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Buddha's Enlightment

Serial: BZ-02654 Rohatsu Day 7   -
Duality, Attachment, Non-discrimination, Soto Zen, Composure, Discrimination, Intimacy,...
Dec 08 2018

This Sesshin was Wonderfully Done

Serial: BZ-02653 Rohatsu Day 6   -
Silence, Big Mind, Priest, Vow, Offering, Doubt, Culture, Lay, Ego
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...
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,...
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,...
Dec 04 2018

Birth, Death and Breath

Serial: BZ-02649 Rohatsu Day 2   -
Birth-and-Death, Concentration, Duality, Passions, Peace, Ego, Impermanence, Bell, Doubt...
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...
Dec 02 2018

Precepts

Serial: BZ-02647 -
Precepts, Karma, Anger, Monastic Practice, Samadhi, Birth-and-Death, Sangha, Intuition,...
Dec 01 2018

Introduction to Joshu

Serial: BZ-02646 -
Ordinary Mind, Passions, Hindrances, Patience, confusion, Culture, Karma, Gratitude, Bell,...
Nov 24 2018

Compassion Flexibility the Victims of Paradise

Serial: BZ-02645 -
Building, Global Warming, Right Speech, Offering, American, Happiness, Religion, Ego,...
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...
Nov 10 2018
AM
No Abode Hermitage

Introduction To The Four Afflictions Of Self

Discussing afflictions of the mind where the self appears, as an opportunity to explore consciousness. The ignorance of the view that the self is operating the situation. -
Consciousness,
Nov 10 2018
PM
No Abode Hermitage

Being Time

Serial: BZ-02644 -
Buddha Nature, Sixth Patriarch, Doubt, Equanimity, Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Non-...
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...
Nov 03 2018

Calling Out Hungry Ghosts

Serial: BZ-02642 -
Six Realms, Demons, Culture, Peace, Liberation, Mahayana
Oct 27 2018

I See You

Serial: BZ-02641 Women's Sesshin   -
Conversation, War, Gratitude, Interview, Discrimination, Building, Priest
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...
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,
Oct 20 2018
AM
No Abode Hermitage

Resilience through Shared Grief

Serial: BZ-02640 -
Vow, Separation, Passions
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...
Oct 06 2018

Kyogen's Man Up in a Tree

Serial: BZ-02638 -
Ego, Duality, Peace, Bodhidharma, War, Priest, Oneness, Conversation, Instruction...
Sep 29 2018

Ryaku Fusatsu

Serial: BZ-02637 -
Karma, Precepts, Four Noble Truths, Vow, Repentance, Duality, Addiction, Renewal, Hindrances,...
Sep 22 2018

Contemplating Torei Zenji's Vow

Everything is manifesting the path of the ancient buddhas, abiding together in their respective dharma positions. Abiding in this moment and being free of it, even if we think it is obstruction or that we are stuck. -
Global Warming,
Sep 15 2018
PM
No Abode Hermitage

Compassion is a Conversation

A conversation is what we are doing together. Buddhas are sitting upright and still, in the midst of everything, having a conversation with silence. The story of his Nanchuan and his sickle. Meeting the person and the moment in... -
Compassion, Global Warming, Koan,
Sep 15 2018
AM
No Abode Hermitage

Magnanimous View

Serial: BZ-02636 -
Gaining Mind, Big Mind, Right Effort, Mindfulness, Instruction, Impermanence, uchiyama, War,...
Sep 15 2018

Zazen Posture and the Problem of Touch

Serial: BZ-02635 -
Posture, Big Mind, Conversation, Instruction, Silence, Manjushri, Passions, Culture...
Sep 08 2018

Adjusting Posture

Serial: BZ-02634 -
Posture, Instruction
Sep 07 2018

Eight Awarenesses of Great Beings (Study Sesshin Part 1)

Serial: BZ-02632 Study Sesshin Part 1   -
Mindfulness, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Concentration, Precepts, true dharma, Bodhisattva...
Sep 01 2018

Eight Awarenesses of Great Beings (Study Sesshin Part 2)

Serial: BZ-02633 Study Sesshin Part 2   -
true dharma, Concentration, Mindfulness, Equanimity, Light-and-Darkness, Dependent Origination...
Sep 01 2018

Ending Racism

Serial: BZ-02631 -
Mindfulness, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Current Events, American, Happiness, Precepts, Renewal,...
Aug 25 2018

Questions of Old Age

Serial: BZ-02630 -
Practice Position, Emotions, Equanimity, Impermanence, Mindfulness, American, Building, War,...
Aug 18 2018

The Womb of the Tathagata #5

Torei's vow; bowing in humility in the face of cruelty; meeting monsters with lovingkindness. -
Confession-and-Repentance, Lovingkindness,
Aug 11 2018
PM
No Abode Hermitage

The Womb of the Tathagata #5

Meeting a teacher, asking about the teaching and listening to the teaching. Bodies and minds sitting silently and conversing. -
Aug 11 2018
AM
No Abode Hermitage

Beating the Drum

Serial: BZ-02629 -
Buddha Ancestors, Practice Period, Confession-and-Repentance, Vow, true dharma, Tassajara Zen...
Aug 11 2018

Universal Cosmic Stillness

Serial: BZ-02628  SESSHIN   -
Ordinary Mind, Samsara, Discrimination, Religion, Peace, Emotions
Aug 04 2018

Just Me

Serial: BZ-02627 -
Concentration, Instruction, Ordinary Mind, Gratitude, Rinzai, Aspects of Practice, Big Mind,...
Jul 28 2018

No Recipe

Serial: BZ-02626 -
Passions, Mindfulness, Dharma Transmission, Anger, Happiness, Transmission, Discrimination,...
Jul 21 2018

The Womb of the Tathagata #4

Opportunities for compassion - with friends and enemies; the story of the destitute son from the Lotus Sutra -
Compassion,
Jul 14 2018
PM
No Abode Hermitage

The Womb of the Tathagata #4

Being supported in compassion; Uncle Mi and the rabbit; -
Compassion,
Jul 14 2018
AM
No Abode Hermitage

Habit Energy

Serial: BZ-02625 -
Buddha Nature, Practice Period, Gratitude, Buddha Mind, Instruction, Doubt, training, Emotions...
Jul 14 2018

Prodigal Daughter

Serial: BZ-02624 -
Gaining Mind, Repentance, Religion, Ego, Instruction, Gratitude, Silence, Hindrances,...
Jul 07 2018

State of the Union

Serial: BZ-02623 -
Composure, Politics, American, Demons, Silence, Greed, Passions, Evil, Conversation, Hate...
Jun 30 2018

Everything is Broken

Serial: BZ-02622 -
Bodhisattva Vow, War, Happiness, Vow, Buddha Nature, Renunciation, Rinzai, Commitment,...
Jun 23 2018

Suzuki Roshi Sun-Faced Buddha, Moon-Faced Buddha

Serial: BZ-02621 Sesshin Day 5   -
Birth-and-Death, Practice Period, Emotions, Intimacy, Attachment, Dogen, Bell, Sanctuary,...
Jun 17 2018

Intimacy and Attention

Serial: BZ-02620 Sesshin Day 4 -
Big Mind, Composure, Intimacy, Zazen Mind, Lineage, Conversation, Vow, Precepts, Doubt...
Jun 16 2018

Preferences, Expectations, Letting Go

Serial: BZ-02619 Sesshin Day 3   -
Book of Serenity, Blue Cliff Record, Oneness, Ego, Daily Life, Hindrances, Tassajara Zen...
Jun 15 2018

Daikan Eno and The Hundred Dharmas

Serial: BZ-02618 Sesshin Day 2   -
Repentance, Doubt, Big Mind, Anger, Karma, Greed, Ego, Heart Sutra, Sixth Patriarch, Platform...
Jun 14 2018

The Six Qualitative Factors That Keep Us Balanced and Centered

Serial: BZ-02617 Sesshin Day 1   -
Daily Life, Posture, Composure, Building, Heart Sutra, Hindrances, Mahayana, Karma, Intimacy,...
Jun 13 2018

The Womb of the Tathagata #3: Our Buddha Nature Precepts

Origins of the Bodhisattva precepts; development and commentaries; the reasons for Buddhas appearing in this world. -
Precepts, Buddha Nature, Transmission, Heart Sutra,
Jun 09 2018
AM
No Abode Hermitage

The Womb of the Tathagata #3: Our Buddha Nature Precepts

Verifying the truth of the teachings through words and phrases -
Precepts,
Jun 09 2018
PM
No Abode Hermitage

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