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Blue Cliff Record: Case #2

Serial: BZ-00725

Lecture

BCR-2, Discrimination, Attachment, Duality, Oneness, Non-discrimination, Beginners,...
Nov 17 1990
Unknown Location

Mumonkan Case 19: Ordinary Mind is the Way

Ordinary Mind, Big Mind, Practice Period, Buddha Nature, Dragons, Teacher-and-Student...
Aug 03 1990
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

Bodhidharma Travels East

Serial: BZ-00511A

Saturday Lecture

Bodhidharma, First Principle, Bodhidharma, Gratitude, Intuition, Attachment, Big Mind...
Jul 07 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Ordinary Mind is the Way

Serial: BZ-00506B

One-Day Sitting

Ordinary Mind, Ordinary Mind, Posture, Ego, Practice Period, Eight Aspects, Doubt,...
May 12 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

The Triple Treasure

Serial: BZ-00499

Saturday Lecture

Three Treasures, Three Treasures, Sangha, Big Mind, Teacher-and-Student, Buddha...
Feb 03 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #7: Pt. 2

Serial: BZ-00382

"You Are, Echo", Sesshin Day 2

BCR-7, Buddha Nature, Pure Existence, Big Mind, Fox, Bodhidharma, Precepts, Anger,...
Sep 04 1989
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #7: Pt. 1

Serial: BZ-00381

"You Are, Echo", Sesshin Day 1

BCR-7, Buddha Mind, Karma, Dragons, Absolute-and-Relative, Big Mind, confusion, Daily...
Sep 03 1989
Berkeley Zen Center

Bowing: Practice of Non-duality

Bowing, Big Mind, Non-duality, Buddha Nature, Buddha Mind, Offering, Teacher-and-...
Feb 23 1989
City Center

Effort During Sesshin

Serial: BZ-00326

Sesshin Day 5

Effort, Sesshin, Equanimity, Concentration, Repentance, Big Mind, Hindrances,...
Feb 22 1989

September 10th, 1988, Serial No. 00366, Side A

confusion, Dragons, Big Mind, Instruction, Buddha Nature, Priest, Rinzai, Bowing,...
Sep 10 1988

Blue Cliff Record: Case #51: Seppo’s “What is it?”

Serial: BZ-01498A

Seppo's "What Is It?", Saturday Lecture

Issan, confusion, Dragons, Big Mind, Instruction, Buddha Nature, Priest, Rinzai,...
Sep 10 1988
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan

Serial: BZ-00898A

One-Day Sitting

Genjokoan, Heart Sutra, Big Mind, Obstacles, Bowing, Samadhi, Chanting, Concentration...
Apr 24 1988
Berkeley Zen Center

February 24th, 1988, Serial No. 01534

Serial: BZ-01534

Fifth day of sesshin at Green Gulch Farm. 

Two Truths, Four Noble Truths, Duality, Vow, Ego, Non-duality, Passions,...
Feb 24 1988
5 of 7
Green Gulch Farm

The Bodhisattva Way

Serial: BZ-00875B

Saturday Lecture

Bodhisattva Way, Karma, Samsara, Emotions, Attachment, Bowing, Big Mind, Hindrances,...
Apr 25 1986
Berkeley Zen Center

Way-Seeking Mind Within Any Circumstances

Serial: BZ-00866A

Lecture

Doubt, confusion, Continuous Practice, Light-and-Darkness, Karma, Big Mind, Anger,...
Nov 02 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Fukanzazengi; Questions and Answers

Serial: BZ-00415A

Saturday Lecture

Fukanzazengi, Discrimination, Continuous Practice, Enemies, Peace, Subject-and-Object...
Jun 08 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Tenzo Kyokun

Serial: BZ-00426B

Saturday Lecture

Tenzo Kyokun, Practice Position, Six Realms, Demons, Buddha Mind, Karma, Ego, Big...
May 18 1985
Part 2 of 2
Berkeley Zen Center

Breathing in Zazen

Serial: BZ-00405B

Rohatsu

Zazen, Breath, Zazen Mind, confusion, Discrimination, Big Mind, Birth-and-Death,...
Dec 04 1984
Berkeley Zen Center

The Precepts Before the Precepts

Serial: BZ-00392B

Saturday Lecture

Precepts, Precepts, Obstacles, Bodhisattva Precepts, Discrimination, Buddha Nature,...
Nov 10 1984
Berkeley Zen Center

Spiritual Athletics and Mindful Unity

Big Mind, Samadhi, Vow, Bell, Intention
Apr 07 1984

Embrace the Unfolding Unknown

Faith, Big Mind, Letting Go, Doubt, Emptiness
Mar 27 1984

Embracing the Wild Within

Daily Life, Big Mind, Concentration, Harmonizing, Bodhidharma
Mar 18 1984

Horizons of Mindful Creativity

Non-discrimination, Equanimity, Discrimination, Big Mind
Feb 08 1984

Home for the Holidays Practicing Our Koan: "What Is This?"

Religion, Precepts, Dana, Big Mind, Offering, Duality
Dec 18 1982

Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo -- Endless Dimension

Serial: BZ-00016A

Ten Phrase Avalokiteshvara Sutra, Sesshin Day 1

Dharani, Buddha Nature, Birth-and-Death, Sangha, Big Mind, Evil, Karma, Manjushri,...
Feb 20 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

February 5th, 1981, Serial No. 00398

Impermanence, Big Mind, Interdependence, Consciousness, Bell, Pain, American,...
Feb 05 1981

Ascending the Zen Pole of Effort

Big Mind, Ego, Soto Zen, Building, Separation, Intention, Evil
Sep 03 1976

Big Mind, Endless Compassion Journey

Big Mind, Patience, Buddha Mind, Buddha Nature, Funeral, Compassion, Suffering...
Dec 04 1971

Why We Must Have Rules

First Principle, Big Mind, Family Practice, Bell, Breath, Sutra, Observe
Aug 17 1971
Tassajara

Obon Days

Ceremony, Big Mind, Nishiari Bokusan, Offering, Suffering, American, Faith
Aug 12 1971
Tassajara

Why Then Is It Necessary To Accept Precepts

Precepts, Precepts, Big Mind, Buddha Nature, Religion, Observe, Priest, Zazen,...
Jul 17 1971
City Center

Resuming Big Mind

Serial: SR-00272

Sesshin Lecture No. 1
Friday, February 5, 1971
San Francisco

[”For this seven-day sesshin, there are only transcriptions for lectures given on Days 1, 3, 5,...

Sesshin, Big Mind, Hate, Zoom, Zazen, Anger, Ceremony, Pain
Feb 05 1971
City Center

The Boss of Everything

Zazen, Big Mind, confusion, Precepts, Bodhidharma, Zazen, Suffering, Observe...
Jan 16 1971
City Center

Buddha Is Always Here

Serial: SR-00051

Sandokai Lecture III
Monday, June 1, 1970
Tassajara

[The following lines of the Sandokai are discussed in this lecture:

Line 5 Reigen myoni kokettari...

Branching Streams, Sandokai, Emptiness, Buddha Nature, Suffering, Truth, Compassion,...
Jun 01 1970
Tassajara

Things-As-It-Is

Serial: SR-00048

Sandokai Lecture I
Wednesday, May 27, 1970
Tassajara

[This is the first in a series of lectures on the Sandokai (Chin. Cantong qi or Tisan-tiung-chii), a...

Branching Streams, Sandokai, Big Mind, Discrimination, Freedom, Oneness, Bell,...
May 27 1970
Tassajara

The Zen of Going to the Rest Room

Ummon, Tangaryo, Culture, Monastic Practice, Suffering, American, Don't Know...
Mar 29 1970
City Center

Non-Dualistic Practice

Serial: SR-00260

Sesshin Lecture No. 3:
Wednesday, February 25, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Big Mind, difficulty, Duality, Karma, Anger, Mahayana, Emptiness, Suffering...
Feb 25 1970
City Center

What Is Our Practice?

Serial: BZ-00028

Off site lecture

Big Mind, Concentration, Building, Offering, Emotions, Anger
Jan 04 1970
San Francisco Zen Center

Respect for Things

Serial: SR-00200

What Is Our Practice?
Sunday, January 4, 1970
San Francisco

Practice as taking care of everything. Not making a noise with the chairs. Practice with new...

Bodhisattva Way, Big Mind, Building, Concentration, difficulty, Sutra, Bowing,...
Jan 04 1970
City Center

Shosan Ceremony

Serial: SF-05964

Friday, December 5, 1969

Previously described as intranscribable - now clearer
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File name: 69-12-05N: untitled level low. [Verbatim transcript not...

Ceremony, Shosan, Sixth Patriarch, Big Mind, Letting Go, Separation, Attachment,...
Dec 05 1969
Tassajara

Way-Seeking Mind, Part III

Serial: SR-00194

Winter Sesshin, Day 3, Lecture No. 3
Monday, December 1, 1969
Tassajara

Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin, Big Mind, difficulty, Vow, Monks, Priest, American...
Dec 01 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

Epilogue: Zen Mind

Serial: SR-00263

American practice different from Japanese practice. Enlightenment experience is beyond good and bad, beyond our usual way of thinking. Big mind is always with you, never...

Big Mind, Enlightenment, Passions, Big Mind, Don't Know Mind, Consciousness,...
Nov 16 1969

Form Is Emptiness and Emptiness Is Form

Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Big Mind, Forms, Don't Know Mind, Interdependence, Monks...
Nov 13 1969

How should we establish our system of practice in San Francisco

Serial: SR-00019

Tuesday Evening, June 17, 1969
San Francisco

Just sit, and follow the teacher's instruction. Story of four kinds of horse. Humans go to the moon, but don't...

Rinzai, Soto Zen, Dogen, Zazen, New Year, Concentration, Big Mind, Priest, Pain,...
Jun 17 1969
Sokoji

Zen Water Wisdom: Unyielding Effort Unfolds

Consciousness, Big Mind, Obstacles, Emotions, New Year, Samadhi, Suffering, Ego, Hate...
Jun 10 1969

Jumping Off the 100-Foot Pole

Serial: SR-00016

Sunday Lecture
Sunday, April 20, 1969

Buddha Nature, Evil, Priest, Big Mind, Compassion, Continuous Practice
Apr 20 1969

Listening to Silence: Path to Harmony

Silence, Big Mind, Suffering, Meditation, Birth-and-Death, Fox, Patience, Vow,...
Apr 19 1969

Shuso Ceremony

Serial: SF-05143C

SR023 Last 2/3 side 2 Philip's discussion ceremony - copied 2 tapes [there are also photographs of hand-written notes on missing portions of Q&A - per tape operator...

Sesshin, Shuso Ceremony, Big Mind, Bell, Bodhidharma, Gratitude, Buddha Nature,...
Apr 23 1968
C
Tassajara

Putting Power In Your Hara

Serial: SF-05133A

Afternoon Sesshin Lecture
Friday, December 1, 1967, Lecture A
Zen Mountain Center

Sesshin, Dogen, Fukanzazengi, Buddha Mind, Big Mind, Separation, New Year,...
Dec 01 1967
A
Tassajara

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