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Four Noble Truths and Prison Food

Right Effort, Four Noble Truths, Right Speech, Concentration, Mindfulness,...
Jun 02 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Emptiness

Serial: BZ-00102A

Saturday Lecture

Emptiness, Heart Sutra, Interdependence, Ego, Chanting, Duality, Composure,...
May 26 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Breath

Serial: BZ-00101A

Saturday Lecture

Breath, Maylie Scott, Daily Life, Liberation, Harmonizing, Practice Period, Don'...
May 19 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Memories of Maylie

Four Noble Truths, Right Speech, Peace, Daily Life, American, Priest, Silence,...
May 12 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Practicing with Impermanence: Reference to Maylie’s Illness

Berkeley Zen Center, Rumi, Priest, Impermanence, Birth-and-Death, Instruction,...
May 05 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Releasing Ourselves in Life and Death

Serial: BZ-00100B

Saturday Lecture

Birth-and-Death, Posture, Emotions, Karma, Attachment, Zoom, Continuous Practice,...
Apr 28 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Three Natures

Serial: BZ-00099B

Saturday Lecture

Pure Existence, Daily Life, Big Mind, Two Truths, Discrimination, Ego, confusion,...
Mar 24 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #36

Serial: BZ-00099A

Meeting a Person of the Way, One-Day Sitting

BCR-36, Silence, Monastic Practice, Big Mind, Enemies, Bell, Intimacy, Demons,...
Mar 18 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Discrimination, Non-discrimination, and Essence of Mind

Serial: BZ-00098A

Saturday Lecture

Discrimination, Discrimination, Dream World, Attachment, Posture, Platform Sutra,...
Mar 17 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Purity of the Boddhisattva

Bodhisattva Way, Berkeley Zen Center, Sangha, Bell, Posture, Cultivation, Manjushri,...
Mar 10 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Hui Neng’s Idealessness/Non-objectification, Non-attachment

Attachment, Karma, Non-attachment, Karmic Consequences, Buddha Nature, Enemies,...
Mar 03 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Hongzi (Zen Master)

Silent Illumination, Instruction, Daily Life, Cultivation, confusion, Branching...
Feb 24 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Essence of Mind & the Five Hinderances

Serial: BZ-00130A

One-Day Sitting

Hindrances, Hindrances, Daily Life, Doubt, Big Mind, Nirvana, Attachment, Buddha...
Feb 19 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Way Seeking Mind: Trappist, Coptic, Buddhist

Priest, Ordination, Vow, Culture, Monastic Practice, Chanting, Religion, American,...
Feb 17 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Never Disparaging

Lotus Sutra, Bowing, Discrimination, Anger, Karma, Happiness, Evil, Nirvana,...
Jan 27 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Monk/Fox and The Law of Karma

Serial: BZ-00129A

One-Day Sitting

Hyakujo, Monks, Fox, Karma, Fox, causation, Karma, Dependent Origination, Birth-and-...
Jan 20 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,...
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,...
Jan 05 2001
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Interview with Sojun Mel Weitsman

Serial: BZ-00128

Interview 1 of 3

Dharma Transmission, Priest, Transmission, training, Religion, Ordination, Building,...
Jan 05 2001
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Zendo Cooking

Serial: BZ-00482

Class 4 of 4

Bell, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Doubt, Harmonizing, Ego
2001
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Zendo Cooking

Serial: BZ-00483

Class 3 of 4

Bell, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period, Hate, Offering, Forgiveness,...
2001
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Zendo Cooking

Serial: BZ-00484

Class 2 of 4

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period, War, Culture, Instruction, American,...
2001
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Zendo Cooking

Serial: BZ-00485

Class 1 of 4

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Conversation, Instruction, Monastic Practice, Bell,...
2001
1
Berkeley Zen Center

What is Hard Practice?

Serial: BZ-00127B

Rohatsu Day 6

Posture, Monastic Practice, Emotions, Continuous Practice, Attachment, Enthusiasm,...
Dec 09 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Hongzhi's Second Method

Serial: BZ-00127A

Rohatsu Day 5

Hongzhi, Buddha Nature, Emotions, Aspects of Practice, Instruction, Lay, Dragons,...
Dec 08 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #68

Serial: BZ-00126B

Buddha's Silence, Rohatsu Day 4

BCR-68, Birth-and-Death, Karma, Non-duality, Silence, Doubt, Bodhidharma,...
Dec 07 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Oryoki

Serial: BZ-00126A

Rohatsu Day 3

Oryoki, Priest, Continuous Practice, Lay, Chanting, confusion, Hate, Building...
Dec 06 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Hongzhi's Practice Instructions

Serial: BZ-00125B

Rohatsu Day 2

Hongzhi, Practice, Birth-and-Death, Dependent Origination, Ordinary Mind, Instruction...
Dec 05 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #36

Serial: BZ-00125A

Um-mon's “Everyone has their Light”, Rohatsu Day 1

Ummon, BCR-36, Doubt, Buddha Nature, Subject-and-Object, Gaining Mind, Don't...
Dec 04 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Preparing/Not Preparing for Sesshin

Serial: BZ-00124B

Saturday Lecture

Sesshin, Ego, Demons, Emotions, Posture, Equanimity, Buddha Nature, Obstacles,...
Dec 02 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Birth and Death: Dogen’s Zenki and Shoji

Serial: BZ-00486

Class 4 of 4

Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature, Nirvana, Hate, Samsara, Darkness and Light, Six...
Nov 30 2000
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Tozan and Aspects of Self

Practice Period, Giving-and-Taking, Four Noble Truths, Liberation, Soto Zen, Building...
Nov 25 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Sun-face Buddha, Moon-face Buddha

Serial: BZ-00123B

Saturday Lecture

 

Buddha, Koan, Buddha Nature, Blue Cliff Record, Thoroughness, Priest, Ordinary Mind,...
Nov 18 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Birth and Death: Dogen’s Zenki and Shoji

Serial: BZ-00487

Class 3 of 4

Birth-and-Death, Continuous Practice, Duality, Oneness, Karma, Sixth Patriarch,...
Nov 16 2000
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Zazen and Desire

Posture, Bodhisattva Vow, Vow, Rumi, Bowing, Peace, Cultivation, Patience, Oneness...
Nov 11 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Birth and Death: Dogen’s Zenki and Shoji

Serial: BZ-00488

Class 2 of 4

Birth-and-Death, Monastic Practice, Ego, Separation, Vow, Demons, Mahayana, Observe,...
Nov 09 2000
2
Berkeley Zen Center

How Love Drives the World

Serial: BZ-00122B

Saturday Lecture

Love, Emotions, Hate, Anger, Buddha Nature, War, Ego, Attachment, Peace, Cultivation...
Nov 04 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Birth and Death: Dogen’s Zenki and Shoji

Serial: BZ-00489

Class 1 of 4

Birth-and-Death, Vow, Attachment, Big Mind, Samsara, Bodhisattva Vow, Four Noble...
Nov 02 2000
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Rules for Being Human--Opening of Practice Period

Serial: BZ-00122A

One-Day Sitting

Obstacles, Karma, Enthusiasm, Vow, Don't Know Mind, confusion, Hate, Offering,...
Oct 29 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Abhidharma, Six Factors, Two Aspects

Serial: BZ-00121B

Saturday Lecture

Abhidharma, Intuition, Practice Period, Composure, Hate, Building, Anger, Samadhi,...
Oct 28 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Monks Training in Thailand

Concentration, Lineage, training, Current Events, Culture, Instruction, War,...
Oct 21 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

The Diamond Sutra: Commentary

Serial: BZ-00918

Class 5 of 5

Offering, Attachment, Mindfulness, Liberation, Karma, Sixth Patriarch, Passions,...
Oct 14 2000
5
Berkeley Zen Center

The Diamond Sutra: Commentary

Serial: BZ-00916

Class 4 of 5

Anger, Karma, Attachment, Nirvana, Liberation, Obstacles, Four Noble Truths, Vow,...
Oct 07 2000
4
Berkeley Zen Center

The Diamond Sutra: Commentary

Serial: BZ-00920

Class 3 of 5

Karma, Offering, Lotus Sutra, Renunciation, Bodhisattva Vow, Skandas, Liberation, Vow...
Sep 30 2000
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Recommendations for Fall Practice Period

Serial: BZ-00120A

Saturday Lecture

Practice Period, Practice Period, Birth-and-Death, Ego, Intimacy, Commitment,...
Sep 30 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

The Diamond Sutra: Commentary

Serial: BZ-00917

Class 2 of 5

Offering, Attachment, Passions, Anger, Karma, Nirvana, Nirvana Sutra, Impermanence,...
Sep 23 2000
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Why Do We Practice?

Serial: BZ-00083B

Saturday Lecture

Practice, Don't Know Mind, Ego, Monastic Practice, Big Mind, Manjushri,...
Sep 09 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

The Diamond Sutra: Commentarty

Serial: BZ-00919

Class 1 of 5

Offering, Skandas, Attachment, Mahayana, Vow, Nirvana, Heart Sutra, Liberation,...
Sep 09 2000
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #2

Serial: BZ-00083A

Nondiscriminating Mind within Discrimination, Sesshin Day 3

Discrimination, BCR-2, Discrimination, Dragons, Non-discrimination, Attachment, Hsin...
Sep 04 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Codependent Chain of Origination: Why We Sit

Serial: BZ-00082B

Sesshin Day 2

Dependent Origination, Zazen, Dependent Origination, Birth-and-Death, Attachment, Ego...
Sep 03 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

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