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Three Different Kinds Of Mind Ordinary Mind, Doubt, Beginners, Book of Serenity	Ron Nestor	Sep 11 2021
The Three Marks Of Existence Nirvana, Four Noble Truths, Monkey Mind, Daily Life, Beginners	Hozan Alan Senauke	May 29 2021
Hai! Here I Am Zazen Mind, Religion, Observe, Politics, Beginners	Hozan Alan Senauke	Feb 20 2021
Kika's Ordination Serial: BZ-02787 From the November/December 2020 newsletter: Sojun Ordains a New Priest On October 17 in the zendo Sojun Roshi ordained Doko Kika Susan Hellein as a priest, with... Ordination, Attachment, Beginners, Building, Equanimity, Karma, Lineage, Passions,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman, Kika Susan Hellein	Oct 17 2020 Berkeley Zen Center
Zazen Refresher Beginners, Bowing, Building, Chanting, Concentration, Emotions, Instruction, Posture...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 04 2020
Taking Refuge Beginners, Buddha Nature, Chanting, Conversation, Four Foundations of Mindfulness,...	Mary Duryee	Feb 09 2019
Home Beginners, Big Mind, Building, Doubt, Heart Sutra, Interview, Posture, Separation,...	Jake Van Akkeren	Nov 25 2017
Presence Mindfulness, Monkey Mind, Current Events, Dragons, Enemies, Culture, Enthusiasm,...	Peter Overton	Aug 19 2017
The Point of Zazen Gaining Mind, Dragons, Demons, Beginners, Peace, Mindfulness, Rinzai, Samadhi,...	Denkei Raul Moncayo	Aug 05 2017
Ordinary Mind is the Way Beginners, Conversation, Duality, Emotions, Funeral, Intuition, Non-duality, Ordinary...	Ron Nestor	Jul 29 2017
Fundamentals of Zazen: Being in Time Serial: BZ-02514 Rohatsu Day 1 Beginners, Bell, Big Mind, Chanting, Discrimination, Offering, Posture	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 04 2016
The Bodhisattva Chaplaincy Beginners, Book of Serenity, Buddha Nature, Evil, First Principle, Heart Sutra, Lay,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Aug 27 2016
Karma Bodhisattva Ceremony Beginners, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Evil, Four Noble Truths, Karma, Manjushri,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 20 2016
The Great Way Not Difficult Difficult Separation, Subject-and-Object, Blue Cliff Record, Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Practice...	Walter Kieser	May 14 2016
Practice of No Self Practice Period, Monastic Practice, Happiness, Buddha Nature, Attachment, Lay...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 07 2016
Suzuki Roshi Eko Lectures: 8 Dhyana Jhana Serial: BZ-02451 Rohatsu Day 4 Anger, Beginners, Chanting, Concentration, Emotions, Karma, Nirvana, Passions...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 02 2015
Friday Zazen Refresher Beginners, Concentration, Discrimination, Fox, Happiness, Instruction, Posture,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 06 2015
Going and Stopping Composure, Enthusiasm, Daily Life, Patience, Posture, Harmonizing, Impermanence,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 29 2014
Hyakujo and the Fox Attachment, Beginners, Book of Serenity, Causation, Fox, Karma, Religion, Separation...	Ron Nestor	Nov 01 2014
Suffering is Not Enough Oneness, Soto Zen, Impermanence, Global Warming, Book of Serenity, Fundraising,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Sep 27 2014
Upaya Chaplaincy Training Beginners, Concentration, Four Noble Truths, Non-duality, Oneness, Religion, Silence...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Aug 30 2014
Joshu - The Real Way Is Not Difficult Serial: BZ-02373 Shuso talk Practice Period, Dragons, Attachment, Family Practice, Absolute-and-Relative, Don...	John Mogey	Jun 07 2014
Blue Cliff Record Case 2 Serial: BZ-02365 Shuso talk BCR-2, Attachment, Beginners, Blue Cliff Record, Daily Life, Intuition, Lineage,...	John Mogey	May 17 2014
The Life of Vow Beginners, Buddha Mind, Daily Life, Happiness, Impermanence, Practice Period,...	Denkei Raul Moncayo	Nov 02 2013
The Heart Sutra Beginners, Chanting, Concentration, Duality, Ego, Heart Sutra, Interdependence,...	Ron Nestor	Oct 19 2013
Blue Cliff Record Case 89 Serial: BZ-02318 Find Out for Yourself, Saturday Lecture Priest, Avalokitesvara, BCR-89, Intuition, Instruction, Priest, Daily Life, Precepts...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 06 2013 Berkeley Zen Center
Compassion Beginners, confusion, Discrimination, Ego, Evil, Four Noble Truths, Heart Sutra,...	Robert Rosenbaum	Jun 29 2013
The Five Aspects of Effort Beginners, Culture, Ego, Emotions, Greed, Impermanence, Interview, Silence, Soto Zen...	Ron Nestor	Mar 09 2013
Serving Practice Serial: BZ-02283 Rohatsu Day 6 Beginners, Bell, Bowing, Composure, Diversity, Duality, Intimacy, Practice Period,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 07 2012 Berkeley Zen Center
Five Powers of Zen Renunciation, Mindfulness, Impermanence, Dependent Origination, New Year,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Dec 01 2012
Our Minor Precepts Serial: BZ-02275 Saturday Lecture Precepts, Renunciation, Emotions, Humility, Sangha, Conversation, Beginners, Patience...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 17 2012 Berkeley Zen Center
Wu Wei - Effortless Effort Beginners, Bodhidharma, Daily Life, Discrimination, Gaining Mind, Harmonizing, Non-...	Robert Rosenbaum	Sep 08 2012
Poems of Miaza Never Despise Serial: BZ-02256 Part 1 of 2 Lotus Sutra, Subject-and-Object, Transmission, Uchiyama, Beginners, Separation,...	Shohaku Okumura	Aug 04 2012 1
Dogen Zenji's Fukanzazengi Subject-and-Object, Dharma Transmission, Non-duality, Duality, Instruction, Religion...	Ron Nestor	Mar 10 2012
Being Time Beginners, Ordination, Mindfulness, Buddha Nature, Priest, Funeral, Gratitude,...	Denkei Raul Moncayo	Dec 05 2011
Zazenshin Class Beginners, Buddha Nature, Fundraising, Instruction, Patience, Peace, Posture, Silence...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 12 2011 1
Case 43 - Tozan's No Heat No Cold Serial: BZ-02114 Absolute and Relative or Essence and Function, Saturday Lecture Five Ranks, Birth-and-Death, Suffering, Absolute-and-Relative, Beginners, Birth-and-...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 10 2010 Berkeley Zen Center
Hokyo Zammai Class Beginners, Discrimination, Ego, Five Ranks, Lineage, Religion, Samsara, Transmission...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 01 2010 5
Genjokoan Class Serial: BZ-02105 Class 5 of 5 Discrimination, Separation, Beginners, Daily Life, Conversation, Non-discrimination,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 17 2010 5 Berkeley Zen Center
Master Ma Is Unwell Serial: BZ-02092 Composure, Moment by moment life, Nothing Special, What is achievement? Saturday Lecture Zenki, BCR-3, Composure, Discrimination, Gaining Mind, Non-discrimination, confusion...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 27 2010 Berkeley Zen Center
Breath in Zazen Serial: BZ-02073 Universal Activity, Rohatsu Day 6 confusion, Posture, Teacher-and-Student, Ego, Daily Life, Duality, Buddha Nature,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 11 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
We Always Practice Under Restriction Serial: BZ-02072 Ability and Disability, Rohatsu Day 5 Zazen, Beginners, confusion, Forgiveness, Funeral, Instruction, Karma, Mindfulness,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 10 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
You Have Just Enough Problems Serial: BZ-02066 from 'Not Always So', Saturday Lecture Attachment, Beginners, Buddha Nature, confusion, Discrimination, Enemies, Hindrances...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 28 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
The Tao of Old Age, Sickness, and Death Serial: BZ-02036 Shuso talk Birth-and-Death, Practice Period, New Year, Ordinary Mind, Beginners, Patience,...	Ryushin Andrea Thach	May 29 2009
Zazen Instruction Serial: BZ-02031 Bansan Blue Cliff Record, Zazen, Beginners, Building, Emotions, Posture, Religion	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 15 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Beginners and Beginning: Self sufficiency: Serial No. 01084 Beginners, Buddha Ancestors, Composure, Heart Sutra, Instruction, Light-and-Darkness...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jan 03 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Zazen Instruction for Zazen Teachers: How to Give Saturday Morning Zazen Instruction Serial: BZ-01088 Lecture Posture, Beginners, Hindrances, Observe, Concentration, Instruction, Samsara, Bowing...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 09 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record Case #87, Right Medicine, Right Teacher: Unmon’s “Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other” Serial: BZ-01135 Saturday lecture Practice Period, Manjushri, Attachment, Blue Cliff Record, Separation, Instruction,...	Gerry Oliva	May 24 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Practice at Berkeley Zen Center Serial: BZ-01108 Taking a Position, Saturday Lecture Practice Position, Humility, Monastic Practice, Beginners, Don't Know Mind,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 12 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Commentary on "Find Out For Yourself" Serial: BZ-01406 Suzuki-rôshi's lecture in "Not Always So", Rohatsu Day 6 Buddha, Suzuki Roshi, Intuition, Daily Life, Instruction, Bell, Don't Know Mind...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 02 2006 Berkeley Zen Center

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