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Teacher and Student Relationship

Serial: BZ-00864A

Saturday Lecture

Teacher-and-Student, Teacher-and-Student, Dharma Transmission, Karma, Transmission,...
Oct 05 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Free Sitting vs. Forty Minute Periods: Dogen's Way

Serial: BZ-00411A

Saturday Lecture

Zazen, Dogen, Daily Life, Lay Practice, Bell, Practice Period, Beginners, Rinzai,...
Sep 01 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

The Four Foundations of Mindfulness

Serial: BZ-01521

Don't Bow When You Leave the Zendo, Saturday Lecture

Mindfulness, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Mindfulness, Daily Life, Attachment,...
Jan 05 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

What Shall We Do in the New Year? (discussion) Psychology/Women's Practice

Serial: BZ-00408B

Saturday Lecture

New Year, Psychology, Women's Practice, Mindfulness, New Year, Beginners,...
Dec 22 1984
Berkeley Zen Center

Introduction to Theology

OSB Cam, Intention, First Principle, Beginners, Separation, Diversity
Feb 1984
6 of 19
New Clairvaux Abbey

Camaldolese History

Serial: NC-00516

Camaldolese History Class. Conference #3 (Dec 21, 1983) & Conference #4 (Jan 4, 1984)

OSB Cam, Fasting, Daily Life, Renewal, Conversation, Beginners
Dec 21 1983
2 of 6
New Camaldoli Hermitage

Zazen is Turning Right to Get Left

Mindfulness, Daily Life, Samadhi, Beginners, Anger, Priest, Commitment, Enemies...
Dec 19 1983
Berkeley Zen Center

Embracing Bodhisattva Challenges with Compassion

Lotus Sutra, Intimacy, Compassion, difficulty, Evil, Discrimination, Offering,...
Apr 23 1982

Four Kinds of Horses

Serial: BZ-00021A

Reading from a Suzuki-rôshi Lecture, Rohatsu Day 7

Agama Sutra, Posture, Continuous Practice, Dharma Transmission, American, Beginners,...
Dec 1981
Part 3 of 3
Berkeley Zen Center

The Human Encounter with Death

Death-and-Dying, Letting Go, Demons, Conversation, Emotions, Faith, Enthusiasm,...
Oct 11 1981
1 and 2 of 3
City Center

The Stages of Practice I

Serial: BZ-00024A

One-Day Sitting

Study Period, Heart Sutra, Obstacles, Chanting, Daily Life, Posture, Beginners, Doubt...
Mar 28 1981
Berkeley Zen Center

March 28th, 1981, Serial No. 01063

Study Period, Heart Sutra, Chanting, Daily Life, Posture, Beginners, Doubt, Bowing,...
Mar 28 1981
Berkeley Zen Center

Way-Seeking Mind in Practice

Compassion, Concentration, Beginners, Delusion, American, Nirvana, Pain
Feb 08 1981

Asceticism

Emptiness, Ego, Buddha, Beginners, Repentance
Feb 1981
12 of 14

Everyday Zazen: Mindful Living Art

Breath, Posture, Compassion, Discrimination, Meditation, causation, American,...
Dec 21 1979

Zen Harmony: Body, Mind, Universe

Breath, confusion, Evil, Precepts, Beginners, Happiness, Emotions, Interview, Observe...
Dec 18 1979

Beyond Thought: Embrace Zen Intuition

Pain, Intuition, Consciousness, Realization, Beginners, Subject-and-Object, Don'...
Dec 17 1979

Beginner's Mind, Boundless Possibility

Buddha Mind, Beginners, Emotions, Instruction, Consciousness, Posture, Ceremony,...
Dec 16 1979

Zazen's Symphony of Pure Practice

Emotions, Subject-and-Object, confusion, Meditation, Oneness, Happiness,...
Dec 14 1979

Selflessness and Rilke: Perceiving Pure Existence

confusion, Hate, Subject-and-Object, Community, Consciousness, Intuition, Beginners,...
Sep 05 1979

Embracing Suchness: Path to Wisdom

Greed, Evil, Pain, Bell, Beginners, Anger, Ceremony, Hate, Building
Mar 09 1979

Cultivating Wisdom Through Zen Practice

Greed, Evil, Realization, Commitment, Beginners, Anger, Community, Discrimination,...
Mar 09 1979

Satori and the Eighth Consciousness

Happiness, Realization, Buddha Nature, Transmission, Consciousness, Beginners,...
Aug 1977

Silence and the Path to Insight

Silence, Buddha Nature, Hate, Beginners, Anger, Fox, Balance, Emotions, Compassion...
Aug 29 1976

Zenki: Living the Eternal Moment

Birth-and-Death, Concentration, Realization, American, Happiness, Separation,...
Sep 01 1975

Monastic Life

Serial: SF-00007A

Early Christian mystics; Benedictine regulations, the rule of obedience; manifestation of God in the world.

Realization, Monastic Practice, Silence, Ego, Separation, Conversation, Beginners,...
Feb 07 1974
Tassajara

Lotus Journey: Transcending Birth and Death

Birth-and-Death, Patience, Obstacles, Conversation, Beginners, Suffering, Breath,...
Dec 06 1972

Zen Koans: Paths to Imperturbability

Ego, Consciousness, Lotus Sutra, confusion, Manjushri, Beginners, difficulty,...
Oct 17 1972

Zen Practice: Embracing the Present Moment

Fox, Realization, Liberation, Beginners, Posture, Silence, Meditation, Hate, American...
Jan 30 1972

Beyond Thoughts: Zen's Path to Liberation

Pain, Beginners, Birth-and-Death, Hate, Commitment, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Dec 06 1971

Peaceful Mind Through Zazen Practice

Posture, Vow, Delusion, Transmission, Evil, Instruction, Beginners, Hate
Dec 05 1971

Wholehearted Presence in Everyday Life

Concentration, Mahayana, Samadhi, Instruction, Beginners, Posture, Attachment...
Oct 26 1971

Breaking the Chains of Illusion

Four Noble Truths, Suffering, Soto Zen, Instruction, Nirvana, difficulty, Tassajara...
Oct 02 1971

Finding Purpose Through Inner Truth

Karma, Enthusiasm, Hate, Bowing, Beginners, Happiness, American
Sep 17 1971

Wherever You Are, We Have Zen Way Of Practice

Dogen, Shobogenzo, Genjokoan, Suffering, Pain, Don't Know Mind, Happiness,...
Aug 21 1971
City Center

Consciousness Unbound: Embracing Neutral Freedom

Consciousness, Attachment, Evil, confusion, American, Passions, Beginners, Ceremony,...
Jul 13 1971

Unified Essence, Diverse Realities

Consciousness, Offering, Intention, Beginners, difficulty
Jul 10 1971

Calmness of your Mind

Serial: SR-00079

Saturday Morning, February 13, 1971
San Francisco

Sesshin, Pain, New Year, Suffering, confusion, Oneness, Beginners, Community,...
Feb 13 1971
City Center

Enlightenment: A Journey Beyond Attainment

Discrimination, Pain, Beginners, Buddha Nature, Religion, Interdependence, Lineage,...
1971

Embodying Enlightenment Through Daily Vows

confusion, Vow, Sanctuary, Consciousness, Mahayana, causation, Beginners, Silence,...
Dec 11 1970

Open Your Intuition

Serial: SF-05587B

Sesshin Meeting
Friday, July 31, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Intuition, Instruction, Beginners
Jul 31 1970
City Center

Mudra Practice and How to Accept Instructions from Various Teachers

Tatsugami, Yoshida, Beginners, Keizan, Dogen, Posture, Instruction, difficulty...
Jul 26 1970
City Center

Crafting Tradition: Personalizing Buddhist Practice

Religion, Ordination, Chanting, Balance, Beginners, Lay, Community, Realization, Pain...
Jul 25 1970

Awakening Through Zen's No-Mind

Interdependence, Don't Know Mind, Silence, Meditation, Gratitude, Rinzai,...
Apr 03 1970

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 6

Sesshin, Ceremony, Freedom, Observe, Wisdom, Oneness, Beginners, Precepts
Dec 04 1969
Tassajara

Way-Seeking Mind, Part II

Serial: SR-00266

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 2
Sunday, November 30, 1969
Tassajara

Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin, Buddha Mind, Don't Know Mind, Big Mind, Intention,...
Nov 30 1969
Tassajara

Sesshin, Sixth Night Lecture

Serial: SR-00129

Tassajara
September, 1969

Sesshin, Don't Know Mind, Posture, Ceremony, Addiction, Duality, Beginners,...
Sep 1969
Tassajara

Some Questions

Question-and-Answer, Breath, Buddha Nature, Posture, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Aug 28 1969
Tassajara

I have nothing in my mind

Emptiness, Forms, Zazen, Buddha Nature, Freedom, Passions, Interview, Beginners,...
Jul 15 1969
Sokoji

Emptiness is Form

Serial: SF-05968

Sunday, June 29, 1969
San Francisco

Newly uploaded version has speed adjustments made; should be a little clearer for transcript - not just end, but correcting...

Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Current Events, Balance, Faith, Beginners, Continuous...
Jun 29 1969
Tassajara

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