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Pearls Written Family

Serial: BZ-00704B

Women's Sitting

Evil, Separation, Offering
Nov 17 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Encountering the True Dragon

Serial: BZ-00704A

Lecture

Dragons, Anger, Beginners, Posture, Culture, War, Sangha, Interview, Bowing, Lineage...
Nov 16 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Avatamsaka Sutra: The Ten Stages

Serial: BZ-00273

Class 2 of 4

Right Effort, Mindfulness, Light-and-Darkness, Concentration, Culture, Liberation,...
Nov 14 1991
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Wonderful Ramblings on Zen in America

Serial: BZ-00703B

Lecture

American, Building, Heart Sutra, Interview, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Posture,...
Nov 09 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Avatamsaka Sutra: The Ten Stages; First Two Stages

Serial: BZ-00274

Class 1 of 4

Four Noble Truths, Enthusiasm, Passions, Vow, Lineage, Concentration, Practice Period...
Nov 07 1991
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Hui-Neng's Verse to Monk and Laity

Serial: BZ-00703A

Fault Finding, One-Day Sitting

Hui Neng, Precepts, Platform Sutra, Passions, Posture, Hindrances, Lay, Sixth...
Nov 04 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

The Fire, Suffering, and Relationship With Japan

Serial: BZ-00702B

Saturday Lecture

Japan, Current Events, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Demons, Birth-...
Oct 26 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Exacting Practice

Silence, Continuous Practice, Bell, War, Peace, Priest, Addiction, Composure,...
Oct 19 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Sandokai; All Equal

Serial: BZ-00751B

Lecture

Instruction, Darkness and Light, Book of Serenity, Right Speech, Precepts,...
Oct 12 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Effort, Pain and Resistance

Serial: BZ-00751A

Lecture, one day sitting

resistance, Big Mind, Posture, Death-and-Dying, Happiness, Birth-and-Death, Non-...
Oct 05 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Early Days of Suzuki-rôshi

Serial: BZ-00750B

Tokubetsu Sesshin: Japanese and American, Saturday Lecture

Suzuki Roshi, Sesshin, Tokubetsu, Practice Period, American, Transmission, training,...
Sep 28 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #93

Serial: BZ-00750A

True Self is Expressed, Saturday Lecture

BCR-93, Emotions, Gratitude, Enthusiasm, American, Building, War, training
Sep 21 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Bringing Zendo Life to the World

Serial: BZ-00715B

Lecture

Family Practice, Daily Life, Giving-and-Taking, Precepts, Practice Period, Vow,...
Sep 14 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Metta Sutta

Serial: BZ-00715A

Lecture

Enemies, Anger, Mahayana, Equanimity, Greed, Lovingkindness, Happiness, Peace,...
Sep 07 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Why Do We Do Zazen?

Serial: BZ-00714B

Just Say "Yes!", Sesshin Day 3

Zazen, Offering, Birth-and-Death, Ego, Ordinary Mind, Fox, Doubt, Priest, Demons,...
Sep 02 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Book of Serenity: Case #91

Serial: BZ-00714A

More of Dreams, Sesshin Day 2

SER-91, First Principle, Dream World, Subject-and-Object, Dragons, Buddha Nature,...
Sep 01 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #20

Serial: BZ-00694B

Nansen's Flower; Dreaming, Sesshin Day 1

Nansen, BCR-20, Dream World, Separation, Intuition, Attachment, Precepts, American...
Aug 31 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Practices in Everyday Life

Serial: BZ-00694A

Lecture

Cultivation, Culture, Monastic Practice, Right Speech, Bodhisattva Vow, Dharma...
Aug 24 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

“Engaged”: Webster’s as a Buddhist Text

Serial: BZ-00972B

Lecture

Fox, Four Noble Truths, Priest, Right Speech, Right Effort, Funeral, Vow, Soto Zen,...
Aug 17 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Path of Purification, Negative Space, Humanity and Nematoads

Serial: BZ-00972A

Lecture

Concentration, Culture, Doubt
Aug 10 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Mindfulness Straight Through

Serial: BZ-00971B

Lecture

Renunciation, Four Noble Truths, Mindfulness, Mill Valley, Four Foundations, Anger,...
Aug 03 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Bodhisattva Ceremony: Plunging In

Serial: BZ-00971A

Lecture

Confession-and-Repentance, Repentance, Vow, Buddha Ancestors, Three Treasures,...
Jul 27 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Naturalness

Serial: BZ-00970B

Lecture

true dharma, Religion, Composure, resistance, Heart Sutra, Concentration, Daily Life...
Jul 19 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #43

Serial: BZ-00970A

Tozan's "Neither Hot Nor Cold", One-Day Sitting

Tozan, BCR-43, Absolute-and-Relative, Five Ranks, Samsara, Nirvana, training, Enemies...
Jul 14 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Zen and Excitement

Serial: BZ-00968B

Saturday Lecture

Suzuki Roshi, Daily Life, Building, Constancy, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Priest...
Jul 06 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Shusho Ceremony

Serial: BZ-00969

Ceremony

Practice Period, Three Treasures, Giving-and-Taking, Sangha, Attachment, Dragons,...
Jul 01 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Suffering and Intention

Serial: BZ-00968A

Sesshin Day 5

Suffering, Intention, Emotions, Karma, Don't Know Mind, Religion, Lay, Tassajara...
Jun 30 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

What is Sesshin?

Serial: BZ-00967B

Sesshin Day 4

Sesshin, Pure Existence, Building, Peace, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Karma, Happiness...
Jun 29 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00967A

Sesshin Day 3 lecture

New Year, Dharma Transmission, War, Transmission, American, Building, training,...
Jun 28 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Nine Patch Quilt

Serial: BZ-00966B

Sesshin day 2

Half-Smile, Building, Patience, Passions, Continuous Practice, Posture, American,...
Jun 27 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Time-Being

Serial: BZ-00966A

Sesshin Day 1

Time-Being, Dream World, Pure Existence, Doubt, Peace, Non-discrimination, Intuition...
Jun 26 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen’s “Zenki”: Undivided Activity; Zenki and Shoji

Serial: BZ-00275

Class 3 of 3

Birth-and-Death, Equanimity, Separation, Teacher-and-Student, Fasting, Fox, Funeral,...
Jun 13 1991
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen’s “Zenki”: Undivided Activity

Serial: BZ-00276

Class 2 of 3

Birth-and-Death, Subject-and-Object, Interview, Duality, Religion, War, Emotions,...
Jun 06 1991
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen’s “Zenki”: Undivided Activity

Serial: BZ-00277

Class 1 of 3

Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature, Thoroughness, Religion, Separation, Obstacles, Lay,...
May 23 1991
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00726

Lecture part 2, part 1 is missing

Hindrances, Addiction, Practice Period, Buddha Nature, Anger, Doubt, Lay, Ego,...
May 13 1991
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Paying Attention to Your Life

Serial: BZ-00701B

Lecture

Ordination, Bowing, Bell, Heart Sutra, Lineage, uchiyama, Priest, Chanting,...
May 04 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #10

Serial: BZ-00701A

Sesai is "Poor" and Asks Sozan for Help, Saturday Lecture

MM-10, Culture, Teacher-and-Student, resistance, Birth-and-Death, Priest, Soto Zen,...
Apr 27 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Fundamentals and Practicality of Zazen

Serial: BZ-00700B

One-Day Sitting

Zazen, Harmonizing, Posture, Buddha Nature, Peace, resistance, confusion, Instruction...
Apr 21 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Pali Canon Sutra on Right View (Middle Way)

Serial: BZ-00700A

Lecture

Heart Sutra, Attachment, Doubt, causation, Hate, training, Lay
Apr 13 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #23

Serial: BZ-00692B

"Neither Good Not Evil;" Intentions, Humbleness, Saturday Lecture

Humility, MM-23, Sixth Patriarch, Humility, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Dharma Transmission...
Mar 30 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Guidelines

Serial: BZ-00692A

Immersing/Obstructing in the Way, Saturday Lecture

Absolute-and-Relative, Non-duality, resistance, Lotus Sutra, Intuition, Birth-and-...
Mar 23 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Guidelines

Serial: BZ-00691B

No Gaining Idea, Discernment, Sesshin Day 2

Gaining Mind, Shingi, Bell, Don't Know Mind, Gaining Mind, Buddha Nature,...
Mar 17 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

All Being and Our Sense of Self

Serial: BZ-00691A

Sesshin Day 1

Birth-and-Death, Impermanence, Buddha Nature, Ego, Platform Sutra, Priest, Religion,...
Mar 16 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

The “Stuff” of Life and Waking Up

Serial: BZ-00690B

Lecture

Daily Life, Renunciation, training, Samsara, Beginners, Happiness, Observe, Doubt,...
Mar 09 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Fundamentalism, Prayer, Orthodoxy: Science and Religion

Serial: BZ-00690A

Lecture

Hate, Religion, First Principle, Evil, Doubt, Samsara, Mahayana, Politics,...
Mar 02 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra: Thoughts on Emptiness

Serial: BZ-00264

Class 4 of 4

Heart Sutra, Chanting, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Subject-and-Object, Evil, Bell...
Feb 28 1991
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Persian Gulf War

Serial: BZ-00689B

Saturday Lecture

Current Events, War, Politics, Precepts, training, Priest, Peace, Addiction,...
Feb 23 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra: Skanda, Form and Emptiness

Serial: BZ-00265

Class 3 of 4

Heart Sutra, Hindrances, Anger, Passions, Skandas, Four Noble Truths, causation,...
Feb 21 1991
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Parinirvana

Serial: BZ-00689A

Eight Aspects of an Enlightened Being, One-Day Sitting

Parinirvana, Eight Aspects, Nirvana, Eight Aspects, Concentration, Duality, Greed,...
Feb 16 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra: Paramitas, Skandas, Emptiness, Bodhisattva Way

Serial: BZ-00266

Class 2 of 4

Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Hindrances, Don'...
Feb 14 1991
2
Berkeley Zen Center

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