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Buddha Mind Talks

Buddha-mind (Chinese foxing, Japanese busshin) refers to bodhicitta, "[the] Buddha's compassionate and enlightened mind," and/or to Buddha-nature, "the originally clear and pure mind inherent in all beings to which they must awaken."

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Buddha’s Birthday

Serial: BZ-01485

Lecture

Buddha's Birthday, Buddha Mind, Religion, Fasting, Offering, Renewal, Interview...
Apr 05 1987
Berkeley Zen Center

Refining Your Life: How to Practice in a Position

Serial: BZ-00883B

Saturday Lecture

Practice Position, Buddha Mind, Happiness, Monastic Practice, Posture, Practice...
Nov 08 1986
Berkeley Zen Center

Experiencing Reality Beyond Perception

Posture, Perfect Wisdom, Delusion, Letting Go, Buddha Mind
Nov 02 1986

Intrinsically Enlightened: Embrace Your Nature

Community, Forgiveness, Buddha Mind, War, Buddha Nature
Oct 05 1986

Tenzo Kyokun

Serial: BZ-00426B

Saturday Lecture

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

Creating Practice Using the Forms at Hand: Layman Pang

Serial: BZ-00425A

Saturday Lecture

Lay Practice, Layman Pang, Mindfulness, Buddha Mind, Sixth Patriarch, Monastic...
Mar 09 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Doing Zazen All Day Long Without Crossing Your Legs

Serial: BZ-00423B

Saturday Lecture

Buddha Mind, Monastic Practice, Daily Life, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Posture...
Mar 02 1985
Berkeley Zen Center

Mind in Zazen

Serial: BZ-00405A

Rohatsu

Ordinary Mind, Buddha Mind, Zazen, Building, Sixth Patriarch, Concentration, Enemies...
Dec 03 1984
Berkeley Zen Center

Fourth Paramita: Virya (Effort)

Serial: BZ-00391B

Lecture

Virya, Patience, Buddha Mind, Concentration, Chanting, Monastic Practice, Subject-and...
Nov 01 1984
Part 2 of 2
Berkeley Zen Center

Meeting with Berkeley Zen Center

Serial: BZ-00032

Meeting

Buddha Mind, Fundraising, Interview, Lay, Lay Practice, Sangha, Soto Zen, Teacher-and...
Jul 08 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

Eternal Wisdom in Impermanent Reality

Impermanence, Nirvana, Birth-and-Death, difficulty, Buddha Mind, Emotions, Buddha...
May 07 1982

Enlightenment: Personal Realization, Communal Validation

Buddha Mind, Buddha Nature, Compassion, Culture, Dharma Transmission, difficulty,...
Mar 19 1982

Eternal Light and Timeless Liberation

Buddha Nature, Buddha Mind, Perfect Wisdom, Nirvana, Liberation, Compassion,...
Mar 12 1982

Rinzai Zen

Serial: BZ-00015

Sesshin day 1

Sixth Patriarch, Soto Zen, Lotus Sutra, Heart Sutra, Platform Sutra, Doubt, Buddha...
Feb 26 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

Shikantaza: The Art of Just Sitting

Buddha Mind, Intimacy, Mindfulness, Anger, Emotions
Dec 19 1979

Beginner's Mind, Boundless Possibility

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

Sitting Beyond Thought: Embodying Truth

Buddha Mind, Buddha Nature, Chanting, Emotions, Intention, Mahayana, Realization,...
Feb 25 1972

The Flow of Continuous Awakening

Buddha Mind, Conversation, Discrimination, Hate, Impermanence, Liberation, Oneness,...
Dec 05 1971

Big Mind, Endless Compassion Journey

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

Seeing Through the Buddha's Eye

Attachment, Buddha Mind, Ceremony, Chanting, Discrimination, Gratitude, Observe,...
Dec 1971

Finding the Absolute Within Zen

Breath, Buddha Mind, Delusion, Addiction, Concentration, Building
Aug 14 1971

Universal Practice for Laymen and Monks

Serial: SR-00175

Whatever you do is practice; be careful not to practice for the sake of the self. Zazen as a way to find realization and get used to realization. Whether priest or layperson,...

Practice, Zazen, Bodhisattva, Dogen, Sixth Patriarch, Anger, Buddha Mind, Community,...
Jul 25 1971
Tassajara

Our Practice is Expression of Our True Buddha-mind

Serial: SR-00067

Sesshin Lecture, No. 4
Tuesday Evening, August 4, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Precepts, Beginner’s Mind, Buddha Mind, Discrimination, Duality, Mahayana,...
Aug 04 1970
City Center

Embracing No-Mind in Everyday Zen

Buddha Mind, Community, Don't Know Mind, Enemies, Hate, Impermanence, Interview...
Apr 21 1970

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

Beyond Words: Living Zen Wisdom

Silence, difficulty, Meditation, Buddha Mind, Enemies, Buddha Nature, Discrimination...
Oct 07 1969

Zazen: Unlocking True Nature

Birth-and-Death, Buddha Mind, Chanting, Delusion, Religion, Silence, Teacher-and-...
Sep 07 1969

Eulogy For Trudy Dixon Given During Her Funeral Ceremony

Serial: SR-00028

Words from the funeral eulogy for Trudy Dixon. Magnanimous mind

Tassajara, Dogen, Buddha Mind, Buddha Mind, Passions, Compassion
Jul 11 1969
Sokoji

Beyond Perceptions: Embracing Buddha's World

Beginners, Buddha Mind, Ceremony, Continuous Practice, Lotus Sutra, Monastic Practice...
Apr 12 1969

Transcending Cycles Through Zen Mindfulness

Causation, Suffering, Buddha Mind, Birth-and-Death, difficulty, Buddha Nature,...
Feb 18 1969

Think the Unthinkable

Serial: SF-05137B

===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #20, by Shundo David Haye ===== 

This talk comes from the middle of the second sesshin at Tassajara, in December...

Sesshin, Fukanzazengi, Buddha Mind, Sanctuary, Duality, Beginners, Separation, Evil...
Dec 04 1967
Afternoon
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, Discrimination, Big Mind, Bodhidharma, New...
Dec 01 1967
A
Tassajara

Shōbōgenzō

Serial: SF-05093F

Thursday, August 18, 1966
SESSHIN LECTURE: Thursday, 1:00 pm, Lecture B
Sokoji, San Francisco

Sesshin, Buddha Mind, Birth-and-Death, Dana Paramita, Fasting, Interdependence...
Aug 18 1966
B
Sokoji

We Are Not Perfect

Serial: SF-05080A

Sesshin talk. At the beginning, Suzuki Roshi is drawing from Dogen's "Bodhisattva's Four Methods of Guidance." The methods are also in Shushogi.

Sesshin, Bodhisattva, Shushogi, Buddha Mind, Buddhism, Buddha
Jul 23 1966
Sokoji

Tokusan and The Old Lady

Serial: SF-05114A

===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #8, by Shundo David Haye =====

At Zen Center, responsibilities get passed on from person to person regularly. One part of traditional...

Genjokoan, Buddha Mind, Zazen, Culture
Feb 19 1966
pm
Sokoji

If You Understand Bodhisattva Mind In A Dualistic Way

Serial: SF-05126D

Tape 3 Summer Sesshin July 1965 - Wednesday July 28 1965 Tape 3 Side 1: Wednesday 1pm lecture - transcribed; copied June 30 1973; SR001

Sesshin, Shobogenzo, Buddha Nature, Buddha Mind, confusion
Jul 28 1965
C
Sokoji

Wisdom Seeks For Wisdom

Serial: SF-05128

===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #2, by Shundo David Haye =====

Among the tapes previously known to exist in the Zen Center archives, the earliest were from a sesshin...

Precepts, Genjokoan, Instruction, Precepts, Buddha Nature, Freedom, Buddha Mind,...
Jul 22 1965
Los Altos

The Book of Serenity

Serial: BZ-00241

Class 3 of 5

Birth-and-Death, Duality, Hsin Hsin Ming, Non-duality, Buddha Nature, Doubt, Buddha...
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Unknown Title, Serial 00421, Side B

Buddha Nature, Platform Sutra, Lineage, Anger, Soto Zen, Buddha Mind, Rinzai,...

2000.02.02-serial.00122

Attachment, Buddha Mind, Buddha Nature, Ego, Four Noble Truths, Freedom, Greed, Heart...

Buddha Activity

The work of buddhas — buddha activity — is realizing intimacy and liberation in conversation together with all beings. In this series of meetings we will contemplate what it is to fully engage with...

YRB-2019-Spring, Buddha Mind, Commitment, Duality, Faith, Intimacy, Separation,...
2/7
The Yoga Room

A Conversation about Principle and Phenomena

Buddha Mind, confusion, Don't Know Mind, Harmonizing, Heart Sutra, Japan,...
AM
No Abode Hermitage

Buddha's Birthday

Serial: BZ-01429

(and songs sung by the children), Saturday Lecture

Buddha's Birthday, Birth-and-Death, Buddha Mind, Buddha's Birthday,...
Berkeley Zen Center

Faith in Buddhism: True Buddhism Has No Gste

Serial: BZ-01056A

Class 4 of 5

Buddha Mind, Buddha Nature, Discrimination, Doubt, Ego, Eight Aspects, Nirvana,...
4
Berkeley Zen Center

True Humility and Buddha's Practice

Serial: BZ-01101

Bare Attention and Not Anticipating, Rohatsu Day 3

Practice, Shikantaza, Anger, Attachment, Bell, Buddha Mind, Don't Know Mind, Ego...
Berkeley Zen Center

Fath of Delusion

Serial: BZ-01154A

Teaching Retreat

Anger, Attachment, Birth-and-Death, Buddha Mind, Four Noble Truths, Karma, Mahayana,...
Part 2 of 2
Berkeley Zen Center

Protecting and Liberating All Beings

A residential retreat at Mount Madonna.

MtMadonna-2021-Fall, Addiction, Buddha Mind, Karmic Consciousness, Observe
1 of 4
Mount Madonna Center

Master Ma is Unwell

Serial: BZ-02503

Koan Class 1

Birth-and-Death, Bodhidharma, Book of Serenity, Buddha Mind, Fox, Lineage, Lotus...

Echoes of Zen: Mindful Origins

Bodhidharma, Buddha Mind, Lotus Sutra, Mindfulness

Unveiling Oneness: The Mindful Path

Mindfulness, Oneness, Separation, Buddha Mind, Repentance

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