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Innumerable People’s Labors who Helped the Spread of Buddhism Throughout History

Serial: BZ-00656A

Lecture

Diversity, Religion, Politics, Culture, American, Priest, Vinaya, Ordination,...
Oct 02 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Problems and Practice with Ritual

Serial: BZ-00657B

Lecture

Culture, Bowing, American, confusion, Chanting, Practice Period, Precepts, training,...
Sep 25 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #2

Serial: BZ-00657A

Joshu's "The Way Is Not Difficult", Saturday Lecture

Joshu, BCR-2, confusion, Attachment, Hate, Buddha Nature, Daily Life, Emotions,...
Sep 18 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Conference of Buddhist Teachers: Ryozan Enkan’s Dragons (Keizan’s Denkoroku)

Serial: BZ-00629B

Lecture

Dragons, Blue Cliff Record, Enemies, Instruction, Teacher-and-Student, Heart Sutra,...
Sep 11 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

How to Do Chanting Practice

Serial: BZ-00629A

Sesshin Day 3

Chanting, Chanting, Bell, Heart Sutra, training, Lay Practice, Five Ranks, Posture,...
Sep 06 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Obaku's Address to the Monks

Serial: BZ-00628B

There Are No Zen Teachers in This Realm, Sesshin Day 2

Obaku, Koan, training, Non-discrimination, Rinzai, Dragons, Bowing, Bell, American...
Sep 05 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

1993 Parliament of World Religions

Serial: BZ-00628A

Seeking Common Ground, Sesshin Day 1

Religion, Current Events, Religion, American, Politics, Separation, Buddha Nature,...
Sep 04 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Mind and Heart of Practice in Daily Life

Serial: BZ-00627B

Lecture

training, Oneness, Anger, Enemies, Lineage, Evil, Hate, Precepts, Posture, Religion...
Aug 28 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Mind and Body in Zen and Yoga Practice

Serial: BZ-00627A

Lecture

Posture, Concentration, Instruction, Anger, Lay, Duality, training, Beginners, Sangha...
Aug 21 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Lay Practice in Malaysia: Mindfulness and Loving Kindness

Serial: BZ-00655B

Lecture

Monastic Practice, Precepts, Religion, American, Emotions, Mindfulness, Daily Life,...
Aug 14 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

You’re OK as You Are: Dogen’s Tenno Kyokun

Serial: BZ-00655A

Lecture

Subject-and-Object, Separation, Instruction, Greed, Soto Zen, Hate, Dragons, Silence...
Aug 07 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Book of Serenity Case #24: Commentary on Student’s Response to a Teacher

Serial: BZ-00654B

Lecture

Pure Existence, Obstacles, Posture, Teacher-and-Student, Transmission, Instruction,...
Jul 31 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Fukan Zazen-gi: Dust and Cataracts are the Flowers of Emptiness

Serial: BZ-00654A

Lecture

Anger, Instruction, Emotions, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Concentration,...
Jul 24 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

The Spiritual Life is Not Separate from the Mundane

Serial: BZ-00668B

Saturday Lecture

Emptiness, Happiness, Mundane Life, Greed, Teacher-and-Student, Religion,...
Jul 18 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Zuigan's Wake Up Call

Serial: BZ-00668A

Saturday Lecture

Zuigan, War, Greed, Daily Life, Oneness, Hate, Offering, Doubt, Anger, Karma, Ego...
Jul 10 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Chaos Theory, Hierarchy Theory and Buddhism

Mill Valley, Culture, Mindfulness, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Conversation,...
Jul 03 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Chaos Theory, Hierarchy Theory

Serial: BZ-01515B

Lecture

Mill Valley, Observe, Culture, Mindfulness, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Jul 03 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Consistency and the Path to Destiny

Serial: BZ-00669A

Saturday lecture 

Berkeley Zen Center, Constancy, confusion, Practice Period, Chanting, Passions,...
Jun 19 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Shusho Hossen Ceremony

Serial: BZ-00671

Ceremony

Bodhidharma, Practice Period, Bell, Giving-and-Taking, Renunciation, Ordinary Mind,...
Jun 15 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Practice and Boredom

Serial: BZ-00670A

Sesshin Day 5

Zazen, Stillness, Daily Life, Pure Existence, Doubt, Posture, Soto Zen, Separation,...
Jun 13 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #19

Serial: BZ-00652B

What is the Way?, Sesshin Day 4

MM-19, Ordinary Mind, Hindrances, Doubt, Aspects of Practice, Humility, Enemies,...
Jun 12 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Zazengi II

Serial: BZ-00652A

Sesshin Day 3

Fukanzazengi, Concentration, Posture, Subject-and-Object, Observe, Samadhi, Daily...
Jun 11 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Tree Practice

Serial: BZ-00653B

Sesshin Day 2

Birth-and-Death, Interdependence, Bodhidharma, Buddha Ancestors, Lay, Dragons,...
Jun 10 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Fukanaazengi: Zazen Instructions

Serial: BZ-00653A

Sesshin Day 1

Fukanzazengi, Zazen, Posture, Concentration, Anger, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Jun 09 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Sozan's Poem: Dragons Sing in the Dry Wood

Serial: BZ-00667B

Saturday Lecture

Sozan, Precepts, Dragons, Continuous Practice, Bodhisattva Precepts, Bodhisattva Way...
Jun 05 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Transmission of Light

Serial: BZ-00218

Class 5 of 5

Offering, Five Ranks, Ordinary Mind, Dragons, Commitment, Buddha Ancestors, Sixth...
Jun 03 1993
5
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,...
May 29 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Transmission of Light

Serial: BZ-00219

Class 4 of 5

Buddha Nature, Offering, Evil, Eight Awarenesses, Lineage, Buddha Ancestors, Duality...
May 27 1993
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Transmission of Light: The 38th Ancestor Seigen Gyoshi; Not Getting Caught in Stages

Serial: BZ-00666B

Saturday Lecture

Seigen Gyoshi, Liberation, Lineage, Buddha Nature, Bodhidharma, Current Events, Don...
May 22 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Transmission of Light

Serial: BZ-00214

Class 3 of 5

Attachment, Passions, Four Noble Truths, Offering, Buddha Nature, Lineage, Don't...
May 20 1993
3
Berkeley Zen Center

A Reworking of the Prajna Paramita Sutra in 8000 Lines

Serial: BZ-00666A

Lecture

Perfect Wisdom, Buddha Nature, Heart Sutra, Buddha Mind, Subject-and-Object,...
May 17 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Keizan’s Transmitting Light; Tung Shan: the Teaching of Inanimate Things

Serial: BZ-00665B

Lecture

Attachment, Discrimination, Lotus Sutra, War, Birth-and-Death, Practice Period,...
May 15 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record Case #1: Bodhidharma’s Coming from the West

Serial: BZ-00665A

Lecture

Bodhidharma, Family Practice, Practice Period, Buddha Mind, Dharma Transmission,...
May 08 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Transmission of Light

Serial: BZ-00212

Class 1 of 5

true dharma, Monastic Practice, Transmission, Buddha Nature, Teacher-and-Student,...
May 06 1993
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Practice Period: Renewing One's Commitment to Practice

Serial: BZ-00664B

One-Day Sitting

Practice Period, Daily Life, Commitment, Big Mind, Practice Period, Zoom, Building...
May 01 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Bringing Practice into Everyday Life

Serial: BZ-00664A

Lecture

Right Speech, American, confusion, Birth-and-Death, Practice Period, Precepts,...
Apr 24 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Introduction to Buddhism

Serial: BZ-00270

Class 6 of 6

Four Noble Truths, Enemies, Mahayana, Impermanence, Anger, Attachment, Monastic...
Apr 22 1993
6
Berkeley Zen Center

Self Esteem, No Self: Personality and Enlightenment

Serial: BZ-00663A

Saturday Lecture

Teacher-and-Student, Bodhisattva Way, Bodhisattva Vow, confusion, Bell, Conversation...
Apr 17 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Introduction to Buddhism

Serial: BZ-00271

Class 5 of 6

Mindfulness, Right Speech, Right Effort, Concentration, Four Noble Truths, Mahayana,...
Apr 15 1993
5
Berkeley Zen Center

Non-Attachment as Distinct from Detachment

Serial: BZ-00662B

One-Day Sitting

Non-attachment, Attachment, Peace, Commitment, Passions, Pure Existence, Observe,...
Apr 10 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Introduction to Buddhism

Serial: BZ-00268

Class 4 of 6

Concentration, Composure, Mindfulness, Precepts, Interdependence, Four Noble Truths,...
Apr 01 1993
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Mindfulness: the Satipattana Sutra

Serial: BZ-00662A

Lecture

Mindfulness, Observe, Daily Life, Separation, Concentration, Posture, Duality,...
Mar 27 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Introduction to Buddhism

Serial: BZ-00269

Class 3 of 6

Precepts, Concentration, Mindfulness, Soto Zen, Impermanence, zen meditation,...
Mar 25 1993
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Prajapati and the Ordination of Women: Respecting the Life of the Unborn

Serial: BZ-00285B

Women's Sitting

Priest, Ordination, Happiness, Precepts, Culture, Religion, War, Lay
Mar 21 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Tea Ceremony: The Meeting of Host and Guest

Serial: BZ-00285A

Lecture

Intimacy, New Year, Monastic Practice, Teacher-and-Student, Silence, American,...
Mar 20 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Introduction to Buddhism

Serial: BZ-00262

Class 2 of 6

Four Noble Truths, Culture, Attachment, Impermanence, Dependent Origination, Right...
Mar 18 1993
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Priest Practice and Lay Practice

Serial: BZ-00661B

Sesshin Day 2

Practice, Priest-and-Lay, Priest, Lay Practice, Priest-and-Lay, Lay, Ego, Enemies,...
Mar 14 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Lay Ordination and Priest Ordination

Serial: BZ-00661A

Sesshin Day 1

Ordination, Priest-and-Lay, Priest, Ordination, Lay, Lay Practice, Karma, Commitment...
Mar 13 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Introduction to Buddhism

Serial: BZ-00263

Class 1 of 6

Four Noble Truths, Culture, Nirvana, Religion, Karma, Enthusiasm, Anger, Hindrances,...
Mar 11 1993
1
Berkeley Zen Center

The Four Modes or Categories of Master Rinzai

Serial: BZ-00649B

Saturday Lecture

Rinzai, Mindfulness, Discrimination, Daily Life, Constancy, Aspects of Practice, Ego...
Mar 06 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

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