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Dongshan Class 1

First Principle, Transmission, Subject-and-Object, Oneness, Heart Sutra, Continuous...
Aug 25 2020

Zazen and Resilience

Serial: TL-00665

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Patience, First Principle, Intuition, Don't Know Mind, Zazen Mind
May 24 2020
Zoom

Wherever you are Enlightenment is Here

Big Mind, First Principle, Commitment, Buddha Nature, Practice Period, Ego,...
Oct 14 2017

Beyond Calmness of Mind

First Principle, Harmonizing, Aspects of Practice, Birth-and-Death, Building,...
Oct 07 2017

The Heart of Training, The Training of the Heart

training, Precepts, Practice Period, First Principle, Priest-and-Lay, Priest,...
May 20 2017

Sangha

Big Mind, Non-violence, Birth-and-Death, Evil, New Year, Daily Life, Blue Cliff...
Jan 28 2017

The Bodhisattva Chaplaincy

Lotus Sutra, training, Evil, First Principle, Buddha Nature, Book of Serenity, Lay,...
Aug 27 2016

Every Day Is a Good Day

Big Mind, First Principle, Continuous Practice, Evil, Buddha Mind, Composure, Aspects...
Nov 08 2014

Pick Up a Speck of Dust

Big Mind, Birth-and-Death, First Principle, Blue Cliff Record, Peace, Constancy,...
Oct 18 2014

Climate Rally in D.C.

Serial: TL-00285

ADZG Monday Night,
Dharma Talk

First Principle, Global Warming, Money, Building, Concentration
Feb 18 2013
ADZG Temple

Money is Pure

Serial: BZ-02231

Money and Labor Talk by Suzuki Roshi, Sesshin Day 2

Dogen, Cooking, Dana Paramita, Fox, Culture, Evil, Building, First Principle, Buddha...
Feb 19 2012
Part 1 of 2
Berkeley Zen Center

Zazenshin Class

Dragons, Buddha Ancestors, Teacher-and-Student, First Principle, Non-duality, Lineage...
May 19 2011
2

Direct Experience of Reality

Serial: BZ-02146

Suzuki Roshi, Rohatsu Day 4

Idealistic and Realistic Zen

 

First Principle, Bell, Continuous Practice, Birth-and-Death, Repentance, Sangha,...
Dec 08 2010
Berkeley Zen Center

What the Holy Ones Did Not Preach

Serial: BZ-02078

Essence of Mind, One-Day Sitting

BCR-28, First Principle, Intuition, Don't Know Mind, Passions, Buddha Mind,...
Jan 24 2010
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #3: Introduction to Kôan Study

Serial: BZ-01128

Baso's Sun-face Buddha, Moon-face Buddha, Saturday Lecture

Buddha, Baso, BCR-3, First Principle, Duality, Non-duality, Buddha Nature, Non-...
May 03 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Faith in Buddhism: Introduction

Serial: BZ-01053A

Class, 1 of 5

Subject-and-Object, Doubt, Religion, Mahayana, First Principle, Concentration, Buddha...
May 17 2007
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Preparation for Practice Period

Serial: BZ-01229

Saturday Lecture

Practice Period, Practice Period, Heart Sutra, Pure Existence, Lay Practice, Daily...
Apr 15 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Birth and Death

Serial: SF-00970

Sunday Lecture - Children's Lecture: children's story - Amos and Boris; response to Hurrican Katrina; Story of king, knowing death is coming; vowing to live for the benefit of...

Birth-and-Death, Vow, Four Noble Truths, First Principle, Lotus Sutra, Mill Valley,...
Sep 04 2005
Green Gulch

Lotus Sutra Class

Serial: SF-03557

Dining Room Class

Lotus Sutra, Intimacy, Vow, Zendo, Manjushri, First Principle, Ordinary Mind, Suzuki...
Dec 03 2004
Tassajara

Buddhism, Christianity, War and Peace

Serial: SF-00939

Sunday Lecture: Two types of training: compassion and wisdom (wisdom: the entire universe is the true human body); US history; Christianity (is evil 'outside' or not); Mara...

First Principle, Hate, Evil, Faith, Soto Zen, Heart Sutra, Bodhidharma, Separation,...
May 16 2004
Green Gulch

Wednesday Lecture

Serial: SF-01023

Linda Ruth with her sick mother. The mountain lion. The bobcat. The rat. New film, "The Passion of Christ". Self-restraint. Mindfulness of the body. Angulimala.

Hate, Current Events, First Principle, Passions, Precepts, Doubt, training,...
Mar 17 2004
Green Gulch

Blue Cliff Record: Case #5

Serial: BZ-01382

Saturday Lecture

BCR-5, First Principle, Beginners, Non-duality, Buddha Nature, Manjushri, Duality,...
Jan 31 2004
Berkeley Zen Center

November 15th, 2003, Serial No. 01367, Side B

First Principle, Separation, Monastic Practice, Aspects of Practice, Bowing, Birth-...
Nov 15 2003

April 17th, 2003, Serial No. 00297

Teacher-and-Student, Transmission, Mundane Life, First Principle, Lineage, Sixth...
Apr 17 2003

One-day Sitting Lecture

Serial: SF-01018

Lotus Sutra (Heart Sutra), seals our mind with Buddha's mind, basics of the middle way are covered (in the Sutra of Innumerable Meanings), power of joy and compassion, devotion...

Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Nirvana, Four Noble...
May 11 2002
Green Gulch

Camaldolese Creativity

Serial: NC-01072

Community Retreat Spring 2002

OSB Cam, Renaissance, Ambrose Traversari, Marsilio Ficino, Neoplatonism, Platonic Academy (Florence...
Apr 2002
3 of 5 (#4 not recorded)
New Camaldoli Hermitage

Totally Grounded

Serial: BZ-00106A

Sesshin Day 4

First Principle, Samadhi, Hate, Teacher-and-Student, Patience, Anger, Karma, Demons...
Jun 23 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Treating Everything as a Subject from Eihei Shingi

Serial: BZ-00104A

Sesshin Day 1

Eihei Shingi, Tenzo, Bell, Subject-and-Object, Duality, First Principle, Non-duality...
Jun 20 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

September 19th, 1999, Serial No. 04333

Lotus Sutra, Nirvana, Ordinary Mind, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, First Principle...
Sep 19 1999

July 29th, 1999, Serial No. 00922

Four Noble Truths, Ego, causation, Heart Sutra, First Principle, true dharma, Right...
Jul 29 1999

Wednesday Lecture

First Principle, Mindfulness, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Dragons, Suzuki Roshi,...
Jun 30 1999
Green Gulch

Parables: New Testament

Serial: NC-00064

Part of "The Kingdom in Parables: New Testament, Cosmology and Contemporary Poetry"

2. Parables: New Testament

Archival Photo

OSB Cam, First Principle, Mandala, Buddhism, lecture, Diversity
1998
2 of 4
New Camaldoli Hermitage

What Is The Ember You Carry With You?

Serial: SF-00086

One Day Sit

Practice Period, Blue Cliff Record, Non-duality, Fox, Bodhidharma, First Principle,...
Sep 27 1997

Blue Cliff Record: Case #17

Serial: BZ-00807A

Rohatsu Day 6

BCR-17, Obstacles, First Principle, Lay, Evil, Peace, Bodhidharma, Continuous...
Dec 07 1996
Berkeley Zen Center

August Sesshin

First Principle, Zendo, realization, Impermanence, Offering, Instruction, Emotions,...
Aug 12 1996
Green Gulch

Unknown Title

Serial: BZ-00119

Lecture

First Principle, Aspects of Practice, Practice Period, Observe, Teacher-and-Student,...
Jul 02 1996
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

Blue Cliff Record Case #18

Separation, Blue Cliff Record, Transmission, First Principle, true dharma, Dharma...
Jun 29 1996
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #17

Serial: BZ-00806A

Saturday Lecture

BCR-17, First Principle, Bodhidharma, Samadhi, resistance, Concentration, Separation...
Apr 20 1996
Berkeley Zen Center

ial No. 00785

Serial: BZ-00785

Evening lecture 3 found in rohatsu tapes 1996

Big Mind, First Principle, Ego, Evil, Light-and-Darkness, Buddha Nature, Attachment,...
1996

Cultural Differences/Family Practice

Soto Zen, Culture, First Principle, Lay Practice, Demons, Gratitude, Lay, Lineage,...
Jul 22 1995
Berkeley Zen Center

April 26th, 1995, Serial No. 01012

Serial: NC-01012

Monastic Spirituality, Set 6 of 12

OSB Cam, Liberation, zen, Ego, First Principle, Interview
Apr 26 1995

The Idea of a Taoist Sage and Gospel Parallels / Taoist Metaphysical Vision and the Christian Concept of God

Serial: NC-00011

Session 1 & 2 of "Trinity and Tao: Christian and Taoist Spirituality"

Talk 1: The Idea of a Taoist Sage and Gospel Parallels

Talk 2: Taoist...

OSB Cam, First Principle, Enlightenment, Darkness and Light, Breath, Emptiness...
1995
1 of 2
New Camaldoli Hermitage

Christ, the Poets and the Person

Serial: NC-00047

Part of "The Awakening Self: The New Testament and the Poets" retreat.

Archival Photo

OSB Cam, Poetry, First Principle, realization, Buddhism, Emptiness
1995
1 of 4
New Camaldoli Hermitage

Contemplative Prayer

Serial: NC-00927

Contemplative Prayer class

Fasting, Discrimination, First Principle, Intuition, Monastic Practice
Sep 14 1994
2 of 7
New Camaldoli Hermitage

Book of Serenity: Shoyoruko (Book of Equanimity)

Serial: BZ-00238

Class 5 of 5

First Principle, Buddha Nature, War, Ordinary Mind, Duality, Practice Period,...
Jun 02 1994
5
Berkeley Zen Center

Book of Serenity

Serial: BZ-00234

Class 1 of 5

Manjushri, Book of Serenity, Big Mind, First Principle, Observe, Discrimination,...
May 05 1994
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Perfection of Wisdom

Serial: BZ-00231

Class 4 of 5

American, Bodhidharma, Blue Cliff Record, Interdependence, Happiness, Mahayana,...
Apr 14 1994
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan Case #19: Mind is the Way

Serial: BZ-00962A

Lecture

Ordinary Mind, First Principle, Blue Cliff Record, Practice Period, Bodhidharma,...
Apr 02 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #5

Serial: BZ-00647B

Saturday Lecture

BCR-5, First Principle, Duality, Sixth Patriarch, Platform Sutra, Nirvana, Samsara,...
Jan 23 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Communion and Communication

Serial: BZ-00631B

Saturday Lecture

First Principle, Discrimination, Intuition, Duality, Bodhisattva Precepts, Monastic...
Jul 11 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

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