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Title	Speaker	Date
Reflections on My Life Serial: BZ-01335 76th Birthday, Saturday Lecture Sojun Mel Weitsman, Priest, Lay Practice, Priest-and-Lay, Lay, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 08 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Present Moment Serial: BZ-01334 Saturday Lecture Concentration, Gratitude, Book of Serenity, Practice Period, Vow, Lay, Ordination,...	Susan Moon	Jul 02 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Zazen Tips Serial: BZ-01330 Dealing with Pain and Sitting in a Chair, Sesshin Day 2 Zazen, Pain, Posture, Discrimination, Don't Know Mind, Non-discrimination,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 23 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Lay Ordination Serial: BZ-01327 Buddha's Robe, Saturday Lecture Rakusu, Lay Ordination, Precepts, Ordination, Lineage, Buddha Nature, Lay, Confession...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 11 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Priest and Lay Practice Serial: BZ-01325 Saturday Lecture Practice, Priest-and-Lay, Priest, Lay, Ordination, Lay Practice, Dharma Transmission...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 28 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Presence in Everyday Acts Dragons, Global Warming, Lay, Don't Know Mind	Edward Brown	May 16 2005
Mindful Living: Zen in Action Dragons, Global Warming, Lay, Don't Know Mind	Edward Brown	May 16 2005
Mindful Living Through Genuine Engagement Dragons, Global Warming, Lay, Don't Know Mind	Edward Brown	May 16 2005
Perceptions of Understanding: The Five Skandas Silence, Bodhidharma, Lay, Practice Period, Bowing, Oneness, Priest, Lay Practice,...	Ross Blum	Apr 23 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
On Race Serial: BZ-00601 Sesshin Day 7 Diversity, Culture, Lay, Discrimination, Hate, Soto Zen, Silence, confusion, Bell,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 29 2005 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
Heart Sutra: Practicing Nonattainment Serial: BZ-01316C Saturday Lecture Transmission, Lay Practice, Priest, Politics, Lay, Hindrances, Heart Sutra,...	Raul Moncayo	Mar 26 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Fukanzazengi: A Positive Mental Attitude Serial: BZ-01314B Saturday Lecture Soto Zen, Nirvana Sutra, Buddha Nature, Concentration, Lay, Attachment, Hindrances...	Ron Nestor	Mar 19 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Way Seeking Mind Pt. 4 Serial: BZ-00588 Lecture, second half of part 4 Sojun Mel Weitsman, Way-Seeking Mind, Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Lay Practice...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 15 2005 Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
March 15th, 2005, Serial No. 01572 Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Lay Practice, Monastic Practice, Doubt, Ordination...		Mar 15 2005
March 14th, 2005, Serial No. 01570 Monastic Practice, Priest, Building, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Soto Zen,...		Mar 14 2005
Way Seeking Mind Serial: SF-00044 The route to becoming a zen monk; growing up Jewish and hanging out with the beats; meeting Suzuki Roshi. Monastic Practice, Japan, Way-Seeking Mind, Suzuki Roshi, Monastic Practice, Priest,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 13 2005 2 Tassajara
Way Seeking Mind Pt. 2 Serial: BZ-00590 Lecture Sojun Mel Weitsman, Way-Seeking Mind, Monastic Practice, Priest, Fundraising,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 13 2005
Ryokan and the Virtues of a Simple Life Serial: BZ-01301C Saturday Lecture Dharma Transmission, Lay, Priest-and-Lay, Soto Zen, Transmission, Gratitude, Practice...	Ross Blum	Jan 15 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Lotus Sutra Class Serial: SF-03484 Dining Room Class Dragons, Lotus Sutra, Manjushri, Mahayana, Emptiness, Hindrances, Diversity,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 27 2004 Tassajara
Not Holding on to the Stream: Platform Sutra Serial: BZ-01290B One Day Sitting Silence, Silent Illumination, Emotions, Platform Sutra, Soto Zen, Subject-and-Object...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Nov 20 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Sesshin Lecture Serial: SF-03548 Second Sesshin, Zendo Lecture Lotus Sutra, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Emotions, Emptiness, Freedom, Bowing,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 16 2004 Tassajara
Aspects of Practice: Dogen Serial: BZ-01029A Class 3 of 4 Bodhisattva Ceremony, Lay Practice, Lay, Buddha Ancestors, Transmission, Rinzai,...	Denkei Raul Moncayo	Nov 11 2004 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Women Ancestors Serial: BZ-01287 Saturday Lecture Dana, Soto Zen, Practice Period, Lay, Forgiveness, Rinzai, Enemies, Lineage	Laurie Senauke	Oct 30 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Diamond Sutra: No Beings to Save, No Attributes Serial: BZ-00565 Class 4 of 4 Daily Life, Lay, Patience, Enemies, Lineage, Passions, Discrimination, Evil, Nirvana...	Peter Overton and Laurie Senauke	Oct 14 2004 4 Berkeley Zen Center
History of Soto Zen: First Dharma Heritage Ceremony Serial: BZ-01283C Zuisse Ceremony and Dharma Transmission, Saturday Lecture Zuisse, Soto Zen, Dharma Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Religion,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 09 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
September 11th, 2004, Serial No. 00150 Ordinary Mind, Peace, Lay, Ego		Sep 11 2004
Lay Ordination Serial: BZ-01266 Saturday Lecture Zaike Tokudo, Three Refuges, Precepts, Priest, Big Mind, Ordination, Lay Practice,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 12 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Guidelines for Studying the Way: Dogen’s Gakudo Yojin-Shu Serial: BZ-01024A Class 3 of 5 Teacher-and-Student, Greed, Bodhidharma, Chanting, Soto Zen, Instruction, Religion,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 27 2004 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Enlightenment as a Touchstone of Practice Serial: BZ-01262 Saturday Lecture Bowing, Practice Position, Lay, Bell, Posture, Attachment, Manjushri, Oneness...	Ross Blum	May 01 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Choosing Reality: A Zen Perspective Serial: RB-03760 Seminar_What_Is_Reality? Practice, Time, Lay	Richard Baker	May 2004 Johanneshof
As Large as Life: Zen Koans for Everyday Practice; Mumonkan Case #14 Nanchuan Kills the Cat Serial: BZ-01021B Class 4 of 4 Blue Cliff Record, Precepts, Commitment, Birth-and-Death, Book of Serenity, Manjushri...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Mar 15 2004 4 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen’s Eihei Shingi: Pure Standards for the Zen Community Serial: BZ-00578 Class 1 of 5 Monastic Practice, Lay Practice, Cultivation, Dragons, Don't Know Mind,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 29 2004 1 Chapel Hill Zen Center
Dogen’s Eihei Shingi: Pure Standards for the Zen Community Serial: BZ-00581 Class 4 of 5 Instruction, Monastic Practice, Lay Practice, Offering, Lay, Posture, Right Effort,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 29 2004 4 Chapel Hill Zen Center
Dogen’s Eihei Shingi: Pure Standards for the Zen Community Serial: BZ-00582 Class 5 of 5 Funeral, Birth-and-Death, Lay, Buddha Ancestors, Karma, Offering, Sixth Patriarch,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 29 2004 5 Chapel Hill Zen Center
Trip to Japan: Sotoshu Formal Initiation Serial: BZ-01378 Saturday Lecture Soto Zen, Priest-and-Lay, Right Effort, New Year, American, Peace, Priest, Lay...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jan 03 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Eihei Shingi: The Kanin Serial: BZ-01373 Rohatsu Day 4 Eihei Shingi, Buddha's Birthday, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, New Year, Lay...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 04 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Fukanzazengi Serial: BZ-01015A Class 2 of 4 Lay, Posture, Dharma Transmission, Lineage, Observe, Transmission, Culture,...	Ross Blum	Nov 06 2003 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Trip to Japan (last two weeks of Oct. 2003) Serial: BZ-01365 The Necessity of both Oneness and Diversity, Saturday Lecture Oneness, Japan, Fox, Priest, Lay, Soto Zen, Ordination, Diversity, Precepts, Lay...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 01 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
August 23rd, 2003, Serial No. 00160 Karmic Consciousness, Shobogenzo, Lay Ordination, Lay, Hongzhi		Aug 23 2003
Renunciation Serial: BZ-01350 One-Day Sitting Renunciation, Lotus Sutra, Renunciation, Silent Illumination, Posture, Concentration...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 20 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
June 14th, 2003, Serial No. 00136 Lay, Rinzai, Avalokiteshvara, Blue Cliff Record, Priest		Jun 14 2003
Seven Factors of Enlightenment: Energy, Rapture, Tranquility Serial: BZ-00292 Class 4 of 5 Happiness, Gaining Mind, Karma, Concentration, Precepts, Posture, Lay, Nirvana,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 05 2003 4 Berkeley Zen Center
Lay Ordination, Lay Recognition, Precepts Serial: BZ-00137 Saturday Lecture Precepts, Lay Ordination, Buddha Nature, Priest, Dharma Transmission, Bodhisattva...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 31 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
The Spirit of Practice Period Serial: BZ-01527B Saturday Lecture Practice Period, Practice Period, Enemies, Lay, Commitment, Silence, Continuous...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 03 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Introduction to Zen: 6th Ancestor and Five Schools of Zen Serial: BZ-00297 Class 2 of 4 Teacher-and-Student, Transmission, Mundane Life, First Principle, Lineage, Sixth...	Ross Blum and Laurie Senauke	Apr 17 2003 2 Berkeley Zen Center
World Peace Serial: BZ-00133A Anti-Iraq War/Peace March Talk, One-Day Sitting Peace, War, Current Events, Forgiveness, War, Peace, Religion, Karma, Lay, Ego...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 16 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Enneagram and Meditation: Nine Defensive Styles of Meditation Serial: BZ-00464 Class 3 of 4 Emotions, Anger, Equanimity, Separation, Don't Know Mind, Ego, Passions, Buddha...	Santikaro Bhikku	Mar 01 2003 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Hymn of Prajna Paramita: Practicing Peace Serial: BZ-00172A Lecture, Closing Aspects of Practice Don't Know Mind, Peace, War, Enemies, confusion, American, Lay	Rebecca Mayeno	Nov 23 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Genjokoan: Everyday Practice Serial: BZ-00171B Lecture Daily Life, Lay, Lay Practice, Conversation, Lotus Sutra, Instruction, Ego, Practice...	Mary Mocine	Nov 16 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Consciousness in Buddhist Practice Serial: BZ-00171A Lecture Big Mind, Interdependence, Subject-and-Object, Anger, Karma, Lay, Heart Sutra,...	Raul Moncayo	Nov 09 2002 Berkeley Zen Center

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