Koan Talks

A kōan ( KOH-a(h)n; Japanese: 公案; Chinese: 公案; pinyin: gōng'àn [kʊ́ŋ ân]; Korean: 화두; Vietnamese: công án) is a story, dialogue, question, or statement from Chinese Chan Buddhist lore, supplemented with commentaries, that is used in Zen Buddhist practice in different ways. The main goal of kōan practice in Zen is to achieve kenshō (Chinese: jianxing 見性), to see or observe one's buddha-nature.

Extended study of kōan literature as well as meditation (zazen) on a kōan is a major feature of modern Rinzai Zen. They are also studied in the Sōtō school of Zen to a lesser extent. In Chinese Chan and Korean Seon Buddhism, meditating on a huatou, a key phrase of a kōan, is also a major Zen meditation method.

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1984.02.01-serial.00288

Practice Period, Non-discrimination, Aspects of Practice, Thich Nhat Hanh, Koan...
Feb 01 1984

Camaldolese History

Serial: NC-00515

Camaldolese History Class. Conference #1 (Dec 7, 1983) & Conference #2 (Dec 14, 1983)

OSB Cam, War, Study Period, Politics, Lineage, Koan
Dec 07 1983
1 of 6
New Camaldoli Hermitage

April 14th, 1983, Serial No. 00398

Serial: NC-00398

Monastic Theology Series Set 1 of 3

Thoroughness, Patience, realization, Pain, Koan
Apr 14 1983

Blue Cliff Record: Case #43

Serial: BZ-00006B

How Can We Avoid Heat and Cold?, Saturday Lecture

BCR-43

Koan, resistance, Non-violence, Fasting, Anger, Dana, Daily Life, Building, training...
Mar 05 1983
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #35 -- Seijo's Soul Separated

Serial: BZ-00046B

Unifying Body, Mind and the Way, Saturday Lecture

MM-35

 

Koan, Birth-and-Death, War, Peace, Dragons, Offering, Instruction, Doubt, Emotions,...
Jan 22 1983
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #35

Serial: BZ-00034A

Manjushri's "3's" and "3's"; Nondiscrimination, Saturday Lecture

BCR-35

 

Non-discrimination, Koan, Manjushri, Dragons, Conversation, Sixth Patriarch, Monastic...
Jul 03 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #19

Serial: BZ-00036A

"Nansen's Everyday Mind in the Way", Saturday Lecture

MM-19

 

Nansen, Absolute-and-Relative, Koan, Ordinary Mind, Non-violence, confusion,...
Jun 26 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #17

Serial: BZ-00029B

"Sitting Long and Getting Tired", Sesshin Day 5

BCR-17

 

Composure, Zazen, Koan, First Principle, Ordinary Mind, Samadhi, Composure,...
May 23 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

Effort: The Fourth Paramita (Virya)

Serial: BZ-00009A

Blue Cliff Record: Case #5(?) "Beating the Drum", Saturday Lecture

 

Virya, Koan, Buddha Mind, Patience, Concentration, Chanting, Monastic Practice,...
Apr 24 1982
Berkeley Zen Center

October 21st, 1981, Serial No. 00690

Serial: NC-00690

Monastic Spirituality Set 5 of 12

Instruction, Transmission, Letting Go, Demons, Koan
Oct 21 1981

June 11th, 1981, Serial No. 00697

Serial: NC-00697

Monastic Spirituality Set 4 of 12

Commitment, Mahayana, First Principle, Koan, Enlightenment
Jun 11 1981

April 24th, 1981, Serial No. 00874

Serial: NC-00874

Monastic Spirituality Set 3 of 12

OSB Cam, Commitment, Vow, Ceremony, zen, Koan
Apr 24 1981

February 18th, 1981, Serial No. 00795

Serial: NC-00795

Monastic Spirituality Set 2 of 12

OSB Cam, Koan, Transmission, Liberation, zen, Hate
Feb 18 1981

Knowledge of God & Trinity

Transmission, Emptiness, Buddhism, Lineage, Koan
Feb 1981
4 of 14

Zen Moments: Breathing and Being

Breath, Bodhidharma, Truth, causation, Koan
May 13 1972

Zen and Tantra: Deep Relationships

Delusion, Truth, Koan, Mahayana, Community
May 10 1972

Echoes of Practice, Voices of Zen

Bodhidharma, Breath, Attachment, Mahayana, Koan
May 09 1972

Sun-Faced Buddha, Moon-Faced Buddha

Serial: SR-00009

Sunday, March 9, 1969
Sokoji, San Francisco

Koan story of sun-faced buddha, moon-faced buddha. Practicing while well or while sick. Accepting what we don't like....

Baso, Koan, Blue Cliff Record, Attachment, Composure, Discrimination, difficulty,...
Mar 09 1969
Sokoji

Bring Me The Rhinoceros Fan

Serial: SF-05086

 ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #21, by Shundo David Haye ===== 

For whatever reason, there are few talks existing from the summer of 1968. At...

Koan, Faith, Freedom
Jul 28 1968
Tassajara

Because I Was Not Well

Serial: SF-05143A

SR023 Track 1 Suzuki Roshi's afternoon sesshin 4-23-68 copied [there are also photographs of hand-written notes on missing portions of Q&A - per tape operator's...

Sesshin, Koan, Ordinary Mind, everyday mind, Faith, Composure, Doubt, Religion...
Apr 23 1968
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Tassajara

Unknown Date, Serial 00834

Serial: NC-00834

1980s

OSB Cam, War, Koan, Emotions, Emptiness
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Unknown Date, Serial 00212, Side B

Serial: NC-00212B

Archival Photo

Buddha, Koan, Buddhism, Lotus Sutra
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