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A ceremony (UK: , US: ) is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion.

The word may be of Etruscan origin, via the Latin caerimonia.

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Liberating Your Hands

Rumi, Health, Zazen, Letting Go, Ceremony, Freedom, Conversation
Apr 15 2007

Awakening Compassion in Every Moment

Ceremony, Enlightenment, Stillness
Apr 05 2007

Living in Accord with Birth and Death

Serial: SF-00991

Sesshin Lecture: confirming Buddha nature; sesshin: gathering of heart/mind; what's the business under the patchwork robe?; story of Patacara

Sesshin, Buddha Nature, Patacara, Birth-and-Death, Practice Period, Lineage, Ceremony...
Apr 02 2007
Green Gulch Farm

Happiness

Serial: RA-03398

The pursuit of happiness vs. wanting others to be happy; happiness from absorption in activity

Teachings on Happiness for Dancing Mountains Sangha newsletter
Date:...

Happiness, Ceremony, Concentration
Feb 03 2007
AM
No Abode Hermitage

Seijiki Ceremony - Relating to Death and Dying

Serial: SF-00029

Heading into winter; what is the most important thing at the end of your life? taking refuge; how are we also hungry ghosts; six realms.

Ceremony, Six Realms, Death-and-Dying, Offering, Vow, Ordination, Sangha, Emptiness,...
Oct 29 2006

Manifesting Intention: The Path Within

Intention, Study, Ceremony
Aug 2006

The Great Matter

Serial: SF-00085

How awareness of death, and our own mortality, spurs us to greater effort in practice.

Birth-and-Death, Impermanence, Suzuki Roshi, Gratitude, Heart Sutra, Ceremony,...
Mar 11 2006
City Center

March 2006 talk, Serial No. 00055, Side A

Silent Illumination, Letting Go, Ceremony, Book of Serenity, Blue Cliff Record...
Mar 2006

Practice Period

Serial: SF-00034

Origins of PP, meaning of 'ango'; Dogen's essay; resistance; hermit Jim; Rumi poems.

Practice Period, Dongshan, Dogen, Rumi, Buddha Ancestors, Zazen, Tassajara Zen...
Feb 19 2006
Green Gulch Farm

Words of Transformation in Zen

Ceremony, Repentance, Soto Zen
Jan 24 2006

Harmony in Transition: Beyond Dogmatism

Confession-and-Repentance, Repentance, Ceremony, Renunciation, Funeral
Jan 24 2006

Meditation's Transformative Journey Through Change

Confession-and-Repentance, Repentance, Ceremony, Renunciation, Practice Period...
Jan 24 2006

Path to Enlightenment: Challenges and Commitments

Ceremony, Yoga, Bodhisattva Vow
Jan 22 2006

Pathways to Zen Tranquility

Ceremony, Desire, Commitment, Bodhisattva Precepts, Silence
Jan 22 2006

Embracing Bodhisattva: Commitment and Community

Ceremony, Desire, Commitment, Bodhisattva Precepts
Jan 22 2006

Leaping Clear: Embrace Crisis Moments

Love, Ceremony
Oct 30 2005

Embracing Vulnerability for Spiritual Growth

Ceremony, Balance, Patience, Thoroughness, War
Oct 30 2005
Green Gulch Farm

Leaping Clear: Embracing Crisis for Growth

Mill Valley, Ceremony, Balance, Patience, Thoroughness
Oct 30 2005

No Self

Serial: SF-00971

One-day sitting lecture: Bodhisattva Initiation - dharma names; Buddha's second teaching - "No-self Characteristic Sutta"; shamata - posture instructions;...

Bodhisattva Precepts, Ceremony, Samatha, Precepts, Continuous Practice, Separation,...
Sep 17 2005
Green Gulch Farm

Forms and Ceremonies

Commitment, Ceremony, Practice
Jul 26 2005
The Yoga Room

Natural Liberation

Serial: SF-00035

Sunday talk.
Buddha teaches liberation; methods of liberation; birth and death is itself nirvana.

Birth-and-Death, Freedom, Dogen, Liberation, Renunciation, Nirvana, Letting Go,...
Jun 25 2005

Zen Harmony Through Tea Rituals

Ceremony, Japan, Offering
Jun 02 2005

Zen in Every Cup: Harmony Rituals

Ceremony, Japan, Offering
Jun 02 2005

Threads of Zen Interdependence

Ceremony, Offering, Heart Sutra, Breath, Lineage
Apr 17 2005

Words Beyond Boundaries: Zen Wisdom

Funeral, New Year, Lineage, Gratitude, Ceremony
Feb 28 2005

Tranquility, Mindfulness and Conciousness

Ceremony
Jan 14 2005
Class 5 Part 2
Green Gulch Farm

Universal Harmony Through Soto Zen

Ceremony, true dharma, War
2005

Sunday Lecture

Serial: SF-00940

World's largest ball of twine, snobbery, insight, calming our minds, shamata - tranquility practce, Dhammapada, monuments to warfare, GGF farm and kids, hate crime and Tam High...

Vow, Precepts, Hate, Non-violence, Bodhisattva Precepts, Intimacy, Interview,...
Dec 19 2004
Green Gulch Farm

Bodhidharma

Serial: RA-00384

Bodhidhar

Story of Bodhidharma and Emperor Wu

3 Pure Precepts

Embracing and Sustaining and being embraced and sustained (By forms and ceremonies, All Good...

Bodhidharma, Suzuki Roshi, Heart Sutra, Chanting, Patience, Commitment, Don't Know Mind,...
Dec 09 2004
Green Gulch Farm

Embracing Mistakes for True Insight

Continuous Practice, Ceremony, Bodhisattva Way, Letting Go, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Dec 01 2004

Mindful Tasting, Authentic Living

Ceremony, Desire, Peace, Way-Seeking Mind, Big Mind
Nov 07 2004

Presence in Every Raisin Moment

Ceremony, Desire, Peace, Way-Seeking Mind, Big Mind
Nov 07 2004

Lotus Sutra Class

Serial: SF-03549

Dining Room Class

Lotus Sutra, Ceremony, Perfect Wisdom, Buddha Nature, Nirvana, Zazen, Practice Period...
Nov 03 2004
Tassajara

Offering to Hungry Ghosts

Serial: RA-00399

11/3/04 Tenshin Roshi - Wed Nite

"Offering to Hungry Ghosts"

-Post-election Feelings

-Roshi's Mother's Death

-Sejiki Ceremony...

Impermanence, Practice Period, Diversity, Interdependence, Chanting, Culture, Doubt, Japan,...
Nov 03 2004

Sesshin Lecture

Serial: SF-03545

First Sesshin, Zendo Lecture

Ceremony, Offering, Lotus Sutra, Suzuki Roshi, Chanting, Branching Streams, Karma,...
Oct 29 2004
Tassajara

Purifying Presence in Zen Practice

Confession-and-Repentance, Repentance, Ceremony, Lineage
Oct 27 2004

Zen Ceremonies: Path to Selflessness

Ceremony, Confession-and-Repentance, Practice Period, Repentance
Oct 20 2004

Embodied Mindfulness in Soto Zen

Ceremony, Confession-and-Repentance, Repentance, Lotus Sutra
Oct 20 2004

Sitting Under The Rose-Apple Tree

Serial: SF-01016

Sunday Lecture

Balance, Darkness-and-Light, Bell, Commitment, Letting Go, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi,...
Oct 03 2004
Green Gulch Farm

Giving Up Gain and Loss

Serial: RA-00360

Sunday, July 11, 2004 - Giving Up Gain and Loss -

Tenshin Roshi

Suzuki Roshi, Renunciation, Bell, Harmonizing, Ceremony
Jul 07 2004

Cleveland-Fear and Fearlessnes

Yoga, Ceremony, Intention
Jun 07 2004

Composure Through Breath and Ritual

Serial: RB-02411

Seminar_The_Golden_Wind

Composure, Ceremony, Breath
Jun 2004
Luzern

Entering Buddha's Way: Precept Harmony

Precepts, Ceremony, Bodhisattva Precepts
May 30 2004

Being Real in Zen Practice

Priest, Sutra, Ceremony, Okesa
May 29 2004

Zen and the Eco-Consumer Code

Serial: SF-00156

Wednesday talk.
Ecopsychology; desires, needs, narcissism; nurturing through zazen.

Karma, Buddha Nature, Practice Period, Ceremony, Buddha Ancestors, Ego, Precepts,...
Nov 19 2003

Offerings

Serial: SF-00158

Sunday talk. Children's lecture.
Legend of the blue bonnets; Seijiki, offering food and light; karmic life and emptiness.

Offering, Ceremony, Emptiness, Emotions, Intuition, Practice Period, Precepts, Karma...
Nov 02 2003
Green Gulch Farm

Sesshin Lecture

Ceremony, Practice
Oct 29 2003
Tassajara

October 26th, 2003, Serial No. 00082

Letting Go, Ordinary Mind, Addiction, Ceremony, Silence
Oct 26 2003

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