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Beginners Talks

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Title	Speaker	Date
Zazen Instruction Serial: BZ-02031 Bansan Blue Cliff Record, Zazen, Beginners, Emotions, Posture, Religion	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 15 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Beginners and Beginning: Self sufficiency: Serial No. 01084 Beginners, Buddha Ancestors, Composure, Heart Sutra, Light-and-Darkness, New Year,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jan 03 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Zazen Instruction for Zazen Teachers: How to Give Saturday Morning Zazen Instruction Serial: BZ-01088 Lecture Posture, Beginners, Hindrances, Concentration, Samsara, Bowing	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 09 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record Case #87, Right Medicine, Right Teacher: Unmon’s “Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other” Serial: BZ-01135 Saturday lecture Practice Period, Manjushri, Attachment, Blue Cliff Record, Separation, Precepts,...	Gerry Oliva	May 24 2008 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,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 12 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Commentary on "Find Out For Yourself" Serial: BZ-01406 Suzuki-rôshi's lecture in "Not Always So", Rohatsu Day 6 Suzuki Roshi, Intuition, Daily Life, Don't Know Mind, Precepts, Enthusiasm,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 02 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Shining Practice: Growing up in a Zendo (Kid Zendo) Serial: BZ-01386 Saturday Lecture Family Practice, Transmission, Buddha Ancestors, Dharma Transmission, Tassajara,...	Shosan Victoria Austin	Sep 16 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Effort Serial: BZ-01177 Saturday Lecture Buddha Nature, Beginners, Chanting, Concentration, Ego, Lay Practice, Right Effort...	Ron Nestor	Aug 05 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
The Paramitas Serial: BZ-01166 Patience and Enthusiastic Effort, Sesshin Day 1 Effort, Patience, Virya, Enthusiasm, Practice Position, Composure, Thoroughness,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 14 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
“Poems are not Poems”: The Poetry of Ryokan Serial: BZ-01213 Teaching Retreat, part 1 of 2 Beginners, Discrimination, Nirvana, Practice Period, Priest, Rinzai, Silence, Soto...	Shohaku Okumura	Feb 04 2006 1 Berkeley Zen Center
From "Not Always So" Serial: BZ-01198 "Find Out For Yourself", Saturday Lecture Beginners, Big Mind, Buddha Nature, Ego, Intuition, Monastic Practice, Practice...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 12 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
“Not Always So” from Not Always So Serial: BZ-01037A Class 2 of 4 Conversation, Vow, Precepts, Zoom, Beginners, Composure, Tassajara, Hate	Richard Haefele	Nov 03 2005 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Intuition Serial: BZ-01185 Sesshin Day 1 Intuition, Body-and-Mind, Intuition, Posture, Beginners, Commitment, Samadhi,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 03 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Find Out for Yourself Serial: BZ-00576 Lecture Precepts, Duality, Subject-and-Object, Discrimination, Oneness, Beginners, Hate,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 17 2005 Tassajara
Zen Of Business Administration Serial: SF-00036 Sunday Talk. Life at Green Gulch in the 1970s; giving, fearlessness; improv; no mistakes; parenting. Realization, Suzuki Roshi, Koan, Interview, Daily Life, Beginners, Mill Valley,...	Marc Lesser	Mar 20 2005 Green Gulch Farm
Hokyo Zammai: Precious Mirror Samadhi Serial: BZ-00768 Class 10 of 12 Subject-and-Object, Five Ranks, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana Sutra, Nirvana, Daily Life,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 10 2005 10 Tassajara
Diamond Sutra: Chapters 16-24, Streams of Thought Serial: BZ-00564 Class 3 of 4 Platform Sutra, Right Speech, Attachment, War, Liberation, Heart Sutra, Passions,...	Peter Overton	Oct 07 2004 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Hsin Hsin Ming Serial: SF-01901 Zendo Lecture Faith, Don't Know Mind, Equanimity, Emptiness, Perfect Wisdom, Beginners,...	Darlene Cohen	Jun 18 2004 Tassajara
Zen in Every Kitchen Task Beginners, Practice Period, Realization, Tenzo	Edward Espe Brown	May 01 2004
Zen in Everyday Cooking Life Beginners, Practice Period, Realization, Tenzo	Edward Espe Brown	May 01 2004
Blue Cliff Record: Case #5 Serial: BZ-01382 Saturday Lecture BCR-5, Beginners, Buddha Nature, Duality, First Principle, Mahayana, Manjushri, Non-...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 31 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Beginner's Mind, Infinite Enlightenment Serial: SF-00079 Zendo Lecture Birth-and-Death, Separation, Letting Go, Intimacy, Liberation, Tassajara, Beginners,...	Ryushin Paul Haller	Aug 10 2003
Unveiling Emptiness Through Heart Sutras Beginners, Heart Sutra, Hindrances, Skandhas	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jul 28 2003
Embracing Emptiness in Heart Sutra Beginners, Heart Sutra, Hindrances	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jul 28 2003
Meaning of Words We Chant: Bodhisattva Vows/ Dharma Gates are Boundless Serial: BZ-00132B Lecture Beginners, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Practice Period, Priest, Rinzai, Vow	Peter Overton	Mar 13 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Suzuki Roshi New Book Serial: BZ-00155B Lecture Anger, Attachment, Beginners, Concentration, Conversation, Posture	Hozan Alan Senauke	Aug 03 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Zen's Silent Path to Compassion Beginners, Four Noble Truths, Samadhi, Two Truths	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Apr 03 2002
The Mysticism of Meister Eckhart Serial: NC-01070 Community Retreat Spring 2002 OSB Cam, Meister Eckhart, Mysticism, Apophatic, Intuition, Oneness, Beginners...	Sr. Donald Corcoran, OSB	Apr 2002 1 of 5 (#4 not recorded) New Camaldoli Hermitage
Journey to Enlightened Wisdom Serial: RA-00438 One-day sitting Beginners, Nirvana, Suzuki Roshi	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Mar 16 2002
January 16th, 2002, Serial No. 00078 Beginners, Joshu, Transmission		Jan 16 2002
Untitled Talk Anger, Beginners, Conversation, Daily Life, Karma, Posture	Peter Overton	Aug 04 2001 Berkeley Zen Center
Non-Thinking: Embrace Zen's Essence Beginners, Bowing	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jul 21 2001
Sunday Lecture Buddha Nature, Suzuki Roshi, Discrimination, Nirvana, Freedom, Beginners	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Mar 04 2001 Green Gulch Farm
Sunday Lecture Study Period, Birth-and-Death, Practice Period, Liberation, Renunciation, Sanctuary,...	Fu Schroeder	Jan 28 2001 Green Gulch Farm
Tenzo Kyokun Class Realization, Practice Period, Buddha Ancestors, Ceremony, New Year, Three Treasures,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Oct 31 2000 Green Gulch Farm
Blue Cliff Record: Case #2 Serial: BZ-00083A Nondiscriminating Mind within Discrimination, Sesshin Day 3 Discrimination, BCR-2, Discrimination, Dragons, Non-discrimination, Attachment, Hsin...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 04 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
From the Beginning, No Surprises, No Lack Beginners, Commitment, War, Rinzai, Heart Sutra, Posture, Bodhidharma, Soto Zen...	Richard Haefele	Aug 12 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Women Ancestors Class Serial: BZ-00851 Class 4 of 4 Transmission, Dragons, Passions, Heart Sutra, Buddha Nature, Beginners, Conversation...	Mary Mocine, Myoan Grace Schireson	Jul 27 2000 4 Berkeley Zen Center
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness Serial: BZ-00056B Sunshine and Shadow, Sesshin Day 4 Sandokai, Branching Streams, Light-and-Darkness, Beginners, Branching Streams,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 17 2000 Berkeley Zen Center
Embracing Openness Through Partnership Beginners, Emptiness, Blue Cliff Record, Practice Period, Priest	Edward Espe Brown	Mar 28 2000
How/Why to Sustain a Vital Sitting Practice Beginners, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Concentration, Lay Practice, Religion	Ron Nestor	Aug 14 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Authenticity Through Mindful Existence Posture, Way-Seeking Mind, Delusion, Don't Know Mind, Beginners	Edward Espe Brown	Jun 07 1999
Beginners’ Sesshin Attachment, Beginners, Chanting, Diversity, Sangha, Silence, Soto Zen	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jan 24 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen's Guidelines For Studying The Way (Pt.2) Serial: BZ-00188A Saturday Lecture Dogen, Beginners, Buddha Nature, Continuous Practice, Hindrances, Lineage, Lotus...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 12 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
Labyrinths of Zen and Self-Expression Serial: RA-00780 Jan 98 PP Sesshin Dharma talk #2 Suzuki Roshi, Interdependence, Beginners, Bodhisattva Precepts, Priest	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jan 27 1998 Green Gulch Farm
Blue Cliff Record: Case #41 Serial: BZ-00317A Joshu & The Great Death, Saturday Lecture Joshu, Death, BCR-41, Birth-and-Death, Peace, Big Mind, Zoom, Beginners, Ego...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 12 1997 Berkeley Zen Center
Zadankai Serial: BZ-00779 Discussion Ordinary Mind, Silent Illumination, Conversation, Soto Zen, Buddha Nature, Religion,...	Robert Aitken Roshi, Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 16 1997 City Center
No Species Is Only Itself Serial: SF-03103 Sunday Lecture: Tigers are awesome, unchained wildness; species are disappearing; every species exists as an important factor in the world of many other species; for humans,... Forgiveness, Ego, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Commitment, Beginners, Letting Go...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Mar 02 1997 Green Gulch Farm
Shikantaza Serial: BZ-00357B One-Day Sitting Shikantaza, Beginners, Bowing, Concentration, Continuous Practice, Ego, Passions,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 16 1997 Berkeley Zen Center
Discussing Suzuki-rôshi Lecture #12 Serial: BZ-00117 Lecture Beginners, Birth-and-Death, Family Practice, Lay Practice, Lotus Sutra, Monastic...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 22 1997 Unknown

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