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Title	Speaker	Date
Denko Roku 1: Shakyamuni Serial: BZ-02662 Study Sesshin Day 1 - *true dharma, Transmission, Liberation, Nirvana, Dogen, Soto Zen, Chanting, Buddha Nature,...*	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 16 2019
Taking Refuge Serial: BZ-02661 - *Impermanence, Heart Sutra, Conversation, Four Foundations, resistance, Mindfulness, Buddha...*	Mary Duryee	Feb 09 2019
What Is Most Important For You In This Life We are all creating the space together for people to have profound experience in zazen. Kind and unkind thoughts are opportunities to express the Buddha mind. Compassion towards wholesome and unwholesome thoughts are dharma doors... - Compassion, Buddha Mind, Mill Valley, Gratitude, Repentance, Enemies, Nirvana, Attachment...	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Feb 02 2019 PM No Abode Hermitage
What Is Most Important For You In This Life Being clear about our ultimate concern. Remember, aspire, commit to, and train to realise this. The story of Tong-an and Liangshan: what is the business under the patched robe? Intimacy. Another version of the story has the... - Vow, Eihei Koso Hotsuganmon, Buddha Mind, Intimacy, Book of Serenity, Buddha Mind, Intimacy,...	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Feb 02 2019 AM No Abode Hermitage
Innermost Request Serial: BZ-02660 - *Heart Sutra, Instruction, Nirvana, Intimacy, Mahayana, Posture, training*	Peter Overton	Feb 02 2019
Three Turnings of the Wheel Serial: BZ-02659 - *Mahayana, Bodhisattva Vow, cognitive process, Vow, Gratitude, Four Foundations, Tassajara Zen...*	Laurie Senauke	Jan 26 2019
Drifting Thoughts, Stepping Back - Temporal and Eternal Mind Serial: BZ-02658 - *Big Mind, Ego, Karma, Gratitude, Discrimination, Samadhi, Renewal, Rinzai, Interview, Duality...*	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 19 2019
Negative Capability Sesshin Serial: BZ-02657 - *training, Bodhisattva Vow, Doubt, Aspects of Practice, Heart Sutra, Vow, American, Commitment...*	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jan 12 2019
Zen Training Serial: BZ-02656 - *training, Practice Position, Posture, Instruction, Gaining Mind, New Year, Bell, Evil,...*	Susan Marvin	Jan 05 2019
Being Shuso and Learning to Say Yes Serial: BZ-02655 - *Practice Period, Don't Know Mind, Buddha Nature, training, Lay, Patience, Bowing,...*	Ellen Webb	Dec 15 2018
The New Coffin Summary of the unrecorded morning talk. The practice of just sitting. Remembering stillness, letting go of 'what next.' Training to ready for this moment, and for death. - Death-and-Dying, Stillness, Bell, Silence	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Dec 15 2018 PM No Abode Hermitage
Way-Seeking Mind Talk Serial: BZ-02870 - *Death-and-Dying, Berkeley Zen Center, Conversation, Hate, Vow, Precepts, Lay*...	Jakusho Jed Appleman	Dec 14 2018
Buddha's Enlightment Serial: BZ-02654 Rohatsu Day 7 - *Duality, Attachment, Non-discrimination, Soto Zen, Composure, Discrimination, Intimacy,...*	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 08 2018
This Sesshin was Wonderfully Done Serial: BZ-02653 Rohatsu Day 6 - *Silence, Big Mind, Priest, Vow, Offering, Doubt, Culture, Lay, Ego*	Mary Duryee	Dec 07 2018
Provider of Many and Varied Opportunities To Experience and Penetrate the Arising and Cessation of Suffering Serial: BZ-02652 Rohatsu Day 5 - *Impermanence, Anger, Mindfulness, Monkey Mind, Vow, Demons, Greed, Happiness, Birth-and-Death...*	Gerry Oliva	Dec 06 2018
Merit Gathas by Robert Aitken: The Dragon Who Never Sleeps Serial: BZ-02651 Rohatsu Day 4 - *Bell, Vow, Offering, Bodhidharma, Priest-and-Lay, Buddha Mind, Soto Zen, Aspects of Practice,...*	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 05 2018
Arousing the Thought of Enlightenment Serial: BZ-02650 Rohatsu Day 3 - *Instruction, Lotus Sutra, Bodhisattva Vow, Vow, Don't Know Mind, Subject-and-Object,...*	Hozan Alan Senauke	Dec 04 2018
Birth, Death and Breath Serial: BZ-02649 Rohatsu Day 2 - *Birth-and-Death, Concentration, Duality, Passions, Peace, Ego, Impermanence, Bell, Doubt...*	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 03 2018
Six Qualatative Factors as Applied to Zazen Serial: BZ-02648 Rohatsu Day 1 - Posture, Big Mind, Nirvana, Peace, Anger, Equanimity, stubbornness, Instruction, War...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 02 2018
Precepts Serial: BZ-02647 - *Precepts, Karma, Anger, Monastic Practice, Samadhi, Birth-and-Death, Sangha, Intuition,...*	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 01 2018
Introduction to Joshu Serial: BZ-02646 - *Ordinary Mind, Passions, Hindrances, Patience, confusion, Culture, Karma, Gratitude, Bell,...*	Mary Mocine	Nov 24 2018
Compassion Flexibility the Victims of Paradise Serial: BZ-02645 - *Building, Global Warming, Right Speech, Offering, American, Happiness, Religion, Ego,...*	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 17 2018
The Hands And Eyes Of Avalokiteshvara Compassion is the teaching of the Buddha. Stories of the different statues and scrolls at No Abode. Yunmen and Daowu, the thousand arms of Avalokiteshvara. - Compassion, Avalokiteshvara, Transmission, Silence, Avalokiteshvara, Perfect Wisdom, Heart...	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Nov 10 2018 AM No Abode Hermitage
Being Time Serial: BZ-02644 - *Buddha Nature, Sixth Patriarch, Doubt, Equanimity, Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Non-...*	Shinshu Roberts	Nov 10 2018
Maylie Scott Bears the Unbearable Sesshin: Close Aspects of Practice Serial: BZ-02643 - *Berkeley Zen Center, Peace, Conversation, Transmission, Offering, Dharma Transmission, Aspects...*	Hozan Alan Senauke	Nov 03 2018
Choosing Aliveness: Zen's Relational Path Serial: RB-02032 Sesshin The November 2018 talk explores the intricate nature of Zen practice, focusing on the foundational idea of making a conscious decision to embrace life and how this decision underpins spiritual practice. The discussion emphasizes... *Practice, Buddhism, Stillness*	Richard Baker	Nov 2018 Johanneshof
Awakening Through Attentional Zen Practices Serial: RB-02033 Sesshin The talk explores the significance of attention in Zen practice, contrasting the perception of the world as an "in-here-ness" that emphasizes attention, with its perception as an "out-there-ness" that emphasizes thinking. The... *Practice, Breath, Culture*	Richard Baker	Nov 2018 Johanneshof
Zen in Motion: Bridging Mind and Body Serial: RB-02030 Sesshin The talk centers on the integration and disjunction of Eastern and Western cultural practices within Zen teachings, emphasizing the interplay between body and mind as well as sensation and awareness. It critiques the assumption... *Practice, Culture, Posture*	Richard Baker	Nov 2018 Johanneshof
Zen in a Connected World Serial: RB-02031 Sesshin The talk explores the practice of Zen, emphasizing the adaptation of East Asian Buddhist teachings to Western contexts. It highlights the challenge of translating these teachings due to cultural and linguistic differences,... *Practice, Breath, Zazen*	Richard Baker	Nov 2018 Johanneshof
Zen Aliveness Beyond Being Serial: RB-02029 Sesshin The talk explores the intricate relationship between Zen practice and Western worldviews, emphasizing the experiential and transformative nature of Zen. It contrasts the conception of "being" against "aliveness," suggesting that... *Practice, Buddhism, Mindfulness*	Richard Baker	Nov 2018 Johanneshof
Finding Here-ness in Zen Practice Serial: RB-02028 Sesshin The talk explores the significance of language in Zen practice, emphasizing the role of words as not just elements of communication, but as pointers to lived experience and spiritual immediacy. The discussion focuses on the... *Time, Practice, Monastic Practice*	Richard Baker	Nov 2018 Johanneshof
Calling Out Hungry Ghosts Serial: BZ-02642 - *Six Realms, Demons, Culture, Peace, Liberation, Mahayana*	Hozan Alan Senauke	Oct 27 2018
I See You Serial: BZ-02641 Women's Sesshin - *Conversation, War, Gratitude, Interview, Discrimination, Building, Priest*	Meghan Collins	Oct 21 2018
Silent Sitting and Social Action All compounded phenomena are unworthy of confidence. Compassion to these unstable phenomena is our practice. Zen stories are about enacting awakening within social interactions. Attend to your body, posture, breath first, and... - Compassion, Four Foundations, Practice Period, Practice Period, Mindfulness, Observe, Four...	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Oct 20 2018 PM No Abode Hermitage
Silent Sitting and Social Action Sitting in the world, we can't perceive the whole world; we sit in our dharma position, which changes all the time. Impermanence is Buddhism - this place is no abode.. - Dharma Position, Impermanence, Compassion, Impermanence, Original Nature, Hate...	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Oct 20 2018 AM No Abode Hermitage
Resilience through Shared Grief Serial: BZ-02640 - *Vow, Separation, Passions*	Judy Fleischman	Oct 13 2018 Berkeley Zen Center
Tea Ladies and Their Mind-Refreshing Teaching Serial: BZ-02639 Sesshin Open Aspects of Practice - *Sixth Patriarch, Heart Sutra, Soto Zen, Priest, Aspects of Practice, Practice Period, Duality...*	Gerri Oliva	Oct 06 2018
Creating Time Through Presence Serial: RB-03449 Seminar The talk explores the concept of time from a Zen and yogic perspective, challenging the traditional Newtonian view of time as a universal constant. It emphasizes that time is not a pre-existing entity but is created through... *Time, Practice, Dogen*	Richard Baker	Oct 2018 Hannover
Transcending Time in Zen Meditation Serial: RB-03451 Seminar The talk explores concepts of time and perception in Zen meditation, particularly the limitations of sequential and cumulative time and the introduction of paratactic time. This form of time perception allows for the acceptance... *Time, Practice, Buddhism*	Richard Baker	Oct 2018 Hannover
Reimagining Time Beyond Clocks Serial: RB-03450 Seminar The seminar titled "Beyond the Tick Tock: Living Time" explores the conceptual understanding of time both in everyday life and within the context of contemporary physics and yogic practices. The discussion focuses on the... *Time, Practice*	Richard Baker	Oct 2018 Hannover
The Timeless Dance of Zen Serial: RB-03452 Seminar The talk delves into the perception and experience of time in Zen practice, contrasting concepts of cumulative, sequential, paratactic, and immediacy time. It highlights how experiential time, where the self and world emerge, can... *Time, Practice, Buddha*	Richard Baker	Oct 2018 Hannover
Zen Now: Embrace the Buzz Serial: RB-03453 Seminar The talk delves into the exploration of Zen philosophy through the lens of experiential practice. It emphasizes the theme of 'here and now,' using the metaphor of a buzzing fly to illustrate mindfulness and immediate awareness.... *Time, Consciousness, Practice*	Richard Baker	Oct 2018 Hannover
Embracing Zen's Foundational Impermanence Serial: RB-03916 Seminar The seminar delves into Zen practices, focusing on the first three dharmas and their foundational nature to the human condition, touching on their interplay with wisdom practices. It explores the concept of discrimination in... *Name, Time, Practice*	Richard Baker	Oct 01 2018 Johanneshof
Relational Time: Zen and Consciousness Serial: RB-03455 Seminar The talk focuses on the intricate relationship between time, consciousness, and realization within Zen philosophy, with particular focus on Koan 55 from "The Blue Cliff Records". By examining the concept of "secure and intimate... *Time, japanese, Work*	Richard Baker	Oct 2018 Hannover
Timelessness Through Meditative Immediacy Serial: RB-03454 Seminar The seminar explores the concept of immediacy in the experience of time, highlighting four dimensions: sequential, cumulative, paratactic, and durative immediacy. An anecdote about a meditative experience in the Himalayas... *Time, Practice, Stillness*	Richard Baker	Oct 2018 Hannover
Circummediacy: Embracing Time's Texture Serial: RB-03456 Seminar The talk addresses the concept of "immediacy" and its experiential dimensions, presenting "traction" in the context of spatiality, patiality, and indeterminacy. The discussion explores immediacy as a textural experience,... *Time, Practice, Consciousness*	Richard Baker	Oct 2018 Hannover
Navigating Zen: Breath and Awareness Serial: RB-03457 Seminar The talk delves into various metaphors and images related to Zen practice, discussing the exploration of "Dharma land" and the importance of personal inquiry and awareness in navigating one's spiritual journey. Emphasis is placed... *Time, Work, Sixth Patriarch*	Richard Baker	Oct 2018 Hannover
Gates to Zen Consciousness Serial: RB-03459 Seminar The talk delves into the exploration of Zen Buddhist concepts, emphasizing the importance of understanding and practicing the "four marks" and the "five dharmas" to cultivate a finer attention to appearances and consciousness.... *Time, Consciousness, Practice*	Richard Baker	Oct 2018 Hannover
Zen Transformation Through Mindful Awareness Serial: RB-03458 Seminar This talk explores the integration of Zen practice and its transformative potential through examining one's experience, emphasizing the mental posture integral to Zazen practice. The discussion introduces the "four pillars of... *Time, Consciousness, Practice*	Richard Baker	Oct 2018 Hannover
Kyogen's Man Up in a Tree Serial: BZ-02638 - Ego, Duality, Peace, Bodhidharma, War, Priest, Oneness, Conversation, Instruction...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 29 2018

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