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Blue Cliff Record: Case #80

Serial: BZ-01142B

Joshu's New-born Babe, Part II, Sesshin Day 4

Joshu, BCR-80, Big Mind, Discrimination, Ego, Karma, Non-discrimination, Buddha Mind...
Jun 21 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #80

Serial: BZ-01140

Joshu's the New-born Babe Part I, Sesshin Day 2

Joshu, BCR-80, Emotions, Continuous Practice, Birth-and-Death, Karma, Ego, Attachment...
Jun 19 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Changing Your Karma

Serial: BZ-01136

from "Not Always So" by Suzuki-roshi, Saturday Lecture

Suzuki Roshi, Karma, Karma, Nirvana Sutra, Practice Period, Offering, Meal Serving,...
May 31 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Zazen Instruction

Serial: BZ-01134

Bansan

Zazen, Instruction, Posture, Aspects of Practice, Instruction, Ego
May 23 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Maylie Scott: Life and Death

Serial: BZ-01131

Seven Year Memorial Day Reminiscence

Birth-and-Death, Priest, Building, Dharma Transmission, Lay, Liberation, Transmission...
May 10 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Zazen in Practice Period:

Serial: BZ-01129

Posture, Breath, Mind, One-Day Sitting

Posture, Discrimination, Practice Period, Subject-and-Object, confusion, Duality,...
May 04 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #3: Introduction to Kôan Study

Serial: BZ-01128

Baso's Sun-face Buddha, Moon-face Buddha, Saturday Lecture

Buddha, Baso, BCR-3, First Principle, Duality, Non-duality, Buddha Nature, Non-...
May 03 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Overview of Practice Period

Serial: BZ-01127

Requirements - Intention - Commitment, Saturday Lecture

Practice Period, Intention, Practice Period, Commitment, Daily Life, Family Practice...
Apr 26 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Find Out the Root of the Problem for Yourself

Serial: BZ-01118

Dokan and Gyoji: Let one teacher help you find your solution, Saturday Lecture

Continuous Practice, Aspects of Practice, Continuous Practice, training, Intuition,...
Mar 01 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #63

Serial: BZ-01113

Nansen Kills the Cat, Saturday Lecture

Nansen, BCR-63, Karmic Consequences, Karma, Buddha Nature, Silence, Forgiveness,...
Feb 09 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Zazen, Sanshimopo, and Doshin: Foundations of Practice

Serial: BZ-01112

Shikantaza, Guidance, and Way-Seeking Mind, Saturday Lecture

Shikantaza, Zazen, Way-Seeking Mind, Ego, Continuous Practice, Teacher-and-Student,...
Feb 02 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

3 Topics: Takuhatsu, Identity Action, Ryokan Plays with Children

Serial: BZ-01110

Part 1 of 2

teaching retreat

Separation, Soto Zen, American, Gratitude, Mahayana, Transmission, Discrimination,...
Jan 26 2008
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Ryokan

Serial: BZ-01111

Teaching Retreat

part 2 of 2

Offering, Silence, New Year, Hate, Passions, Separation, Conversation, Peace,...
Jan 26 2008
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Practice at Berkeley Zen Center

Serial: BZ-01108

Taking a Position, Saturday Lecture

Practice Position, Humility, Monastic Practice, Beginners, Don't Know Mind,...
Jan 12 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Buddha's Enlightenment

Serial: BZ-01105

Rohatsu Day 7

Enlightenment, Buddha, Buddha Nature, Daily Life, Duality, Interdependence,...
Dec 08 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Our Sphere of Practice

Serial: BZ-01103

Nonseparation of Zazen and Worldly Activity, Rohatsu Day 5

Practice, Politics, Zazen, War, SER-12, War, Diversity, Evil, Religion, Building,...
Dec 06 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

True Humility and Buddha's Practice

Serial: BZ-01101

Bare Attention and Not Anticipating, Rohatsu Day 3

Practice, Shikantaza, Humility, Buddha Mind, Hindrances, Don't Know Mind, Anger...
Dec 04 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

The Shape of Buddhanature: Essence in Form

Serial: BZ-01100

Clarifying Illumination of Enlightenment, Rohatsu Day 2

Practice, Enlightenment, Humility, Buddha Nature, Buddha Mind, Don't Know Mind,...
Dec 03 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Illumination of Zazen

Serial: BZ-01099

Absorption in the Treasury of Light, Rohatsu Day 1

Zazen, BCR-, Silent Illumination, Light-and-Darkness, Samadhi, Manjushri, Intuition,...
Dec 02 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Three Bodies of Buddha

Serial: BZ-01098

Saturday Lecture

Trikaya, Buddha Mind, Buddha Nature, Dogen, Manjushri, Continuous Practice, Dragons,...
Dec 01 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Taking Care: Paramitas, Precepts and Eightfold Path

Serial: BZ-01003

Illumination Without Hindrance, Saturday Lecture

Precepts, Vinaya, Buddha Nature, Bodhisattva Precepts, Platform Sutra, Hindrances,...
Oct 13 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #61

Serial: BZ-01002

Raising a Particle of Dust, Saturday Lecture

Sangha, Community, BCR-61, Dragons, Soto Zen, Teacher-and-Student, Silence, Lineage,...
Oct 06 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Balancing the Spiritual and Material Wheels:

Serial: BZ-01001

The Protests in Burma, Saturday Lecture

Balance, Politics, Burma, War, American, Soto Zen, Fundraising, Lay, Chanting,...
Sep 29 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Tenzo Kyokun

Serial: BZ-00994B

Teaching Retreat, part 1 of 2

Tenzo Kyokun, Ego, Monastic Practice, Concentration, Anger, Blue Cliff Record,...
Sep 02 2007
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Tenzo Kyokun

Serial: BZ-00995

Teaching Retreat, part 2 of 2

Tenzo Kyokun, Birth-and-Death, Offering, Chanting, Lay, Passions, Continuous Practice...
Sep 02 2007
2
Berkeley Zen Center

"Cooking Your Life" (Uchiyama and Dogen): Meeting the Source

Serial: BZ-00992

Teaching Retreat, part 1 of 2

Tenzo Kyokun, Practice Position, Practice Position, Intuition, Discrimination,...
Sep 01 2007
1
Berkeley Zen Center

"Cooking Your Life": Commentary

Serial: BZ-00993A

Teaching Retreat, part 2 of 2

Tenzo Kyokun, Practice Period, Monkey Mind, Intuition, Buddha Nature, Ego, Separation...
Sep 01 2007
2
Berkeley Zen Center

BCR: Case #75: "Ukyû's Unfair Blows"

Serial: BZ-00990

Kid Zendo, Saturday Lecture

Ukyu, BCR-75, Giving-and-Taking, Teacher-and-Student, Absolute-and-Relative, Bell,...
Aug 18 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

How to Practice

Serial: BZ-00989

Being Creative in Practice, Saturday Lecture

Practice, Creativity, Monastic Practice, Subject-and-Object, Daily Life, Big Mind,...
Aug 11 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

BCR: Case #74: "Kingyu Osho-Rice Pot" (Dear Bodhisattvas)

Serial: BZ-00988

BCR: Case #93: "Taiko's 'You For Devil'", Saturday Lecture

BCR-74, Buddha Mind, Gratitude, Fox, Monastic Practice, Dogen, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Aug 04 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

The Five Powers of Practice and How They Interact

Serial: BZ-00986

Kid Zendo: Zen: inside and outside the circle's center, Saturday Lecture

Practice, Concentration, Mindfulness, Daily Life, Intuition, Mahayana, Instruction,...
Jul 21 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Responding with Openness to Love and Hate

Serial: BZ-01445

And Other Opposites, Saturday Lecture

Love, Hate, Composure, Hate, Teacher-and-Student, Attachment, Precepts, Equanimity,...
Jun 30 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

No Gaining Mind

Serial: BZ-01444

Sesshin Day 5

Pure Existence, Ego, Dream World, Gaining Mind, Discrimination, Big Mind, Practice...
Jun 24 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

What Is It That Comes?

Serial: BZ-01443

Nangaku Ejo asks Daikan Eno, Sesshin Day 4

Nangaku Ejo, Daikan Eno, Koan, Gaining Mind, Monastic Practice, Practice Period,...
Jun 23 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Seigen Gyoshi asks Daikan Eno about:

Serial: BZ-01441

Falling Into Classifications, Sesshin Day 2

Seigen Gyoshi, Daikan Eno, Discrimination, Gaining Mind, Four Noble Truths, Teacher-...
Jun 21 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #76

Serial: BZ-01440

Tanka's "Have You Eaten Yet?", Sesshin Day 1

Tanka, BCR-76, Birth-and-Death, Light-and-Darkness, Lay Practice, Karma, Teacher-and-...
Jun 20 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Fundraising History of Berkeley Zen Center Development

Serial: BZ-01438

Saturday Lecture

Berkeley Zen Center, Fundraising, Building, Fundraising, Priest, Tassajara Zen...
Jun 02 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

This Is It

Serial: BZ-01436A

Saturday Lecture

Mindfulness, Koan, Karma, Doubt, confusion, Big Mind, Instruction, Religion, Priest,...
May 19 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Faith in Buddhism: Introduction

Serial: BZ-01053A

Class, 1 of 5

Subject-and-Object, Doubt, Religion, Mahayana, First Principle, Concentration, Buddha...
May 17 2007
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Guidelines for Practice Period

Serial: BZ-01435

Lay Practice Period--Practice your self, not study the self, One-Day Sitting

Practice Period, Practice Period, Pure Existence, Lay Practice, Patience, Daily Life...
May 12 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Six Factors of Zazen

Serial: BZ-01431

One-Day Sitting

Zazen, Concentration, Birth-and-Death, Daily Life, Emotions, Samadhi, Posture,...
Apr 15 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #2 Joshu on Hsin Hsin Ming

Serial: BZ-01430

"I alone am the holy one throughout heaven and earth", Saturday Lecture

Joshu, Attachment, Hsin Hsin Ming, BCR-2, Discrimination, Attachment, Non-...
Apr 14 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Buddha's Birthday

Serial: BZ-01429

(and songs sung by the children), Saturday Lecture

Buddha's Birthday, Birth-and-Death, Buddha's Birthday, Renewal, Separation...
Apr 07 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Attachment and Non-attachment

Serial: BZ-01428

Blue Cliff Record: Case #2 Nansen's "What is the Way?", Saturday Lecture

Attachment, Non-attachment, Nansen, Mumonkan, BCR-2, Attachment, Diversity, Ordinary...
Mar 31 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Letter and Spirit of Rules and Regulation

Serial: BZ-01427

Dogen's Eihei Shingi, Saturday Lecture

Brahmaviharas, Equanimity, Passions, Hate, Religion, Buddha Nature, Ego, Big Mind,...
Mar 24 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Sojun Gives Chanting Instruction

Serial: BZ-01051

Class

Chanting, Bell, Hate
Mar 03 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Acupuncture Point of Zazen: Beating the cart or beating the horse

Serial: BZ-01423

Saturday Lecture

Zazenshin, Dogen, Lineage, Separation, Dharma Transmission, Dogen, Transmission,...
Mar 03 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Enlightenment as Everyday Life; "Nothing Special"

Serial: BZ-01421

Koun Ejô and Suzuki-roshi commentaries, Sesshin Day 3

Enlightenment, Koun Ejô, Samadhi, Daily Life, Thoroughness, Continuous Practice,...
Feb 19 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Nothing Outside of Practice

Serial: BZ-01420

"Treasury of Radiant Light Samadhi" by Koun Ejô, Sesshin Day 2

Samadhi, Dream World, Darkness and Light, Renunciation, Samadhi, Chanting, resistance...
Feb 18 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Buddha's Parinirvana

Serial: BZ-01419

Sesshin Day 1

Parinirvana, Nirvana, Lotus Sutra, Greed, Mahayana, Four Noble Truths, Doubt,...
Feb 17 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

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