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Ten Precepts: Overview and First Precept

Serial: BZ-00616

Class 1 of 6

Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Lineage, Mahayana, Ordination, Bodhidharma, Monastic...
Jan 14 1993
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Practicing with Problems and Demons

Serial: BZ-01519

Monkey, It's a Wonderful Life, Saturday Lecture

Practice, Demons, New Year, Anger, Monkey Mind, Offering, Repentance, Hindrances,...
Jan 02 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Darkness and Light: The Winter Holiday

Light-and-Darkness, Darkness and Light, Five Ranks, Discrimination, Samsara, Teacher-...
Dec 19 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Shakyamuni Buddha

Serial: BZ-00645B

Lecture

Concentration, Nirvana, Culture, Buddha Nature, Attachment, Beginners, Posture,...
Dec 12 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00645A

Rohatsu Day 7

resistance, Doubt, stubbornness, Duality, Fundraising, Harmonizing, Obstacles,...
Dec 06 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Nurturing the Jewel Essence Within

Serial: BZ-00644B

Lecture

Buddha Ancestors, American, Don't Know Mind, Peace, Bell, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Nov 28 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Red Shoes

Serial: BZ-00644A

Women's Sitting

Addiction, Subject-and-Object, Passions, Vow, Hate, Culture
Nov 22 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

The Fallow Field, Grassroots and the Ginko: The Being that Refused to Evolve

Serial: BZ-00643B

Lecture

Practice Period, Non-violence, War, Interdependence, Vow, Doubt, Avalokiteshvara,...
Nov 21 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Iron Flute: Heat in Summer, Head Cold in Winter

Serial: BZ-00643A

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Getting Real: After Putting Another Head on Your Head

Iron Flute: Heat in Summer, Head Cold in Winter...

Hate, Teacher-and-Student, Attachment, Transmission, Daily Life, Conversation,...
Nov 14 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Bodhisattva Ceremony

Serial: BZ-00642B

One Day Sitting

Precepts, Karma, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Repentance, Vow, Renewal, Bell, Sangha, Hate,...
Nov 08 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Hongzhi (Zen Master)

Serial: BZ-00642A

Saturday Lecture

Hongzhi, Priest, Priest-and-Lay, Silent Illumination, Lay, Practice Period,...
Oct 31 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Folk Tale of the Woman and the Crescent Moon Bear

Serial: BZ-00641B

Lecture

Obstacles, Anger, Vow, Four Noble Truths, War, Absolute-and-Relative, Bodhisattva Vow...
Oct 23 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Paramitas: Prajna (Wisdom)

Serial: BZ-00615

Class 6 of 6

Four Noble Truths, Dependent Origination, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Heart Sutra...
Oct 22 1992
6
Berkeley Zen Center

Who am I? What is Zazen? Turning to Life: A Cow Turns Water into Milk, A Snake, Into Venom

Serial: BZ-00641A

Lecture

Peace, Right Speech, Right Effort, Concentration, Precepts, Priest, Addiction, Greed...
Oct 17 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Paramitas: Dhyana (Meditation)

Serial: BZ-00614

Class 5 of 6

Concentration, Hindrances, Mindfulness, Instruction, Death-and-Dying, zen meditation...
Oct 15 1992
5
Berkeley Zen Center

The Dragon Who Never Sleeps: Taisho on Gathas and their Use

Serial: BZ-00640

Lecture

Vow, resistance, Priest, Bodhisattva Precepts, Right Speech, Lay, Mahayana, Evil,...
Oct 12 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Balance: Relax Your Mind

Serial: BZ-00639B

Lecture

Culture, Buddha Nature, Samsara, Gratitude, Bodhidharma, Evil, Concentration, Bell,...
Oct 10 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Paramitas: Virya (Effort)

Serial: BZ-00613

Class 4 of 6

Right Effort, Enemies, Attachment, Patience, Birth-and-Death, confusion, Practice...
Oct 08 1992
4
Berkeley Zen Center

The Paramitas

Serial: BZ-00639A

One day sitting

Happiness, Right Effort, Offering, Enthusiasm, Mindfulness, Patience, Heart Sutra,...
Oct 03 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Paramitas: Sila (Virtue) and Kshanti (Patience)

Serial: BZ-00612

Class 3 of 6

Anger, Precepts, Patience, Ordinary Mind, Enemies, Emotions, Dependent Origination,...
Oct 01 1992
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Silence and Poetry

Serial: BZ-00638B

Lecture

Silence, Don't Know Mind, resistance, Concentration, Peace, Emotions, Politics,...
Sep 26 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Paramitas: Dana (Giving) and Sila (Virtue)

Serial: BZ-00611

Class 2 of 6

Precepts, Addiction, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Heart Sutra, Right Speech, Hindrances,...
Sep 24 1992
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #44

Serial: BZ-00638A

Hoshan's Knowing How to Beat the Drum, Saturday Lecture

BCR-44, Daily Life, Attachment, Buddha Mind, Don't Know Mind, Teacher-and-...
Sep 19 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Paramitas: Dana, Bodhisattva Context

Serial: BZ-00610

Class 1 of 6

Mahayana, Mindfulness, Silence, Subject-and-Object, Aspects of Practice, Blue Cliff...
Sep 17 1992
1
Berkeley Zen Center

The Path of Purification: The Dynamic, Not Static Nature of Virtue in Buddhamind

Serial: BZ-00637B

Lecture

Buddha Mind, Religion, Politics, Non-violence, Doubt, Concentration, American, Peace...
Sep 12 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Kajo Fascicle in Shogobenzo Continued

Serial: BZ-00637A

Sesshin Day 3

Dogen, Shobogenzo, Buddha Ancestors, Dharma Transmission, Doubt, Building, Enthusiasm...
Sep 07 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Kajo Fascicle in Shogobenzo

Serial: BZ-00636B

Everyday Activity: Drinking Tea and Eating Rice, Sesshin Day 2

Shobogenzo, Daily Life, Buddha Ancestors, Non-duality, Doubt, War, Peace
Sep 06 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Family, Friends, and Practice

Serial: BZ-00636A

Sesshin Day 1

Family Practice, Mundane Life, Family Practice, Daily Life, American, Anger,...
Sep 05 1992
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,...
Aug 29 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan: Manifesting Larger Being Through Small Being

Serial: BZ-00635A

Lecture

Subject-and-Object, Big Mind, Absolute-and-Relative, Duality, Religion, Impermanence...
Aug 22 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan Case #42: What is a Zen Student? Manjusri and the Young Woman in Samadhi

Serial: BZ-00634A

Lecture

Manjushri, Building, Karma, Enthusiasm, Discrimination, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center...
Aug 15 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Sutta Nippatta: Early Teaching of Nonattachment to View, Self; Attentiveness to Actual and Ideal

Serial: BZ-00634B

Lecture

Mindfulness, Demons, Nirvana Sutra, Commitment, Liberation, Bell, Nirvana, Posture,...
Aug 08 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan Case #30: Baso’s This Very Mind is Buddha

Serial: BZ-00633B

Lecture

Buddha Mind, stubbornness, Instruction, Buddha Nature, Transmission, Hate, Posture,...
Aug 01 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,...
Jul 25 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Is Buddha Happy? Harmony, Universal Logic

Serial: BZ-00632A

Communion and Communication cont., Saturday Lecture

Happiness, Composure, American, Buddha Mind, Demons, Ego, Politics, Sangha,...
Jul 18 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Communion and Communication

Serial: BZ-00631B

Saturday Lecture

First Principle, Discrimination, Intuition, Duality, Bodhisattva Precepts, Monastic...
Jul 11 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Shusho Hossen

Serial: BZ-00630

Ceremony

Giving-and-Taking, Bodhidharma, Absolute-and-Relative, Dragons, stubbornness,...
Jun 28 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Criticism in the Realm of Absolute and Relative

Serial: BZ-00631A

Sesshin Day 5

Absolute-and-Relative, Absolute-and-Relative, Big Mind, Discrimination, Emotions, Ego...
Jun 28 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan: Seeing Forms with the Whole Body and Mind

Serial: BZ-00727B

No Gap, Flexibility, Pain, Sesshin Day 4

Separation, Thoroughness, Discrimination, Ego
Jun 27 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record Case #1

Serial: BZ-00727A

Sesshin Day 3

Bodhidharma, Duality, Avalokiteshvara, Samsara, Silence, Building, Ego
Jun 26 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan

Serial: BZ-00709B

Sesshin Day 2

Genjokoan, Buddha Nature, Duality, Samsara, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Non-duality,...
Jun 25 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan

Serial: BZ-00709A

Sesshin Day 1

Genjokoan, Duality, Birth-and-Death, Non-duality, Emotions, Practice Period,...
Jun 24 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan Cases #30 & 33: Baso’s Two Responses: Buddha is Mind, Buddha is not Mind

Serial: BZ-00708B

Lecture

Intuition, Culture, Transmission, Ordinary Mind, Subject-and-Object, Teacher-and-...
Jun 20 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Shosan Ceremony

Serial: BZ-00708A

Ceremony

Shosan, Forgiveness, Right Effort, Silence, Practice Period, Gratitude, Peace,...
Jun 15 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #45: Who Is that Other?

Serial: BZ-00711B

Buddha and Maitreya Are Servants to Another, Saturday Lecture

Buddha, Maitreya, MM-45, Ego, Anger, Five Ranks, Absolute-and-Relative, Bodhisattva...
Jun 13 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Tozan’s Five Ranks: Tozan’s Five Poems in 3 Translations

Serial: BZ-00609

Class 4 of 4

Dragons, Five Ranks, Attachment, Birth-and-Death, Culture, Ego, Buddha Nature, New...
Jun 11 1992
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #19

Serial: BZ-00711A

Ordinary Mind Is the Way, Saturday Lecture

Ordinary Mind, MM-19, Ordinary Mind, Doubt, confusion, Religion, Hate, Culture,...
Jun 07 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Tozan’s Five Ranks: Five Positions, Eight Consciousnesses

Serial: BZ-00608

Class 3 of 4

Birth-and-Death, Karmic Consciousness, Diversity, Discrimination, Buddha Nature, Ego...
Jun 04 1992
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan: First Five Lines and Tozan's Five Ranks: Desire and Intention

Serial: BZ-00710B

Saturday Lecture

Genjokoan, Tozan, Five Ranks, Desire, Ego, Buddha Nature, Big Mind, Harmonizing,...
May 30 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Tozan’s Five Ranks: Eight Consciousnesses, Four Wisdoms

Serial: BZ-00606

Class 1 of 4

Discrimination, Five Ranks, Subject-and-Object, Concentration, Ego, Buddha Nature,...
May 28 1992
1
Berkeley Zen Center

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