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Unknown Date, Serial 00368

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Building, confusion, Monastic Practice, Politics, Intuition, Community, Culture, Don't...

Unknown Date, Serial 00369

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Transmission, Meditation, Happiness, Culture, Lineage, Monastic Practice, Liberation,...

Unknown Date, Serial 00370

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Buddha Nature, Transmission, Consciousness, Emotions, Attachment, Constancy, Demons, Zendo,...

Unknown Date, Serial 00376

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Consciousness, Suffering, Impermanence, Ego, Letting Go, confusion, Right Speech, Compassion,...

Unknown Date, Serial 00379

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Enemies, Monastic Practice, training, Culture, Dragons, Sangha, Meditation, Community,...

Unknown Date, Serial 00380

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Balance, Vow, Building, American, Patience, Instruction, Culture, Emotions, Attachment,...

Unknown Date, Serial 00381

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Lay, Heart Sutra, Commitment, Religion, Culture, Community, Happiness, Sangha, American,...

Unknown Date, Serial 00382

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Attachment, Subject-and-Object, Culture, Meditation, Addiction, Heart Sutra, realization,...

Unknown Date, Serial 00387

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Lineage, Culture, Vow, Ordination, Conversation, Liberation, Intention, Ego, Precepts, Nirvana...

Unknown Date, Serial 00388

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Buddha Nature, Transmission, Consciousness, Letting Go, Attachment, Emotions, American, Demons...

Unknown Date, Serial 00389

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Suffering, Anger, Attachment, Consciousness, Balance, Liberation, Building, Meditation,...

Unknown Date, Serial 00390

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Meditation, Heart Sutra, Mindfulness, Precepts, Non-duality, Culture, Lay, Instruction,...

Unknown Date, Serial 00391

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Precepts, American, Ordination, Lineage, Culture, Liberation, Vow, Community, Lay, Commitment...

Unknown Date, Serial 00392

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Lineage, New Year, Liberation, Intention, Vow, Conversation, Ego, Precepts, Discrimination...

Unknown Date, Serial 00393

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Subject-and-Object, Culture, Mindfulness, realization, Compassion, Heart Sutra, Meditation,...

Unknown Date, Serial 00394

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Attachment, Religion, Community, Meditation, Addiction, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths,...

Unknown Date, Serial 00395

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Lay, Commitment, Heart Sutra, Happiness, Monastic Practice, Culture, Community, Vow, Sangha,...

Unknown Date, Serial 00396

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Precepts, Heart Sutra, Community, Meditation, Instruction, Non-duality, Pain, Teacher-and-...

The Heart Sutra

Serial: BZ-01537A First part of class 1 of 4 -
Emptiness, Heart Sutra, Time
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Eight Awakenings of Great Beings

Serial: BZ-02101 -
Desire, Mindfulness, Wisdom

BZCPhone

Serial: BZ-02866 Telephone answer machine message -
Zazen, Instruction
Berkeley Zen Center

Hsin Hsin Ming Revealed

Serial: BZ-02872 Lecture, sesshin Day 4 -
Gaining Mind, Zazen, Buddha Nature

Dai Hi Shin Dharani; Ancestral Line

Serial: BZ-00534 Chants -
Vasubandhu, Passions, Avalokiteshvara

Unknown Date, Serial 01476, Side B

Serial: BZ-01476B -
Community

Heart Sutra

Serial: BZ-01540 Class 4 of 4 -
Emptiness, Ego, Chanting
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Unknown Date, Serial 01503, Side B

Serial: BZ-01503B Speaker most likely the same as Serial No. 00306B - identified with the assistance of Shosan Victoria Austin.  -
Emptiness, Bodhidharma, Poetry
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

Ekos

Serial: SF-00013A The talk focuses on the recitation and exploration of the Ārya-prajñā-pāramitā-hridaya-sūtra, also known as the Heart Sutra, emphasizing its significance in understanding emptiness and the Bodhisattva path. The recurring...
Sandokai

Heart Sutra

Serial: BZ-01539 Clas 3 of 4 -
Emptiness, Heart Sutra, Desire
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Unknown Date, Serial 01475

Serial: BZ-01475 Interview with KPFA -
Community, Berkeley Zen Center, War
KPFA

Heart Sutra

Serial: BZ-01538 Class 2 of 4 -
Emptiness, Heart Sutra, Abhidharma
2
Berkeley Zen Center

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Posture, resistance, Dogen

Morning Service

Serial: SF-00016 Mid-Seventies The talk centers on the Heart Sutra, emphasizing the concept of emptiness shared in Mahayana Buddhism. The text delves into the idea that form and emptiness are inseparable and expounds that in emptiness, conventional...
Emptiness, Suffering, Consciousness
City Center

The Heart Sutra

Serial: BZ-01537B Class second part of class 1 of 4 -
Heart Sutra, Chanting, Buddha
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Zen Reflections: Beginner's Insights

Serial: EB-00218B The talk delves into the concept of self-reflection within Zen practice. "Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki: Highlights the importance of maintaining a beginner's attitude in self-discovery. "...

Manjushri, Serial 00085

Serial: SP-00085 The talk focuses on the initiation rituals associated with the Bodhisattva Manjushri, emphasizing the importance of purifying obscurations and accumulating merit as prerequisites to receiving blessings. The process involves the...
Bodhisattva, Wisdom, Manjushri
DR 68

YYYY.MM.DD-serial.00098A

Serial: SO-00098A The talk explores the concept of Buddha nature, emphasizing its inherent presence in all forms and actions. The discussion focuses on the dichotomy of conditioned and unconditional aspects of Buddha nature, drawing from Zen...
Practice, Buddha Nature, Buddha

Manjushri Sapan, Serial 00062

Serial: SP-00062 The talk focuses on the detailed visualization and meditation practices centered on Manjushri Sapan, emphasizing the creation and dissolution processes in meditative visualization. It delves into the use of specific mudras and...
Wisdom, Offering, Manjushri
III

Manjushri Sapan, Serial 00063

Serial: SP-00063 The talk explores the concept of interconnectedness through karmic affinity, emphasizing the kindness received from all beings across countless lifetimes. It stresses the importance of aspiring for Buddhahood to repay this...
Practice, Time, Meditation
II

YYYY.01.31-serial.00005

Serial: SO-00005 The talk discusses the historical and doctrinal aspects of the Buddhist robes (kashaya) and the Vinaya in the context of Mahayana Buddhism's developments in India, China, and Japan. It differentiates between the three main types...
Vinaya, Buddha, Precepts

Ngon Dro, and sleep yoga of Amitabha, Serial 00011

Serial: SP-00011 The talk explores the significance of Guru Yoga in Tantric Buddhism, emphasizing the meditative practice of seeing one's guru as the Buddha and ultimately realizing one's own mind as the Buddha. It delves into visualization and...
Buddha, Practice, Meditation

YYYY.MM.DD-serial.00098B

Serial: SO-00098B The talk delves into the exploration of Zen teachings, focusing on a dialogue from a Zen text involving figures like Nansen and Obaku, with references to the importance of balancing dhyana (meditation) and prajna (wisdom). It...
Buddha Nature, Buddha, Wisdom

Manjushri Sapan Serial 00064

Serial: SP-00064 The talk focuses on the practice of the Manjushri Sapan meditation, including guidance for reflecting on the mind's orientation toward Dharma and the alleviation of suffering for all beings. Emphasis is placed on visualizing the...
Pain, Suffering, Time
I

Dedication of Jetsun Sakya shrine room, Serial 00060

Serial: SP-00060 The talk centers on the dedication of a new Jetsun Sakya shrine room, emphasizing the importance of remembering the kindness and selflessness of past teachers who transmitted the teachings of liberation from the Buddha down to...
Time, Practice, Offering
DR54

YYYY.MM.DD-serial.00097

Serial: SO-00097 The talk explores Dogen's interpretation of "Buddha nature" as described in Zen texts, focusing on the contrasting views between Dogen and other Zen masters regarding the presence or absence of Buddha nature in sentient beings....
Buddha Nature, Buddha, Dogen

YYYY.01.19-serial.00033

Serial: SO-00033 The talk explores Dogen's interpretation of time and reality, particularly through the lens of the "Shobogenzo Uji" and various poems about Mount Roo by Su Shi, Wanshi, and Katagiri Roshi. It contrasts Western philosophical...
Dogen, Buddha, Time

YYYY.01.15-serial.00040

Serial: SO-00040 The talk expounds on the complexities of Dogen's interpretation of the "ten suchness" from the Lotus Sutra, emphasizing the concept of ultimate identity and the nature of reality. The discussion asserts that true reality is...
Buddha, Practice, Dogen

YYYY.MM.DD-serial.00096

Serial: SO-00096 The talk examines the concept of Buddha nature, drawing on the teachings of Dogen Zenji and the symbolism of figures like Rokya Ujjara and Daijizaiten. The presentation emphasizes the roles of Buddha and bodhisattva forms in...
Buddha, Buddha Nature, Desire

YYYY.01.19-serial.00034

Serial: SO-00034 The talk centers on a critique and comparison of past and contemporary Zen masters through the lens of Dogen's experience in China. Key points include Dogen's critical evaluation of historical figures like Yin-Yang and Ng-an, and...
Time, Buddha, Practice

YYYY.MM.DD-serial.00095

Serial: SO-00095 The talk extensively explores the concepts within Zen Buddhism, focusing on the application of Buddha nature across the themes of form and formlessness, individual existence, and the interconnectedness of beings as explained...
Buddha Nature, Buddha, Practice

YYYY.01.18-serial.00035

Serial: SO-00035 The talk examines the Zen Master's critique of another practitioner's understanding of enlightenment, focusing on the concept of "arising mind" and "moving thought." Key elements include the debate over the nature of emptiness...
Dogen, Buddha, Practice

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