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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

Tozan’s Five Ranks: Basic Overview

Serial: BZ-00607

Class 2 of 4

Tozan, Dongshan, Five Ranks, Absolute-and-Relative, Lotus Sutra, Karma, Emotions,...
May 21 1992
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00713B

Sesshin Day 2

American, Monastic Practice, Demons, Culture, Silence, Lineage, Religion
May 18 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

What is Buddha?

Serial: BZ-00713A

Sesshin Day 1

Buddha, Big Mind, Practice Period, Daily Life, Buddha Nature, Absolute-and-Relative,...
May 17 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Transmission of Light

Serial: BZ-00213

Class 2 of 5

true dharma, Transmission, Nirvana, Dharma Transmission, Buddha Nature, Manjushri,...
May 13 1992
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00712B

Lecture

Silence, confusion, Emotions, Anger, Greed, Funeral, Discrimination, Conversation,...
May 09 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Enthusiasm on the Path

Serial: BZ-00710A

Lecture

Four Foundations, Enthusiasm, Mindfulness, American, Peace, Emotions, Anger
May 03 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

After the King Verdict

Serial: BZ-00712A

Saturday Lecture

Current Events, Karma, Culture, Peace, War, training, Offering, American, confusion,...
May 02 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Zazen Instruction

Serial: BZ-00680B

First Friday

Zazen, Posture, Beginners, Teacher-and-Student, Daily Life, Concentration, Nirvana,...
May 01 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Harmonizing Body, Breath, and Mind

Serial: BZ-00680A

One-Day Sitting

Posture, Harmonizing, Concentration, Separation, Don't Know Mind, Subject-and-...
Apr 26 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

The Death Penalty (discussion)

Serial: BZ-00679B

Saturday Lecture

Current Events, Precepts, cognitive process, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Diversity, Priest...
Apr 18 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Early Zen: Dogen

Serial: BZ-00605

Class 6 of 6

Lotus Sutra, Silent Illumination, Doubt, Rinzai, Instruction, Six Realms, true dharma...
Apr 09 1992
6
Berkeley Zen Center

Attention, Thought, Faith, Knowledge

Serial: BZ-00679A

Lecture

Concentration, Daily Life, Don't Know Mind, Observe, Anger, Patience, Enemies,...
Apr 04 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Early Zen: Ungan to Tozan

Serial: BZ-00604

Class 5 of 6

Heart Sutra, Book of Serenity, Blue Cliff Record, Lineage, Five Ranks, Transmission,...
Apr 02 1992
5
Berkeley Zen Center

Shen Shu and Daikan Eno: Enlightenment Poems

Serial: BZ-00678B

Relative and Ultimate Reality; Sudden and Gradual Enlight., Saturday Lecture

Daikan Eno, Enlightenment, Sixth Patriarch, Four Noble Truths, Daily Life, Priest,...
Mar 28 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Early Zen: Sixth Patriarch, Sudden and Gradual Enlightenment

Serial: BZ-00603

Class 4 of 6

Platform Sutra, Branching Streams, Four Noble Truths, Perfect Wisdom, Sixth Patriarch...
Mar 26 1992
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Lotus Sutra; Forms

Serial: BZ-00678A

Lecture

Lotus Sutra, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Perfect Wisdom, Bodhisattva Vow, Dragons...
Mar 21 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Early Zen: Bodhidharma to the Fifth Ancestor

Serial: BZ-00602

Class 3 of 6

Bodhidharma, Lineage, Transmission, First Principle, Karma, Book of Serenity, Buddha...
Mar 19 1992
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Ordination(s)

Serial: BZ-00677B

Reminiscences of the Old Days, Sesshin Day 2

Ordination, Priest, Precepts, Lay, Priest-and-Lay, Ordination, Bodhisattva Precepts,...
Mar 18 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Giving and Taking, Empty Ground Manifests; No Future

Serial: BZ-00677A

Inaction of Action, Action in Inaction, Sesshin Day 1

Giving-and-Taking, Teacher-and-Student, Lotus Sutra, Nirvana, Daily Life, Buddha...
Mar 17 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Ordination

Serial: BZ-00958B

One-Day Sitting

Ordination, Priest, Precepts, Priest-and-Lay, Lay, Ordination, Anger, Bodhisattva...
Mar 15 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

One Treasure

Serial: BZ-00958A

One-Day Sitting

Teacher-and-Student, Lotus Sutra, Nirvana, Daily Life, Buddha Nature, causation, Ego...
Mar 14 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Early Zen: Lankavatara and Lotus Sutras

Serial: BZ-00651

Class 2 of 6

Lotus Sutra, Buddha Nature, Mahayana, Nirvana, Karma, Eight Awarenesses, Heart Sutra...
Mar 12 1992
2
Berkeley Zen Center

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