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Title	Speaker	Date
Moment By Moment Serial: BZ-02198 The Most Important Thing, One-Day Sitting Suzuki Roshi, Bodhisattva, Balance, Posture, Perfect Wisdom, Daily Life, Don't...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Aug 14 2011 Berkeley Zen Center
Breathing Mindfulness, Zazen Mind, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Instruction, Concentration...	Ron Nestor	Jul 23 2011
Embracing the Mahayana: Do You Want to be an Artist? Vasubandhu, Karmic Consciousness, Interview, Heart Sutra, Lotus Sutra	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jul 16 2011 Morning No Abode Hermitage
Dharma Transmission Serial: BZ-02188 Teacher/Disciple Relationship, Sesshin Day 4 Lineage, Transmission, Dogen, Transmission, Branching Streams, Buddha Ancestors,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 18 2011 Berkeley Zen Center
Zen Stories Intimacy, Koan, Interview, difficulty	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Apr 28 2011 The Yoga Room
April 28th, 2011, Serial No. 03843 Intimacy, Koan, Interview	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Apr 28 2011
The Dharma and Non-violent Action in Burma Anger, Interview, War, Peace, Emotions, Evil, Non-violence, American	Venerable Upinya Zawta	Apr 23 2011
Japan Catastrophe Serial: BZ-02165 Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear Fallout, One-Day Sitting Karma, Japan, Current Events, Karma, Repentance, Vow, Renewal, Composure, Interview,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 19 2011 Berkeley Zen Center
Buddha's Parinirvana Serial: BZ-02157 Ordinary Life is the Way, Sesshin Day 1, part 1 of 4 Sense of separation, Neither good nor bad Nirvana, Separation, Greed, Birth-and-Death, Interview, Culture, Emotions, Karma, Ego...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 19 2011 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Resuming Big Mind - The Purpose of Sesshin Serial: BZ-02143 Rohatsu Day 1 Karma, Suzuki Roshi, Monkey Mind, Big Mind, Concentration, Posture, Interview, Non-...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 05 2010 Berkeley Zen Center
Zenki Birth and Death Serial: BZ-02141 Time-being, Saturday Lecture Zenki, Rebecca Mayeno, Priest, Koun Ejô, Birth-and-Death, Global Warming, Continuous...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 27 2010 Berkeley Zen Center
My Way As A Teacher Serial: BZ-02129 Berkeley Zen Center - A garden that is cultivated, Saturday Lecture Eihei Shingi, Way-Seeking Mind, Teacher-and-Student, Lotus Sutra, Bell, Dragons,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 02 2010 Berkeley Zen Center
Hokyo Zammai III Serial: BZ-02056 100 Circles, Sesshin Day 2, class 3 of 4 Issan, Zazen, Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Five Ranks, Continuous Practice, Discrimination,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 07 2009 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Zazen is the true reference point Serial: BZ-02047 Put your behind on the cushion, Saturday Lecture Drama of life, Thoughts = dream world Zazen, Ordinary Mind, Instruction, Precepts, Interview, confusion, Duality, Posture,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 27 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
The Swastika as Mandala Serial: BZ-02046 Sesshin Day 5 Politics, Evil, Happiness, Mandala, Interview, Transmission, Hate, Offering, Religion...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 21 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Brown Rice is Just Right Serial: BZ-02043 Cultivating the Empty Field, Sesshin Day 2 Suzuki Roshi, Ordinary Mind, Silent Illumination, Birth-and-Death, Religion, American...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 18 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Case #7 - Wash Your Bowl Serial: BZ-02027 Saturday Lecture BCR-7, Family Practice, Transmission, Bell, Daily Life, Building, Emotions,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 02 2009 Berkeley Zen Center
Platform Sutra of 6th Ancestor Hui Neng Serial: BZ-02004 Rohatsu Day 1 Hui Neng, Buddha Nature, Buddha Ancestors, Platform Sutra, Don't Know Mind,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 07 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Transformative Energy Through Meditation Intuition, Desire, Interview, Emotions	Edward Brown	Sep 27 2008
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
Ordinary Mind is the Way Serial: BZ-01149 Saturday lecture Ordinary Mind, Instruction, Lotus Sutra, Teacher-and-Student, Passions, Daily Life,...	Ron Nestor	Jul 26 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Shuso Talk: Way Seeking Mind Part II Serial: BZ-01132 First Friday talk Karma, Forgiveness, Interview, Hindrances, Family Practice, Light-and-Darkness, Anger...	Gerry Oliva	May 16 2008 Berkeley Zen Center
Growing Old with Zen Practice Serial: BZ-00987 Saturday Lecture Culture, Interview, Hate, War	Meghan Collins	Jul 28 2007 Berkeley Zen Center
Aspects of Practice Serial: BZ-01392 Fall 2006, Saturday Lecture Practice Position, Daily Life, Offering, Interview, Big Mind, Practice Period, Vow,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 14 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Sojun and Doug Greiner’s Trip to Bhutan Serial: BZ-01390 Monday Morning Demons, Culture, Interview, Chanting, Happiness, Religion, American, Priest, Lay...	Sojun Mel Weitsman and Doug Greiner	Oct 02 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
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
Worldly Life and Pure Practice Serial: BZ-01237 Kid Zendo: Circles, Saturday Lecture Daily Life, Practice, Birth-and-Death, Precepts, Daily Life, Interview, Greed, Doubt...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 27 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
How Sojun Gives Zazen Instruction Serial: BZ-01045 Class Posture, Instruction, Observe, Daily Life, Interview, Bowing, Enemies	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 20 2006 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...	Karen Sundheim	May 20 2006 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,...	Karen Sundheim	May 08 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Six "Wrong" Ways of Practice Serial: BZ-01231 Saturday Lecture Practice, Obstacles, Family Practice, Instruction, Interview, Nirvana, Renunciation,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Apr 29 2006 Berkeley Zen Center
Transfiguration: Pathway to Divine Light Renewal, Interview, Building	Fr. Martin Shannon	2006 Mount Saviour Monastery
“Calmness of Mind” from Not Always So Serial: BZ-01039A Class 4 of 4 Anger, Attachment, American, Ego, Interview, Chanting, Concentration, Bell, Offering...	Doug Greiner	Nov 17 2005 4 Berkeley Zen Center
Settling Into Monastic Practice Together Practice Period, Shingi, Monastic Practice, Sangha, Global Warming, Buddha Ancestors...	Ryushin Paul Haller	Oct 02 2005 Tassajara
Genjokoan Serial: BZ-01332 Sesshin Day 4 Genjokoan, Buddha Nature, Birth-and-Death, Priest, Bodhidharma, Transmission,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 25 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Zen Of Business Administration Serial: SF-00036 Sunday Talk. Life at Green Gulch in the 1970s; giving, fearlessness; improv; no mistakes; parenting. Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Interview, Suzuki Roshi, Mill Valley, Daily Life, Koan...	Marc Lesser	Mar 20 2005 Green Gulch Farm
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,...	Fu Schroeder	Dec 19 2004 Green Gulch Farm
Aspects of Practice: Female Chan Ancestors Serial: BZ-01030A Class 4 of 4 Practice Period, Dragons, Transmission, Fox, Buddha Ancestors, Lineage, Interview,...	Baika Pratt	Nov 18 2004 4 Berkeley Zen Center
Diamond Sutra: How Should We Conduct Ourselves Serial: BZ-00562 Class 1 of 4 Attachment, Heart Sutra, Liberation, Culture, American, Patience, Interview, Mahayana...	Peter Overton	Sep 23 2004 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Parental Mind Serial: BZ-01278 Saturday Lecture Teacher-and-Student, Happiness, Lotus Sutra, Composure, Subject-and-Object, Practice...	Myoan Grace Schireson	Jul 31 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
One-Day Sitting Lecture Serial: SF-01022 This human body is the entire world in the ten directions. Can you be stopped? Bodhicitta. Compassion. Thinking. Hatred. Not indulging in habitual thoughts of hatred. Say no. "... Birth-and-Death, Bodhisattva Precepts, Manjushri, Hate, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi,...	Fu Schroeder	Mar 20 2004 Green Gulch Farm
Trusting the Journey Within Chanting, Liberation, Heart Sutra, Peace, Interview	Edward Brown	Feb 08 2004
The Precept of Not Killing Serial: BZ-01383 Saturday Lecture Buddha Nature, Karma, Precepts, Nirvana Sutra, Doubt, War, Dependent Origination,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 07 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
October 16th, 2003, Serial No. 00287, Side A Heart Sutra, Concentration, Culture, Politics, Interview, Chanting, Conversation,...		Oct 16 2003
Light in Buddhism: Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi Serial: BZ-00543 Class 5 of 7 Karma, Addiction, Anger, War, Demons, Intuition, Equanimity, Attachment, Interview,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 30 2003 5 Chapel Hill Zen Center
Light in Buddhism: Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi Serial: BZ-00545 Class 2 of 7 Attachment, Non-attachment, Composure, Interview, Happiness, Discrimination, Emotions...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 29 2003 2 Chapel Hill Zen Center
Light in Buddhism: Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi Serial: BZ-00556 Class 1 of 7 Silent Illumination, Karma, Big Mind, Concentration, Instruction, Demons, Composure,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 29 2003 1 Chapel Hill Zen Center
Buddhism and War Serial: BZ-00133B The Six Realms and What Bodhisattvas Do in Each One, Saturday Lecture Buddhism, War, Bodhisattva, Six Realms, War, Demons, Greed, Peace, Current Events,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 22 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Basic Buddhism: The Life of Buddha Serial: BZ-00466 Class 1 of 4 Four Noble Truths, Religion, Fasting, Renunciation, Demons, Interview, Chanting,...	David Weinberg and Ann Kennedy	Feb 20 2003 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Joshu's "Go Wash Your Bowls" Serial: BZ-00178A One-Day Sitting Joshu, Continuous Practice, Pure Existence, New Year, Interview, Daily Life, Emotions...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 11 2003 Berkeley Zen Center

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