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Heart Sutra Talks

The Heart Sūtra is a popular sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism. In Sanskrit, the title Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya translates as "The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom".

The Sutra famously states, "Form is emptiness (śūnyatā), emptiness is form." It has been called "the most frequently used and recited text in the entire Mahayana Buddhist tradition." The text has been translated into English dozens of times from Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan, as well as other source languages.

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The Ultimate transcends Difference and Unity

Samdhinirmochana Mahayana Sutra Chapter 3, part 1

Samdhinormonchana Sutra (Part VII),
Chapter Three, Afternoon Dharma Talk
Saturday June 14, 2009, P.M.
No Abode

Emptiness, Dharmakaya, Heart Sutra, confusion
Jun 13 2009
Afternoon
No Abode Hermitage

Questions and Answers in Buddhism

Religion, Right Speech, Lotus Sutra, Buddha Mind, Vow, Teacher-and-Student, Heart...
Apr 18 2009

Buddha's Paranirvana: Serial No. 01091

Serial: BZ-01091

Sesshin

Buddha's Birthday, Four Noble Truths, Happiness, Observe, Passions, Instruction...
Feb 14 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Ryokan's Poems - Butterfly Dreams

Serial: BZ-02013

Part 1 of 2, teaching retreat

Discrimination, Anger, Heart Sutra, Nirvana, Enemies, Transmission, Evil, Precepts...
Jan 24 2009
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Beginners and Beginning: Self sufficiency: Serial No. 01084

Beginners, Composure, Light-and-Darkness, New Year, Buddha Ancestors, Instruction,...
Jan 03 2009
Berkeley Zen Center

Dizang's Weakness: Case 20, Book of Serenity; Serial No. 01162

Serial: BZ-01162

Saturday talk

Koan, Dizang, SER-20, Intimacy, Gratitude, Teacher-and-Student, Heart Sutra, Nirvana...
Oct 04 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

The Brain and Enlightenment

Enlightenment, Dependent Origination, Monkey Mind, Peace, Subject-and-Object, Heart...
Aug 02 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Prajna Paramita as Not Abiding 

Non-attachment, Attachment, Heart Sutra, Desire
Jul 26 2008
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

Prajna Paramita as Not Abiding 

Attachment, Heart Sutra
Jul 26 2008
Morning

Embodying the Lotus Sutra 

Lotus Sutra, Buddha Nature, Manjushri, Heart Sutra, Book of Serenity
Apr 24 2008
The Yoga Room

Dogen: Enlightenment and Delusion

Serial: BZ-01121

Saturday Lecture

Silent Illumination, Discrimination, Intuition, Duality, Teacher-and-Student, Non-...
Mar 22 2008
Berkeley Zen Center

Preparing for the New Year: Zazen, Vows, Resolutions (Kid Zendo)

Serial: BZ-01106

Saturday Lecture

New Year, Happiness, Vow, Don't Know Mind, Heart Sutra, Darkness-and-Light,...
Dec 15 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Introduction to Zen

Serial: BZ-01276

Saturday Lecture

Monastic Practice, Practice Period, Nirvana, Lay Practice, Soto Zen, Buddha Nature,...
Jul 17 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Reading from “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind”: Control

Serial: BZ-00984

Saturday Lecture

Composure, Concentration, Buddha Nature, Right Effort, Impermanence, Mundane Life,...
Jul 07 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

With No Path, Go Dark

Serial: BZ-01442

Sesshin Day 3

Doubt, Evil, Practice Period, Gaining Mind, Bowing, Heart Sutra, Bell, Lay, Humility...
Jun 22 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Zen Bridges: Mindfulness and Therapy

Serial: RB-01656M

Seminar_Zen_and_Psychotherapy

Consciousness, Practice, Heart Sutra
Jun 2007
Rastenberg

Practicing in the Body

Serial: BZ-01437D

Saturday Lecture

Manjushri, Heart Sutra, Practice Period, Posture, Don't Know Mind, Bowing, Birth...
May 26 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Faith in Buddhism: Ignition

Serial: BZ-01054A

Class 2 of 5

Manjushri, Heart Sutra, Buddha Nature, Cultivation, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Ordinary...
May 24 2007
2
Berkeley Zen Center

May 6th, 2007, Serial No. 00168

Zazen Mind, Letting Go, Big Mind, Faith, Heart Sutra
May 06 2007

The Light of Buddha's Wisdom - Precepts of Compassion

Buddha sheds the light of wisdom on the true nature of suffering, liberation, and the human mind, on the teachings of compassion, moral causation, and the whole phenomenal universe. This retreat...

Japan, Separation, Suzuki Roshi, Duality, Heart Sutra
May 05 2007
Part 4
Mount Madonna Center

Faith in Mind

Serial: BZ-01433

Saturday Lecture

Buddha Mind, Doubt, Buddha Nature, Attachment, Ordinary Mind, Buddha Ancestors,...
Apr 28 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

Intelligence of the Natural World

Serial: SF-00941

Sesshin Lecture: frog chorus; silence and activity; pain and fear of pain; Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma, Sesshin, Prajna Paramita, Silence, Buddha Ancestors, Composure, Buddha...
Apr 07 2007
Green Gulch Farm

Sesshin Practices

Serial: SF-00992

Sesshin Lecture: ordinary mind is the Tao; practice of confession; guilt/shame; Self-Receiving and -Employing Samadhi

Sesshin, Zhaozhou, Ordinary Mind, Suzuki Roshi, Right Effort, Posture, Buddha Nature...
Apr 03 2007
Green Gulch Farm

Zazen Mind

Serial: TL-00166

ADZG Monday Night,
Dharma Talk

Posture, Heart Sutra, Big Mind, Zazen Mind, Ego
Mar 12 2007
Cenacle Chicago

The Bodhisattva Grandmother

Serial: SF-00942

Deshan and the old woman; the distortions of sexism, racism, others; the bodhisattva grandmother; devotion to zazen; bringing attention and support to the natural states/bodily...

Deshan, Family Practice, Dragons, Offering, Delusion, Heart Sutra, Mindfulness, Vow,...
Feb 17 2007
Green Gulch Farm

Zendo Forms

Serial: BZ-01407

Serving, Mokugyo, Chanting, Rohatsu Day 7

Meal Serving, Chanting, Mokugyo, Instruction, Doanryo, New Year, Bowing, Chanting,...
Dec 03 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

The Gift of Nothing

Serial: SF-00929

Sunday Lecture Children's Lecture: one who is not busy, one reality; the gift of nothing; sesshin, from Suzuki Roshi; our mind is the same as Buddha's; all things are...

Buddha's Enlightenment, Sesshin, Koan, Daowu, Keizan, Suzuki Roshi, Nirvana...
Dec 03 2006
Green Gulch Farm

Where Am I? Where am I Headed?

Serial: BZ-01397

Saturday Lecture 

Subject-and-Object, Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Liberation, Enthusiasm, Ordinary...
Nov 11 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Sojun Gives Doan and Kokyo Training: Chanting and Bells

Serial: BZ-01046

Class

Bell, Heart Sutra, Chanting, Harmonizing, Don't Know Mind, Sangha, Bowing,...
Oct 28 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Realizing the Precepts in Practice

Serial: BZ-01395

Saturday Lecture

Precepts, Vow, Practice Period, Observe, Repentance, Buddha Ancestors,...
Oct 28 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Right Speech

Serial: SF-00037

The eight-fold path and its relationship to the precepts.

Ummon, Koan, Right Speech, Suzuki Roshi, Conversation, Heart Sutra, Zazen, Buddha...
Sep 16 2006

The Paramita of Forebearance

Serial: BZ-01176B

Saturday Lecture

Heart Sutra, Anger, Forgiveness, Precepts, Practice Period, Patience, Hate, Karma,...
Jul 29 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,...
Jun 15 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record #90: Her Koan — Chih Men’s Body of Wisdom

Serial: BZ-01238

Saturday Lecture

Blue Cliff Record, Heart Sutra, Daily Life, Funeral, Practice Period, Commitment,...
Jun 05 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra: 18 Emptinesses; Continuous Existence

Serial: BZ-01042A

Class 3 of 5

Karma, Forgiveness, Ego, Nirvana, Daily Life, Emotions, Don't Know Mind, Heart...
May 25 2006
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra: Dealing with a Problematic Public Library Patron

Serial: BZ-01236D

Saturday Lecture

Heart Sutra, Practice Period, Anger, Practice Position, Interview, Lay Practice, Soto...
May 20 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra: Heart Sutra

Serial: BZ-01040A

Class 1 of 5

Heart Sutra, Big Mind, Mahayana, Daily Life, Manjushri, Birth-and-Death, Four...
May 11 2006
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra in Everyday Life, from Shuso, Gentle Rain, Dharma Blossom

Serial: BZ-01234

Monday morning Talk

Practice Period, Ordinary Mind, Anger, Heart Sutra, Practice Position, Commitment,...
May 08 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra

Serial: BZ-01232

Saturday Lecture

Heart Sutra, Duality, Samadhi, Attachment, Oneness, Samsara, Nirvana, Non-duality,...
May 06 2006
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

Three Doors of Liberation

Serial: BZ-01228

Emptiness, Signlessness, Aimlessness, One-Day Sitting

Liberation, Emptiness, Discrimination, Non-discrimination, Oneness, Big Mind, Birth-...
Apr 09 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Beyond Illusions: The Essence of Love

War, Separation, Passions, Happiness, Heart Sutra
Mar 26 2006

Unconditional Love

Serial: RA-00012

Sunday talk

 

War, Love, Compassion, Separation, Happiness, Heart Sutra, Evil
Mar 26 2006
Green Gulch Farm

Shobogenzo: Practice and Enlightenment Go Together

Serial: BZ-01221

One Day Sitting

Gaining Mind, Mindfulness, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Separation, Non-duality,...
Mar 11 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, Impermanence, Suzuki Roshi, Gratitude, Heart Sutra, Ceremony,...
Mar 11 2006
City Center

What Are We Doing Here?

Serial: BZ-01220

History of Berkeley Zen Center Pt. I, Saturday Lecture

Dogen, Lay Practice, Priest, Lay, Heart Sutra, Dharma Transmission, Mill Valley, Four...
Mar 04 2006
1
Berkeley Zen Center

March 4th, 2006, Serial No. 01454

Lay Practice, Priest, Lay, Heart Sutra, Dharma Transmission, Mill Valley, Four Noble...
Mar 04 2006

Buddha's Paranirvana

Serial: BZ-01216B

Birth, Death, Nirvana, Sesshin Day 1

Parinirvana, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Birth-and-Death, Nirvana, Big Mind, Four Noble...
Feb 18 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Encouragement for Upcoming Sesshin

Serial: BZ-01215

Thoughts on his early days, Saturday Lecture

Sesshin, Sojun Mel Weitsman, Pure Existence, Karma, Monastic Practice, Soto Zen,...
Feb 11 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Tranquility and Insight in Zen

Practice Period, Silence, Passions, Heart Sutra, Commitment
Jan 07 2006

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