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What is the Basis of our Activity

Serial: BZ-02300

Why Do We Chant?, Saturday Lecture

Chanting, Suzuki Roshi, Dogen, Sixth Patriarch, training, Lay Practice, Priest,...
Mar 30 2013
Berkeley Zen Center

Sandokai Lecture One

Serial: BZ-02291

Part 1 of 4

Composure, Discrimination, Branching Streams, Darkness and Light, Light-and-Darkness...
Feb 16 2013
1

Sandokai Lecture Two

Serial: BZ-02293

Part 2 of 4

Discrimination, Birth-and-Death, Happiness, Anger, Oneness, Separation, Composure,...
Feb 16 2013
2

Six Qualities from the Abhidhamma

Serial: BZ-02289

Tranquility, Agility, Pliancy, Workableness, Proficiency, Saturday Lecture

No-Self, Abhidharma, Zazen, Daily Life, Composure, Nirvana, Hindrances, Attachment,...
Feb 02 2013
Berkeley Zen Center

Serving Practice

Serial: BZ-02283

Rohatsu Day 6

Pure Existence, Duality, Bowing, Intimacy, Bell, Composure, Practice Period, War,...
Dec 07 2012
Berkeley Zen Center

Sandokai Lecture Five

Serial: BZ-02282

Couplet 5 cont'd, Rohatsu Day 5

Composure, Monastic Practice, resistance, Instruction, Ego, Big Mind, Bell, Offering...
Dec 06 2012
Berkeley Zen Center

Nirvana-The Death of the Ego

Serial: BZ-02230

Buddha's Parinirvana, Sesshin Day 1

Suzuki Roshi, Teacher-and-Student, Fearlessness, Separation, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana...
Feb 18 2012
Part 1 of 2
Berkeley Zen Center

Sitting With The Busy Mind

Concentration, Right Effort, Composure, Posture, Impermanence, Mindfulness, Gratitude...
Dec 06 2011

Monastic Practice

Serial: BZ-02216

The Law of Circularity, Saturday Lecture

Wearing down Self-centeredness, Jizo's Compassion, Tiger's Cave

 

Emptiness, Jizo, Compassion, Monastic Practice, Daily Life, Demons, Building,...
Nov 26 2011
Berkeley Zen Center

Monastic Practice

Serial: BZ-02206

Founding of Tassajara, Saturday Lecture

Bodhisattva, Suzuki Roshi, Monastic Practice, Practice Period, Composure, American,...
Sep 24 2011
Berkeley Zen Center

Sesshin Mind - What Is It

Serial: BZ-02187

  Shuso talk Sesshin Day 3

Ordinary Mind, Big Mind, Monkey Mind, Practice Period, confusion, Posture, Emotions,...
Jun 17 2011

Ordinary Mind - Practice and Composure

Serial: BZ-02184

Shuso talk

Composure, Ordinary Mind, Doubt, Daily Life, Practice Period, Silent Illumination,...
Jun 11 2011

Japan Catastrophe

Serial: BZ-02165

Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear Fallout, One-Day Sitting

Karma, Japan, Current Events, Karma, Repentance, Vow, Renewal, Composure, Interview,...
Mar 19 2011
Berkeley Zen Center

You Can't Make a Date with Enlightenment

Serial: BZ-02149

Not Always So, Rohatsu Day 7

Sangha, Duality, Intuition, Composure, Buddha Nature, Humility, Continuous Practice,...
Dec 11 2010
Berkeley Zen Center

Minor Precepts-Shingi

Serial: BZ-02139

Precepts, Saturday Lecture

Precepts, Shingi, Precepts, Forgiveness, Humility, Renunciation, Conversation,...
Nov 13 2010
Berkeley Zen Center

The Painting of a Rice Cake

Hindrances, Composure, Intuition, Oneness, Liberation, Silence, Posture, training,...
Sep 05 2010

Composure and Composition

Composure, Four Noble Truths, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Mindfulness, Practice...
Jun 05 2010

Guidelines for Practice

Serial: BZ-02098

One-Day Sitting

Forgiveness, Practice Period, Composure, Continuous Practice, true dharma, Lay...
May 15 2010
Berkeley Zen Center

The Short Cycle of Causation

Composure, training, Book of Serenity, Aspects of Practice, Impermanence, Precepts,...
May 08 2010

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...
Mar 27 2010
Berkeley Zen Center

Hokyo Zammai Class

Absolute-and-Relative, Discrimination, Transmission, Five Ranks, Subject-and-Object,...
Feb 25 2010
2

Vashubandu Class

Serial: BZ-02082

Class 1 of 4

Anger, Doubt, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Religion, Subject-and-Object, Nirvana, Daily Life...
Feb 14 2010
1

Commemorating Buddha's Enlightenment

Serial: BZ-02074

Seven Factors of Enlightenment, Rohatsu Day 7

Abhidharma, Genjokoan, Vasubandhu, Ego, Birth-and-Death, Five Ranks, Anger, Nirvana,...
Dec 12 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

The Landscape of the Self

Attachment, Non-attachment, Ego, Anger, Hate, Composure, Patience, Bowing, resistance...
Aug 29 2009

Growing Up

Composure, Discrimination, Non-discrimination, Priest, Silence, Passions,...
Jul 25 2009

Case #7 - Wash Your Bowl

Serial: BZ-02027

Saturday Lecture

BCR-7, Family Practice, Transmission, Bell, Daily Life, Building, Emotions,...
May 02 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Zazen to Become a Buddha

Serial: BZ-02022

Sitting for 10 Kalpas and Not Attaining Buddha, Saturday Lecture

Bodhisattva, MM-9, Karma, Bodhisattva Way, Lotus Sutra, Peace, Bodhidharma, Big Mind...
Mar 28 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Six Paramitas

Serial: BZ-02021

Dealing with Suffering, Sesshin

Attachment, Patience, Non-attachment, Precepts, Big Mind, Renunciation, Manjushri,...
Mar 21 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Zen Compassion

Passions, Emotions, Anger, Four Noble Truths, Book of Serenity, Five Ranks, Hate,...
Mar 07 2009

Zazen Fukanzazengi

Instruction, Posture, Book of Serenity, Buddha Mind, Dharma Transmission, Composure,...
Mar 01 2009

Shikantaza - Basic Zen Practice

Serial: BZ-02017

Saturday Lecture

Shikantaza, Continuous Practice, Pure Existence, Composure, Teacher-and-Student,...
Feb 28 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Bicycle Wheel Dharma, Serial No. 01089

Birth-and-Death, Ordinary Mind, Ego, Obstacles, Composure, Soto Zen, Daily Life,...
Jan 31 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Bicycle Wheel Dharma

Serial: BZ-02014

Saturday Lecture

Birth-and-Death, Ordinary Mind, Ego, Obstacles, Composure, Daily Life, Duality,...
Jan 31 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Letting Go

Serial: BZ-02011

Saturday Lecture

Big Mind, Composure, Birth-and-Death, Monastic Practice, Continuous Practice,...
Jan 10 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Beginners and Beginning: Self sufficiency: Serial No. 01084

Beginners, Composure, Light-and-Darkness, New Year, Bodhisattva Vow, Buddha Ancestors...
Jan 03 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Platform Sutra: Non attachment within attachment: Serial No. 01081

Serial: BZ-01081

Rohatsu, Day 5, side B

Attachment, Samadhi, Composure, Discrimination, Offering, Non-attachment, Platform...
Dec 11 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Platform Sutra: Non Attachment within Attachment

Serial: BZ-01451

Rohatsu, Day 5

Attachment, Discrimination, Samadhi, Composure, Manjushri, Offering, Non-attachment,...
Dec 11 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Platform Sutra of 6th Ancestor Hui Neng

Serial: BZ-02008

Non-attachment Within Attachment, Rohatsu Day 5

Hui Neng, Attachment, Discrimination, Non-attachment, Composure, Offering, Platform...
Dec 11 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind themes: Open, Big Mind in Activity, Composure, Emotions

Serial: BZ-01073

One-Day Sitting

Big Mind, Composure, Emotions, Zen Mind Beginner's Mind, Big Mind, Posture,...
Nov 15 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Zen Mind, Beginners Mind

Aspects of Practice, Posture, Big Mind, Practice Period, Composure, Anger, Ego,...
Nov 15 2008

Zen Mind Beginngers Mind: Transiency; Serial No. 01165

Nirvana, Composure, Impermanence, Nirvana Sutra, Samsara, Priest, Teacher-and-Student...
Oct 18 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,...
Jan 12 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

July 7th, 2007, Serial No. 00984

Concentration, Buddha Nature, Right Effort, Impermanence, Mundane Life, Heart Sutra,...
Jul 07 2007

Responding with Openness to Love and Hate

Serial: BZ-01445

And Other Opposites, Saturday Lecture

Love, Hate, Composure, Hate, Teacher-and-Student, Attachment, Precepts, Equanimity,...
Jun 30 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

May 24th, 2007, Serial No. 01054, Side A

Manjushri, Heart Sutra, Buddha Nature, Cultivation, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Ordinary...
May 24 2007

November 30th, 2006, Serial No. 01404

Buddha Nature, Composure, Daily Life, Dependent Origination, Nirvana, Concentration,...
Nov 30 2006

Gratitude for Adversity

Serial: BZ-01400B

The Nun and the Stars, Saturday Lecture

Gratitude, Composure, Non-duality, Hate, Enemies, Continuous Practice, War, Anger...
Nov 25 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

November 18th, 2006, Serial No. 01399

Precepts, Vow, Bodhisattva Precepts, Composure, Liberation, Bodhisattva Vow,...
Nov 18 2006

State of the World Address: Causes and Excuses

Serial: BZ-01175

Power: Manipulation Through Maintaining Chaos, Saturday Lecture

Politics, Religion, War, Peace, Evil, Emotions, Anger, Attachment, Forgiveness,...
Jul 22 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

July 13th, 2006, Serial No. 01173

Birth-and-Death, Practice Period, Family Practice, Composure, Concentration, Daily...
Jul 13 2006

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