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Zazen Practice: Intention; Getting to Zendo and Seeing Reality

Serial: BZ-00965A

Lecture

Family Practice, Posture, Precepts, Perfect Wisdom, Daily Life, Sangha, Anger,...
Mar 05 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Essence of Zen

Serial: BZ-00227

Class 3 of 3

Precepts, Practice Period, Priest, Culture, Dream World, Lay, Ordination, Interview,...
Mar 02 1994
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Helplessness: Profoundness of Dharma, Honoring Missed Opportunities

Serial: BZ-00979B

Lecture

Don't Know Mind, Priest, Silence, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Culture, Forgiveness,...
Feb 26 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #10

Serial: BZ-00980A

Essence of Mind "Alone and Poor", Saturday Lecture

MM-10, Attachment, Greed, Practice Period, Buddha Nature, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Feb 05 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan Case 15: Seeing Truth; Ordination and Dharma Transmission—Ordinariness

Serial: BZ-00981B

Lecture

Ordination, Berkeley Zen Center, Soto Zen, Culture, Mill Valley, Heart Sutra,...
Jan 29 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Lotus Sutra

Serial: BZ-00222

Clas 2 of 4

Lotus Sutra, Mahayana, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Instruction, Doubt,...
Jan 20 1994
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Peace, Compassion, Response

Serial: BZ-00982

Lecture

Karmic Consciousness, Peace, Attachment, Rinzai, Culture, Religion, Enemies,...
Jan 12 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Three Kinds of Pain: Physical, Emotional, Existential

Serial: BZ-00983A

Beginners' Sitting

Beginners, Gratitude, Birth-and-Death, Bell, Silence, Separation, Culture, Religion,...
Jan 09 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

1993.12.07-serial.00002

Silence, Culture, American, Precepts, Daily Life
Dec 07 1993

Maha Mangala Sutta

Serial: BZ-00216

From the October 1993 newsletter:

This year's study program moves from basic Buddhist images, to early Sutras, Mahayana, and Zen. The second class in this series...

Sangha, Religion, Precepts, Culture, Aspects of Practice, Impermanence, Daily Life,...
Nov 04 1993
2 of 4
Berkeley Zen Center

Segaki/Halloween

Serial: BZ-00659A

Saturday Lecture

Seijiki, Offering, Karma, Demons, Vow, Culture, Funeral, Sangha, Liberation,...
Oct 30 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Innumerable People’s Labors who Helped the Spread of Buddhism Throughout History

Serial: BZ-00656A

Lecture

Diversity, Religion, Politics, Culture, American, Priest, Vinaya, Ordination,...
Oct 02 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Problems and Practice with Ritual

Serial: BZ-00657B

Lecture

Culture, Bowing, American, confusion, Chanting, Practice Period, Precepts, training,...
Sep 25 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Chaos Theory, Hierarchy Theory and Buddhism

Mill Valley, Culture, Mindfulness, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Conversation,...
Jul 03 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Chaos Theory, Hierarchy Theory

Serial: BZ-01515B

Lecture

Mill Valley, Observe, Culture, Mindfulness, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Jul 03 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Bringing Practice into Everyday Life

Serial: BZ-00664A

Lecture

Right Speech, American, confusion, Birth-and-Death, Practice Period, Precepts,...
Apr 24 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Self Esteem, No Self: Personality and Enlightenment

Serial: BZ-00663A

Saturday Lecture

Teacher-and-Student, Bodhisattva Way, Bodhisattva Vow, confusion, Bell, Conversation...
Apr 17 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Prajapati and the Ordination of Women: Respecting the Life of the Unborn

Serial: BZ-00285B

Women's Sitting

Priest, Ordination, Happiness, Precepts, Culture, Religion, War, Lay
Mar 21 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Introduction to Buddhism

Serial: BZ-00262

Class 2 of 6

Four Noble Truths, Culture, Attachment, Impermanence, Dependent Origination, Right...
Mar 18 1993
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Introduction to Buddhism

Serial: BZ-00263

Class 1 of 6

Four Noble Truths, Culture, Nirvana, Religion, Karma, Enthusiasm, Anger, Hindrances,...
Mar 11 1993
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Ten Precepts: Eighth and Ninth Precepts

Serial: BZ-00620

Class 5 of 6

Anger, Precepts, Emotions, Bowing, Vow, Gratitude, Ordination, Culture, Greed,...
Feb 11 1993
5
Berkeley Zen Center

Ten Precepts: Third and Fifth Precepts

Serial: BZ-00618

Class 3 of 6

Precepts, Addiction, Intimacy, Right Speech, Bodhidharma, Vow, Bodhisattva Precepts,...
Jan 29 1993
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Darkness and Light: The Winter Holiday

Light-and-Darkness, Darkness and Light, Five Ranks, Discrimination, Samsara, Teacher-...
Dec 19 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Shakyamuni Buddha

Serial: BZ-00645B

Lecture

Concentration, Nirvana, Culture, Buddha Nature, Attachment, Beginners, Posture,...
Dec 12 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Red Shoes

Serial: BZ-00644A

Women's Sitting

Addiction, Subject-and-Object, Passions, Vow, Hate, Culture
Nov 22 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Balance: Relax Your Mind

Serial: BZ-00639B

Lecture

Culture, Buddha Nature, Samsara, Gratitude, Bodhidharma, Evil, Concentration, Bell,...
Oct 10 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Paramitas: Dana (Giving) and Sila (Virtue)

Serial: BZ-00611

Class 2 of 6

Precepts, Addiction, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Heart Sutra, Right Speech, Hindrances,...
Sep 24 1992
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Family, Friends, and Practice

Serial: BZ-00636A

Sesshin Day 1

Family Practice, Mundane Life, Family Practice, Daily Life, American, Anger,...
Sep 05 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan Case #42: What is a Zen Student? Manjusri and the Young Woman in Samadhi

Serial: BZ-00634A

Lecture

Manjushri, Building, Karma, Enthusiasm, Discrimination, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center...
Aug 15 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

1992.07.09-serial.00247A

American, Culture, zen meditation, Thich Nhat Hanh, Freedom
Jul 09 1992

Mumonkan Cases #30 & 33: Baso’s Two Responses: Buddha is Mind, Buddha is not Mind

Serial: BZ-00708B

Lecture

Intuition, Culture, Transmission, Ordinary Mind, Subject-and-Object, Teacher-and-...
Jun 20 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Tozan’s Five Ranks: Tozan’s Five Poems in 3 Translations

Serial: BZ-00609

Class 4 of 4

Dragons, Five Ranks, Attachment, Birth-and-Death, Culture, Ego, Buddha Nature, New...
Jun 11 1992
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #19

Serial: BZ-00711A

Ordinary Mind Is the Way, Saturday Lecture

Ordinary Mind, MM-19, Ordinary Mind, Doubt, confusion, Religion, Hate, Culture,...
Jun 07 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Tozan’s Five Ranks: Five Positions, Eight Consciousnesses

Serial: BZ-00608

Class 3 of 4

Birth-and-Death, Karmic Consciousness, Diversity, Discrimination, Buddha Nature, Ego...
Jun 04 1992
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00713B

Sesshin Day 2

American, Monastic Practice, Demons, Culture, Silence, Lineage, Religion
May 18 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00712B

Lecture

Silence, confusion, Emotions, Anger, Greed, Funeral, Discrimination, Conversation,...
May 09 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

After the King Verdict

Serial: BZ-00712A

Saturday Lecture

Current Events, Karma, Culture, Peace, War, training, Offering, American, confusion,...
May 02 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

The Death Penalty (discussion)

Serial: BZ-00679B

Saturday Lecture

Current Events, Precepts, cognitive process, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Diversity, Priest...
Apr 18 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00686A

Women's Sitting

Posture, Right Effort, Culture, Lineage, training, Beginners, Vow, Religion
Mar 01 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Transmission of Light

Eka, Bodhidharma, Four Noble Truths, Buddha Ancestors, Soto Zen, Greed, Birth-and-...
Dec 14 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Deep Ecology and Interconnectedness

Serial: BZ-00705A

Lecture

Conversation, Intimacy, Interdependence, Culture, American, training, Ego, Mahayana,...
Nov 23 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Encountering the True Dragon

Serial: BZ-00704A

Lecture

Dragons, Anger, Beginners, Posture, Culture, War, Sangha, Interview, Bowing, Lineage...
Nov 16 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Avatamsaka Sutra: The Ten Stages

Serial: BZ-00273

Class 2 of 4

Right Effort, Mindfulness, Light-and-Darkness, Concentration, Culture, Liberation,...
Nov 14 1991
2
Berkeley Zen Center

1991.11.04-serial.00307

Precepts, Commitment, Greed, Vinaya, Culture
Nov 04 1991

Green Tara Serial 00019

Concentration, Samadhi, Ceremony, Six Realms, Freedom, American, Equanimity, Emotions...
Oct 19 1991
Tape 1
Cupertino California

Practices in Everyday Life

Serial: BZ-00694A

Lecture

Cultivation, Culture, Monastic Practice, Right Speech, Bodhisattva Vow, Dharma...
Aug 24 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Path of Purification, Negative Space, Humanity and Nematoads

Serial: BZ-00972A

Lecture

Concentration, Culture, Doubt
Aug 10 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #10

Serial: BZ-00701A

Sesai is "Poor" and Asks Sozan for Help, Saturday Lecture

MM-10, Culture, Teacher-and-Student, resistance, Birth-and-Death, Priest, Soto Zen,...
Apr 27 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

1991.02.07-serial.00095

Intention, Community, Thich Nhat Hanh, Culture
Feb 07 1991

1990.12.06-serial.00084

Intention, Avalokiteshvara, Forgiveness, Culture, Bowing
Dec 06 1990

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