Wisdom, Buddha Nature, Attachment, Culture, Daily...	Peter Overton	Sep 18 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
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, 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 Koan, Manjushri, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Buddha Mind, Religion, Chanting, Vow, American...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 28 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Post WWII: A Return With Help from the Views of Dogen, Disillusion, Eschewing Politics Serial: BZ-01240 Saturday Lecture War, Politics, American, Enemies, Greed, Zoom, Culture, Oneness, Evil, Vow	David Weinberg	Aug 14 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
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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