Book of Serenity Talks

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Title	Speaker	Date
As Large as Life: Zen Koans for Everyday Practice; Mumonkan Case #14 Nanchuan Kills the Cat Serial: BZ-01021B Class 4 of 4 Blue Cliff Record, Precepts, Commitment, Birth-and-Death, Book of Serenity, Manjushri...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Mar 15 2004 4 Berkeley Zen Center
Book of Serenity: Case #4 Serial: BZ-01254 What Is A Practice Place?, Saturday Lecture SER-4, Sanctuary, Big Mind, Posture, Funeral, Book of Serenity, resistance,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 13 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Spilling the Water: Equanimity and Balance Serial: BZ-01363 Saturday Lecture Aspects of Practice, Karma, Manjushri, Book of Serenity, Vimalakirti, Soto Zen,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Oct 25 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
What are we Looking For? Serial: BZ-01356 Saturday Lecture Silence, Berkeley Zen Center, Book of Serenity, Ordinary Mind, Don't Know Mind,...	Lee DeBarros	Sep 06 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Book of Serenity, Case #21: Yun-Yen Sweeps the Ground, One Thing at a Time Serial: BZ-00136B Lecture Practice Period, Hate, Book of Serenity, Soto Zen, Vow, Culture, Mindfulness,...	Kosei Laurie Senauke	May 24 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Introduction to Zen: Koans Serial: BZ-00296 Class 3 of 4 Book of Serenity, Silent Illumination, Posture, Practice Period, Rinzai, Dragons,...	Ross Blum and Laurie Senauke	Apr 24 2003 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Zazen: It’s Good For Nothing, Thief in an Empty Room Serial: BZ-00062B Lecture uchiyama, Peace, Blue Cliff Record, Zazen Mind, Book of Serenity, Soto Zen, Dragons,...	Mary Mocine	Feb 09 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Study as Practice Serial: BZ-00088A Lecture Blue Cliff Record, Four Foundations, Book of Serenity, Transmission, Dharma...	Lee DeBarros	Aug 25 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record Case 1: Bodhidharma and Emperor Wu Bodhidharma, Buddha Mind, Big Mind, Book of Serenity, Heart Sutra, Bell, New Year,...	Richard Haefele	Nov 27 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Beginners’ Sesshin: Review of Guidelines, Sitting for World Day of Peace, and Lecture Posture, Peace, Blue Cliff Record, Book of Serenity, Harmonizing, Nirvana, War,...	Ross Blum	Oct 10 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Zen and Pschotherapy Birth-and-Death, Sanctuary, Lay Ordination, Ego, Hate, Family Practice, Book of...	Robert Rosenbaum	May 22 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Waking up with Mindfulness Sanctuary, Chanting, Mindfulness, Book of Serenity, Daily Life, Practice Period,...	Ross Blum	Jul 11 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
Bodhisattva Archetypes Evil, Manjushri, Vow, Lotus Sutra, Aspects of Practice, Heart Sutra, Practice Period...	Taigen Dan Leighton	May 02 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
Nansen Cuts the Cat Serial: BZ-00363B Saturday Lecture Nansen, Book of Serenity, Don't Know Mind, Subject-and-Object, Duality, Precepts...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 17 1997 Berkeley Zen Center
Just This (Is It): Tozan’s Enlightenment Blue Cliff Record, Book of Serenity, Culture, Intuition, resistance, Practice Period...	Peter Overton	Sep 21 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Hongzhi's Practice Instructions Serial: BZ-00810B Emptying Out, Transfer Merit, Saturday Lecture Hongzhi, Practice, Merit, Silent Illumination, Instruction, Book of Serenity, Samadhi...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 25 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Letting Go of Preconceptions Practice Period, Instruction, Birth-and-Death, Samsara, Silent Illumination, Book of...	Myoan Grace Schireson	May 20 1995 Berkeley Zen Center
Chiji Shinji and Metta Sutta: Work Practice Serial: BZ-00761 Class 6 of 10 Intuition, Emotions, Buddha Nature, Book of Serenity, Absolute-and-Relative, Duality...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 04 1995 6 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
Parinirvana and Our Own Death Nirvana, Birth-and-Death, Four Noble Truths, Nirvana Sutra, Darkness and Light, Light...	Fu Nancy Schroeder	Feb 11 1995 Berkeley Zen Center
Book of Serenity Serial: BZ-00234 Class 1 of 5 Manjushri, Book of Serenity, Big Mind, First Principle, Observe, Discrimination,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 05 1994 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Tozan's Poem Serial: BZ-00962B No Gap; Don't Objectify, Saturday Lecture Tozan, Subject-and-Object, Separation, Practice Period, Subject-and-Object, Book of...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Apr 16 1994 Berkeley Zen Center
Refining Your Life Serial: BZ-01497A Rohatsu Day 3 Tenzo Kyokun, Bell, Sanctuary, Emotions, Book of Serenity, Soto Zen, Discrimination,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 01 1993 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record Case #1: Bodhidharma’s Later Years Serial: BZ-00667A Lecture Bodhidharma, Eka, Buddha Mind, Blue Cliff Record, Book of Serenity, Practice Period,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	May 29 1993 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,...	Michael Wenger	Aug 29 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,...	Lee DeBarros	Jul 25 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Early Zen: Ungan to Tozan Serial: BZ-00604 Class 5 of 6 Heart Sutra, Book of Serenity, Blue Cliff Record, Lineage, Five Ranks, Transmission,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Apr 02 1992 5 Berkeley Zen Center
Early Zen: Bodhidharma to the Fifth Ancestor Serial: BZ-00602 Class 3 of 6 Bodhidharma, Lineage, Transmission, First Principle, Karma, Book of Serenity, Buddha...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Mar 19 1992 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Sandokai; All Equal Serial: BZ-00751B Lecture Instruction, Darkness and Light, Book of Serenity, Right Speech, Precepts,...	Fu Nancy Schroeder	Oct 12 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
October 6th, 1990, Serial No. 01479 Silent Illumination, true dharma, Soto Zen, Daily Life, Samadhi, Book of Serenity,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 06 1990 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
The Book of Serenity Serial: BZ-00239 Class 1 of 5 Duality, Intimacy, Ego, Sixth Patriarch, Subject-and-Object, Non-duality, Four Noble...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	1 Berkeley Zen Center

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