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Zazen Instruction

Serial: BZ-02031

Bansan

Blue Cliff Record, Zazen, Posture, Building, Emotions, Beginners, Religion
May 15 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Case #7 - Wash Your Bowl

Serial: BZ-02027

Saturday Lecture

BCR-7, Family Practice, Transmission, Bell, Daily Life, Building, Emotions,...
May 02 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Beginners and Beginning: Self sufficiency: Serial No. 01084

Beginners, Composure, Light-and-Darkness, New Year, Buddha Ancestors, Instruction,...
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, Observe, Concentration, Instruction, Samsara, Bowing...
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, Instruction,...
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,...
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

Buddha, Suzuki Roshi, Intuition, Daily Life, Instruction, Bell, Don't Know Mind...
Dec 02 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Shining Practice: Growing up in a Zendo (Kid Zendo)

Serial: BZ-01386

Saturday Lecture

Bell, Family Practice, Transmission, Offering, Buddha Ancestors, Dharma Transmission...
Sep 16 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Effort

Serial: BZ-01177

Saturday Lecture

Buddha Nature, Right Effort, Ego, Mindfulness, Beginners, Instruction, Chanting,...
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,...
Jun 14 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

“Poems are not Poems”: The Poetry of Ryokan

Serial: BZ-01213

Teaching Retreat, part 1 of 2

Priest, Silence, Discrimination, Practice Period, Beginners, Rinzai, Soto Zen,...
Feb 04 2006
1
Berkeley Zen Center

2006.02.01-serial.00003

Offering, Patience, confusion, Sangha, Precepts, Mindfulness, Beginners, Gratitude,...
Feb 01 2006

From "Not Always So"

Serial: BZ-01198

"Find Out For Yourself", Saturday Lecture

Instruction, Monastic Practice, Ego, Intuition, Big Mind, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
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, Enemies, Evil, Tassajara Zen...
Nov 03 2005
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Intuition

Serial: BZ-01185

Sesshin Day 1

Intuition, Body-and-Mind, Intuition, Posture, Instruction, Beginners, Commitment,...
Sep 03 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

Find Out for Yourself

Serial: BZ-00576

Lecture

Precepts, Duality, Instruction, Subject-and-Object, Discrimination, Oneness,...
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.

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Interview, Suzuki Roshi, Mill Valley, Daily Life, Koan...
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, Evil, Nirvana, Daily...
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,...
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,...
Jun 18 2004
Tassajara

Zen in Every Kitchen Task

Tenzo, Realization, Practice Period, Beginners
May 01 2004

Zen in Everyday Cooking Life

Tenzo, Realization, Practice Period, Beginners
May 01 2004

Blue Cliff Record: Case #5

Serial: BZ-01382

Saturday Lecture

BCR-5, First Principle, Beginners, Non-duality, Buddha Nature, Manjushri, Duality,...
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 Zen Mountain...
Aug 10 2003

Meaning of Words We Chant: Bodhisattva Vows/ Dharma Gates are Boundless

Serial: BZ-00132B

Lecture

Vow, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Priest, Practice Period, Beginners, Rinzai, Observe, Bell...
Mar 13 2003
Berkeley Zen Center

Suzuki Roshi New Book

Serial: BZ-00155B

Lecture

Concentration, Posture, Anger, Beginners, Conversation, Instruction, Attachment...
Aug 03 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

The Mysticism of Meister Eckhart

Serial: NC-01070

Community Retreat Spring 2002

OSB Cam, Meister Eckhart, Mysticism, Apophatic, Intuition, Fox, Oneness, Beginners...
Apr 2002
1 of 5 (#4 not recorded)
New Camaldoli Hermitage

January 16th, 2002, Serial No. 00078

Joshu, Beginners, Transmission
Jan 16 2002

Untitled Talk

Beginners, Culture, Bell, Daily Life, Posture, Anger, Karma, Conversation
Aug 04 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Sunday Lecture

Freedom, Bell, Beginners, Discrimination, Nirvana, Buddha Nature, confusion, Suzuki...
Mar 04 2001
Green Gulch Farm

Sunday Lecture

Study Period, Birth-and-Death, Practice Period, Liberation, Instruction, Renunciation...
Jan 28 2001
Green Gulch Farm

Tenzo Kyokun Class

Realization, Practice Period, Skandas, Buddha Ancestors, Beginners, Ceremony, Three...
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...
Sep 04 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

From the Beginning, No Surprises, No Lack

Instruction, Beginners, Commitment, War, Rinzai, Heart Sutra, Posture, Bodhidharma,...
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...
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,...
Jun 17 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Embracing Openness Through Partnership

Beginners, Emptiness, Blue Cliff Record, Practice Period, Priest
Mar 28 2000

How/Why to Sustain a Vital Sitting Practice

Lay, Lay Practice, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Beginners, confusion, Concentration, Culture...
Aug 14 1999
Berkeley Zen Center

Authenticity Through Mindful Existence

Posture, Way-Seeking Mind, Delusion, Don't Know Mind, Beginners
Jun 07 1999

Beginners’ Sesshin

Silence, Offering, Beginners, Instruction, Attachment, Diversity, Sangha, Soto Zen,...
Jan 24 1999
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Guidelines For Studying The Way (Pt.2)

Serial: BZ-00188A

Saturday Lecture

Dogen, Lotus Sutra, Buddha Nature, New Year, Beginners, Lineage, Transmission,...
Dec 12 1998
Berkeley Zen Center

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...
Jul 12 1997
Berkeley Zen Center

Zadankai

Serial: BZ-00779

Discussion

Ordinary Mind, Silent Illumination, Conversation, Soto Zen, Buddha Nature, Religion,...
Jun 16 1997
San Francisco Zen 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, Dream World, Mindfulness, Ego, Four Foundations of Mindfulness,...
Mar 02 1997
Green Gulch Farm

Shikantaza

Serial: BZ-00357B

One-Day Sitting

Shikantaza, Posture, Beginners, Bowing, Concentration, Pure Existence, Ego, Enemies,...
Feb 16 1997
Berkeley Zen Center

Discussing Suzuki-rôshi Lecture #12

Serial: BZ-00117

Lecture

Monastic Practice, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Birth-and-Death, Beginners, Monkey...
Jan 22 1997
Unknown

Bound For Glory: Transfiguration Spirituality

Serial: NC-00074

Part of "Bound For Glory: Transfiguration Spirituality"

Archival Photo

OSB Cam, Letting Go, Beginners
1997
4 of 4
New Camaldoli Hermitage

Mumonkan: Case #46

Serial: BZ-00789A

100 Foot Pole, Barriers in Practice, Saturday Lecture

MM-46, Beginners, Sixth Patriarch, Lotus Sutra, Non-duality, Birth-and-Death, Buddha...
Oct 19 1996
Berkeley Zen Center

Images and the Feminine

Chanting, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Religion, War, Humility, Beginners, Precepts...
Oct 21 1995
Berkeley Zen Center

Effort

Serial: BZ-00909A

Beginners' Sitting Talk

Buddha's Birthday, Right Speech, Beginners, Four Noble Truths, Right Effort,...
Apr 09 1995
Berkeley Zen Center

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