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Title	Speaker	Date
Priest and Lay Practice Serial: BZ-01325 Saturday Lecture Practice, Priest-and-Lay, Priest, Lay, Ordination, Lay Practice, Dharma Transmission...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 28 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Perceptions of Understanding: The Five Skandas Silence, Bodhidharma, Lay, Practice Period, Bowing, Oneness, Priest, Lay Practice,...	Ross Blum	Apr 23 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
On Race Serial: BZ-00601 Sesshin Day 7 Diversity, Culture, Lay, Discrimination, Hate, Soto Zen, Silence, confusion, Bell,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 29 2005 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
Heart Sutra: Practicing Nonattainment Serial: BZ-01316C Saturday Lecture Transmission, Lay Practice, Priest, Politics, Lay, Hindrances, Heart Sutra,...	Raul Moncayo	Mar 26 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Fukanzazengi: A Positive Mental Attitude Serial: BZ-01314B Saturday Lecture zen meditation, Soto Zen, Nirvana Sutra, true dharma, Buddha Nature, Concentration,...	Ron Nestor	Mar 19 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Way Seeking Mind Pt. 4 Serial: BZ-00588 Lecture, second half of part 4 Sojun Mel Weitsman, Way-Seeking Mind, Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Lay Practice...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 15 2005 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
March 15th, 2005, Serial No. 01572 Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Lay Practice, Monastic Practice, Doubt, Ordination...		Mar 15 2005
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
Ryokan and the Virtues of a Simple Life Serial: BZ-01301C Saturday Lecture Dharma Transmission, Lay, Priest-and-Lay, Soto Zen, Transmission, Gratitude, Practice...	Ross Blum	Jan 15 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Not Holding on to the Stream: Platform Sutra Serial: BZ-01290B One Day Sitting Silence, Silent Illumination, Emotions, Platform Sutra, Soto Zen, Subject-and-Object...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Nov 20 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Aspects of Practice: Dogen Serial: BZ-01029A Class 3 of 4 Bodhisattva Ceremony, Lay Practice, Lay, Buddha Ancestors, Aspects of Practice,...	Denkei Raul Moncayo	Nov 11 2004 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Women Ancestors Serial: BZ-01287 Saturday Lecture Dana, Soto Zen, Aspects of Practice, Practice Period, Lay, Forgiveness, Rinzai,...	Laurie Senauke	Oct 30 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Diamond Sutra: No Beings to Save, No Attributes Serial: BZ-00565 Class 4 of 4 Daily Life, Lay, Patience, Enemies, Lineage, Passions, Discrimination, Evil, Nirvana...	Peter Overton and Laurie Senauke	Oct 14 2004 4 Berkeley Zen Center
History of Soto Zen: First Dharma Heritage Ceremony Serial: BZ-01283C Zuisse Ceremony and Dharma Transmission, Saturday Lecture Zuisse, Soto Zen, Dharma Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Religion,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 09 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Lay Ordination Serial: BZ-01266 Saturday Lecture Zaike Tokudo, Three Refuges, Precepts, Priest, Big Mind, Ordination, Lay Practice,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 12 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Guidelines for Studying the Way: Dogen’s Gakudo Yojin-Shu Serial: BZ-01024A Class 3 of 5 Teacher-and-Student, Greed, Bodhidharma, Chanting, Soto Zen, Instruction, Religion,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 27 2004 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Enlightenment as a Touchstone of Practice Serial: BZ-01262 Saturday Lecture training, Bowing, Practice Position, Lay, Bell, Posture, Aspects of Practice,...	Ross Blum	May 01 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
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
Dogen’s Eihei Shingi: Pure Standards for the Zen Community Serial: BZ-00578 Class 1 of 5 Monastic Practice, Lay Practice, Cultivation, Aspects of Practice, Dragons, Don'...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 29 2004 1 Chapel Hill Zen Center
Dogen’s Eihei Shingi: Pure Standards for the Zen Community Serial: BZ-00581 Class 4 of 5 resistance, Instruction, Monastic Practice, Lay Practice, Offering, Lay, Posture,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 29 2004 4 Chapel Hill Zen Center
Dogen’s Eihei Shingi: Pure Standards for the Zen Community Serial: BZ-00582 Class 5 of 5 Funeral, Birth-and-Death, Lay, Buddha Ancestors, Karma, Offering, Sixth Patriarch,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 29 2004 5 Chapel Hill Zen Center
Trip to Japan: Sotoshu Formal Initiation Serial: BZ-01378 Saturday Lecture training, Soto Zen, Priest-and-Lay, Right Effort, New Year, American, Peace, Priest,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jan 03 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Eihei Shingi: The Kanin Serial: BZ-01373 Rohatsu Day 4 Eihei Shingi, Buddha's Birthday, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, New Year, Lay...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 04 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Fukanzazengi Serial: BZ-01015A Class 2 of 4 Lay, Posture, Dharma Transmission, zen meditation, Lineage, Observe, Transmission,...	Ross Blum	Nov 06 2003 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Trip to Japan (last two weeks of Oct. 2003) Serial: BZ-01365 The Necessity of both Oneness and Diversity, Saturday Lecture Oneness, Japan, Fox, Priest, Lay, Soto Zen, Ordination, Diversity, Precepts, Lay...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 01 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Renunciation Serial: BZ-01350 One-Day Sitting Renunciation, Lotus Sutra, Renunciation, Silent Illumination, Posture, Concentration...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 20 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Seven Factors of Enlightenment: Energy, Rapture, Tranquility Serial: BZ-00292 Class 4 of 5 Happiness, Gaining Mind, Karma, Concentration, Precepts, Posture, Lay, Nirvana,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 05 2003 4 Berkeley Zen Center
Lay Ordination, Lay Recognition, Precepts Serial: BZ-00137 Saturday Lecture Precepts, Lay Ordination, Buddha Nature, Priest, Dharma Transmission, Bodhisattva...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 31 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
The Spirit of Practice Period Serial: BZ-01527B Saturday Lecture Practice Period, Practice Period, Aspects of Practice, Enemies, Lay, Commitment,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 03 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Introduction to Zen: 6th Ancestor and Five Schools of Zen Serial: BZ-00297 Class 2 of 4 Teacher-and-Student, Transmission, Mundane Life, First Principle, Lineage, Sixth...	Ross Blum and Laurie Senauke	Apr 17 2003 2 Berkeley Zen Center
World Peace Serial: BZ-00133A Anti-Iraq War/Peace March Talk, One-Day Sitting Peace, War, Current Events, stubbornness, Forgiveness, War, Peace, Religion,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 16 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Enneagram and Meditation: Nine Defensive Styles of Meditation Serial: BZ-00464 Class 3 of 4 Emotions, Anger, Equanimity, Separation, Don't Know Mind, Ego, Passions, Buddha...	Santikaro Bhikku	Mar 01 2003 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Hymn of Prajna Paramita: Practicing Peace Serial: BZ-00172A Lecture, Closing Aspects of Practice Don't Know Mind, Peace, War, Enemies, confusion, American, training, Lay...	Rebecca Mayeno	Nov 23 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Genjokoan: Everyday Practice Serial: BZ-00171B Lecture Aspects of Practice, Daily Life, true dharma, Lay, Lay Practice, Conversation, Lotus...	Mary Mocine	Nov 16 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Consciousness in Buddhist Practice Serial: BZ-00171A Lecture Big Mind, Interdependence, Subject-and-Object, Anger, Karma, Lay, Heart Sutra,...	Raul Moncayo	Nov 09 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
How to Practice as a Lay Person Serial: BZ-00152B Saturday Lecture Lay Practice, Precepts, Big Mind, Lay, Bodhisattva Precepts, Daily Life, Monastic...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 29 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
How to Draw Sound From the Bell Serial: BZ-00152A Sesshin Day 5 Bell, Bell, Precepts, Soto Zen, Chanting, Mindfulness, Practice Period, Doubt, Lay,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 23 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Kinhin and Bowing Serial: BZ-00151A Sesshin Day 3 Kinhin, Bowing, Attachment, Monastic Practice, Priest, Lay, Practice Period, Anger,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 21 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Lay Ordination Serial: BZ-00149B Saturday Lecture Lay Ordination, Precepts, Ordination, Buddha Nature, Bodhisattva Way, Buddha...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 15 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Instructions for the Cook: Tenzo Kyokun; Stages of Buddhism, History at Start Serial: BZ-00451 Class 3 of 5 Offering, Practice Period, Lotus Sutra, War, Priest, Lay, Branching Streams,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 30 2002 3 Berkeley Zen Center
May 30th, 2002, Serial No. 01012, Side B Offering, Practice Period, Lotus Sutra, War, Lay, Bodhisattva Way, true dharma,...		May 30 2002
Buddha's Parinirvana Serial: BZ-00139A One-Day Sitting Parinirvana, Nirvana, Birth-and-Death, Obstacles, Precepts, Liberation, Buddha Nature...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 16 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen’s Kokyo: the Eternal Mirror Serial: BZ-00470 Class 4 of 4 Passions, Attachment, Gratitude, Intuition, Concentration, Instruction, Religion,...	Robert Rosenbaum	Feb 14 2002 4 Berkeley Zen Center
Suzuki Roshi Serial: BZ-00063A Rohatsu Day 5 Ego, Precepts, Posture, training, Sangha, Lay, Practice Period, Duality, Non-duality...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 06 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Mumonkan: Case #35 Serial: BZ-00093B Saturday Lecture MM-35, Buddha Nature, Buddha Mind, Separation, Rinzai, Karma, Lay, Samsara,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 27 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen's Zazengi Serial: BZ-00086A Ego and Consciousness, Saturday Lecture Zazengi, Consciousness, Ego, Four Noble Truths, Discrimination, Ego, Concentration,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 18 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Interview with Sojun Mel Weitsman Serial: BZ-00067 Interview 3 of 3 Priest, training, Four Noble Truths, Fundraising, Renunciation, Dharma Transmission,...	Shannon Hickey and Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 08 2001 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Interview with Sojun Mel Weitsman Serial: BZ-00068 Interview 2 of 3 Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Priest, Precepts, training, Priest-and-Lay,...	Wakoh Shannon Hickey, Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 05 2001 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Hongzhi's Second Method Serial: BZ-00127A Rohatsu Day 5 Hongzhi, Buddha Nature, Emotions, Aspects of Practice, Instruction, Lay, Dragons,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 08 2000 Berkeley Zen Center

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