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Title	Speaker	Date
August 28th, 2009, Serial No. 01549, Side H American, Monastic Practice, training, Transmission, Blue Cliff Record, Culture,...		Aug 28 2009
Right Speech Conversation, Four Noble Truths, Right Speech, Right Effort, Passions, Evil,...	Peter Overton	Jul 11 2009
Continuous Practice Serial: BZ-02044 Shuso talk Practice Period, Continuous Practice, Conversation, Intimacy, Happiness, Passions,...	Ryushin Andrea Thach	Jun 19 2009
Perfect Effort, Blind Faith Serial: BZ-02039 Shuso talk Right Effort, Practice Period, Conversation, Ordinary Mind, Offering, Instruction,...	Ryushin Andrea Thach	Jun 06 2009
Class 2 Komyo Divine Light Transmission, Current Events, Silent Illumination, Discrimination, Conversation,...		May 21 2009
Threading the Eye of the Needle Serial: BZ-02029 Shuso talk Practice Period, Conversation, Buddha Nature, American, Funeral, Patience, Passions,...	Ryushin Andrea Thach	May 11 2009
Who is That One? Serial: BZ-02028 Shakyamuni and Maitreya are servants of That One, One-Day Sitting Non-duality, Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya, MM-45, Big Mind, Practice Period...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 09 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Being with the conditions we find ourselves in: Meeting the Tassajara fire: Serial No. 01159 Serial: BZ-01159 Saturday talk Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Enemies, Building, Anger, Impermanence, Practice...	Myogen Steve Stücky	Sep 20 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
The Buddha Way is Ongoing Crisis Bodhisattva Precepts, Precepts, Letting Go, Conversation, Buddha Mind	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Aug 16 2008 Morning No Abode Hermitage
Entering and Embodying Truth Conversation, Community, War, Bodhisattva Precepts	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Aug 12 2008 The Yoga Room
Saving the Sentient Beings of our own Mind: Zen and Psychology Serial: BZ-01151 Saturday Lecture Dependent Origination, Emotions, Vow, Demons, Conversation, Bodhisattva Vow, Anger,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Aug 09 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record: Case #53 Serial: BZ-01143 Hyakujo's Wild Duck, Sesshin Day 5 Hyakujo, BCR-53, Absolute-and-Relative, Buddha Nature, Ordinary Mind, Daily Life,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 22 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
April 19th, 2008, Serial No. 01126 Karma, Right Speech, Soto Zen, Conversation, Culture, Peace, Cultivation, Silence...		Apr 19 2008
March 8th, 2008, Serial No. 01119 Impermanence, Book of Serenity, Culture, Conversation, Gratitude, Lineage, confusion...		Mar 08 2008
February 16th, 2008, Serial No. 01114 Happiness, Evil, Doubt, Liberation, Lay, Nirvana, Teacher-and-Student, Observe,...		Feb 16 2008
Ryokan Serial: BZ-01111 Teaching Retreat part 2 of 2 Offering, Silence, New Year, Hate, Passions, Separation, Conversation, Peace,...	Shohaku Okumura	Jan 26 2008 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Balancing the Spiritual and Material Wheels: Serial: BZ-01001 The Protests in Burma, Saturday Lecture Balance, Politics, Burma, War, American, Soto Zen, Fundraising, Lay, Chanting,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 29 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
September 23rd, 2007, Serial No. 01000 Conversation, Don't Know Mind, Concentration, Daily Life, Attachment, Zoom,...		Sep 23 2007
Liberating Your Hands Rumi, Health, Zazen, Letting Go, Ceremony, Freedom, Conversation	Edward Brown	Apr 15 2007
Sesshin as a Koan for the Body Serial: SF-00990 Sesshin Lecture: Easter/Buddha's Birthday; enlightenment experiences; dharmakaya; not doing anything; nirmanakaya; this is your life Sesshin, Enlightenment, San Quentin, Zazen, Buddha's Birthday, Birth-and-Death,...	Myogen Steve Stücky	Apr 08 2007 Green Gulch
March 17th, 2007, Serial No. 01425 Demons, Happiness, Daily Life, Anger, Priest, Greed, Passions, Evil, Conversation,...		Mar 17 2007
Dogen's Acupuncture Point of Zazen: Beating the cart or beating the horse Serial: BZ-01423 Saturday Lecture Zazenshin, Dogen, Lineage, Separation, Dharma Transmission, Dogen, Transmission,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 03 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
February 5th, 2007, Serial No. 01417 Practice Period, Vow, Precepts, Teacher-and-Student, Evil, Tassajara Zen Mountain...		Feb 05 2007
Dealing With Mistakes: Rice and Sand— Working with our “Sandy” Path Serial: BZ-01409 Saturday Lecture Instruction, Buddha Mind, Conversation, Precepts, Karma, Aspects of Practice,...	Peter Schireson	Dec 16 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Zendo Forms Serial: BZ-01407 Serving, Mokugyo, Chanting, Rohatsu Day 7 Meal Serving, Chanting, Mokugyo, Instruction, Doanryo, New Year, Bowing, Chanting,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 03 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Practicing Precepts: Practicing Precepts in Zazen Serial: BZ-01394 One Day Sitting Precepts, Aspects of Practice, Bodhisattva Precepts, Practice Period, Concentration,...	Ron Nestor	Oct 22 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Eventual Transition of Abbacy Serial: BZ-01389 Practice Positions Complete Practice; Small and Large Equal, Saturday Lecture Practice Position, Transmission, Practice Position, Dharma Transmission, Ego,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 30 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Right Speech Serial: SF-00037 The eight-fold path and its relationship to the precepts. Right Speech, Suzuki Roshi, Conversation, Heart Sutra, Zazen, Buddha Nature, Precepts...	Marc Lesser	Sep 16 2006
Blue Cliff Record: Case #76 Serial: BZ-01181 Tanka's "Have You Had Your Dinner Yet?", Sesshin Day 1 Tanka, BCR-76, Light-and-Darkness, Offering, Daily Life, Teacher-and-Student, Evil,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 02 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record Case #55: “Alive or Dead?” Remembering John King Serial: BZ-01178 Saturday Lecture Death-and-Dying, Blue Cliff Record, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period,...	Mary Mocine	Aug 12 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
What Does It Mean to Practice Prajna Paramita? Serial: BZ-01167 Sesshin Day 2 Heart Sutra, Religion, Nirvana, Four Noble Truths, Practice Period, Non-duality,...	Karen Sundheim	Jun 15 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
The Great Matter Serial: SF-00085 How awareness of death, and our own mortality, spurs us to greater effort in practice. Birth-and-Death, Suzuki Roshi, Impermanence, Gratitude, Heart Sutra, Ceremony,...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Mar 11 2006 City Center
Shobogenzo: Practice and Enlightenment Go Together Serial: BZ-01221 One Day Sitting Gaining Mind, Mindfulness, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Separation, Non-duality,...	Ron Nestor	Mar 11 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
When Things Go Wrong Serial: BZ-01212 Saturday Lecture Aspects of Practice, Light-and-Darkness, Right Speech, Five Ranks, Non-duality,...	Denkei Raul Moncayo	Jan 28 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Crisis: A Spiritual Turning Point Spiritual life exists in crisis, which can be used as a turning point. To the extent that we recognize that where we sit right now is a turning point, we are able to understand the possibility of... Conversation, Faith, Transmission, Priest, War	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jan 08 2006 Part 1 Green Gulch Farm
“Not Always So” from Not Always So Serial: BZ-01037A Class 2 of 4 Conversation, Vow, Precepts, Zoom, Beginners, Composure, Enemies, Evil, Tassajara Zen...	Richard Haefele	Nov 03 2005 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Changing Our Karma Karma, Offering, Conversation, Vow, Politics, Happiness, Hate, Duality, Culture,...	Laurie Senauke	Oct 29 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
October 29th, 2005, Serial No. 01196 Karma, Offering, Conversation, Vow, Politics, Happiness, Duality, Culture, Priest...		Oct 29 2005
Saving Sentient Beings of Your Own Mind Serial: BZ-01191 Review of Sojun's List of Mental Formations, Saturday Lecture Gaining Mind, Anger, Buddha Nature, Bodhisattva Vow, Vow, Forgiveness, Intuition,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 01 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Intuition Serial: BZ-01185 Sesshin Day 1 Intuition, Body-and-Mind, Intuition, Posture, Instruction, Beginners, Commitment,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 03 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Trip to Japan: Jizos for Peace Serial: BZ-01343 Saturday Lecture Peace, War, Vow, Six Realms, Avalokiteshvara, Bell, Soto Zen, Chanting, Conversation...	Jisan Tova Green	Aug 27 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Communication Serial: BZ-01341 Saturday Lecture Silence, Right Speech, Culture, Conversation, Intimacy, Observe, Passions,...	Ross Blum	Aug 13 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Making Mistakes Serial: BZ-01339C Saturday Lecture Teacher-and-Student, Mahayana, Manjushri, Sangha, Conversation, Precepts	Denkei Raul Moncayo	Jul 30 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Title Unknown Serial: BZ-01331 Sesshin Day 3 resistance, Constancy, Interdependence, Bodhidharma, Conversation, Hate, War...	Greg Denny	Jun 24 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Dropping Body and Mind Serial: BZ-01326 Saturday Lecture Separation, Practice Period, Ego, Intuition, Conversation, Culture, American...	Greg Denny	Jun 04 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Title Unknown Serial: BZ-00584 Sesshin day 7 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period, Buddha Nature, Emotions, Zoom, Demons...	Leslie James	Mar 29 2005 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
Way seeking Mind, Part 4 Serial: BZ-01571 Part 4, first half Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Humility, Doubt, Passions, Conversation, War,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 15 2005 1 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
Title Unknown Serial: BZ-01281 Women's Sitting Practice Period, Buddha Nature, Precious Mirror, Nirvana Sutra, Hindrances, Heart...	Baika Pratt	Sep 26 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Problems, Composure Serial: BZ-01269 Sesshin Day 3 Composure, Practice Period, Intimacy, Conversation, training, Ego	Baika Pratt	Jun 18 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
As Large as Life: Zen Koans for Everyday Practice; Mumonkan Case #6 Buddha Twirls a Flower Serial: BZ-01019A Class 2 of 4 Lotus Sutra, Transmission, Lineage, Intimacy, Karma, Nirvana Sutra, Conversation, Fox...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Mar 01 2004 2 Berkeley Zen Center

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