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Practicing in The World: First Pure Precept, Ceasing From Evil

Serial: BZ-01226A

Saturday Lecture

Evil, Precepts, Eka, Five Ranks, Karma, Don't Know Mind, Emotions, Bodhidharma,...
Apr 01 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Bob Dylan’s “Dear Landlord”: Mumonkan Case #12

Serial: BZ-01225

Saturday Lecture

Demons, Ordinary Mind, Peace, Offering, Instruction, Intimacy, Obstacles, Liberation...
Mar 25 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Finding Your Own Middle Way: Dharma and the Enneagram

Serial: BZ-01223

Teaching Retreat

Happiness, Passions, Commitment, Emotions, Obstacles, Anger, Addiction, Ego, Samadhi...
Mar 19 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Right Speech

Serial: BZ-01219

Saturday Lecture

Right Speech, Four Noble Truths, Right Effort, Commitment, Liberation, Happiness,...
Feb 25 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Sutra on Breathing

Serial: BZ-01210D

One-Day Sitting

Breath, Happiness, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Birth-and-Death, Mindfulness,...
Jan 14 2006
Berkeley Zen Center

Buddhanature Is Light

Serial: BZ-01206

Komyozo Zammai; Dogen and Keizan, Rohatsu Day 6

Buddha Nature, Dogen, Keizan, Buddha Ancestors, Buddha Nature, Continuous Practice,...
Dec 03 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

Zendo Lecture

Practice, Liberation, Suffering
Jul 31 2005
Tassajara

Natural Liberation

Serial: SF-00916

Sunday Lecture: Buddha only teaches what leads to liberation; methods of liberation: 1 - Hinayana - renunciation; 2 - Mahayana- purification; 3 - Vajrayana - transformation; 4...

Practice, Buddha, Liberation
Jun 26 2005
Green Gulch Farm

Natural Liberation

Serial: SF-00035

Sunday talk.
Buddha teaches liberation; methods of liberation; birth and death is itself nirvana.

Birth-and-Death, Freedom, Dogen, Liberation, Renunciation, Nirvana, Letting Go,...
Jun 25 2005

Reflections on Emptiness

Serial: BZ-01320B

Saturday Lecture

Heart Sutra, Fundraising, Liberation, Karma, Commitment, Samadhi, Nirvana, War,...
Apr 30 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

Wheel of Birth and Death

Serial: SF-00969

Sunday Lecture: Children's stories: earth moving around the sun is one year; "stone soup"; thinking and not thinking; Tibetan wheel of birth and death - six realms, twelve-fold...

Peace, Dependent Origination, Six Realms, Demons, Birth-and-Death, Liberation,...
Apr 10 2005
Green Gulch Farm

Two Paths to the Dharma

Practice Period, Liberation, Bodhidharma, Mahayana, Study Period, Lineage, Letting Go...
Mar 04 2005

Introduction to Buddhism: The Life of the Buddha

Serial: BZ-00566

Class 1 of 4

Four Noble Truths, Concentration, Buddha's Birthday, Precepts, Culture,...
Jan 24 2005
1
Berkeley Zen Center

The Heart Sutra: Gone Beyond

Serial: BZ-01302D

Saturday Lecture

Heart Sutra, Death-and-Dying, Four Noble Truths, confusion, Demons, Non-duality,...
Jan 22 2005
Berkeley Zen Center

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,...
Dec 19 2004
Green Gulch Farm

Four Motivations For Practice

Serial: SF-00928

Sunday Lecture: 1- rare to be born as human; 2 - impermanence of life; 3 - the effect of actions; 4 - suffering of cyclical existence. What is the practice? Letting go of fear...

Liberation, Impermanence, Happiness, Birth-and-Death, Letting Go, Balance, Enthusiasm...
Oct 17 2004
Green Gulch Farm

Diamond Sutra: Chapters 16-24, Streams of Thought

Serial: BZ-00564

Class 3 of 4

Platform Sutra, Right Speech, Attachment, War, Liberation, Heart Sutra, Passions,...
Oct 07 2004
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Diamond Sutra: How Should We Conduct Ourselves

Serial: BZ-00562

Class 1 of 4

Attachment, Heart Sutra, Liberation, Culture, Patience, Interview, Mahayana, Evil,...
Sep 23 2004
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Diamond Sutra: “Save All Beings” Yet No Beings to Save

Serial: BZ-01247

Saturday Lecture

Heart Sutra, Liberation, Perfect Wisdom, Buddha Nature, Attachment, Culture, Daily...
Sep 18 2004
Berkeley Zen Center

Breathing In and Breathing Out

Serial: SF-00934

One-day sitting lecture: Book of Serenity Case 3, Anapanasati Sutta, Six Subtle Dharma Gates

Mindfulness, Dragons, Lotus Sutra, Concentration, Book of Serenity, Bodhidharma,...
Sep 18 2004
Green Gulch Farm

Zen Journey: From Kitchen to Dharma

Dharma Transmission, Daily Life, Balance, Practice Period, Liberation
Aug 2004

July 2004 talk, Serial No. 00101

Doubt, Liberation, Bell, Kinhin
Jul 2004

July 2004 talk, Serial No. 00122

Rumi, Liberation, Posture
Jul 2004

The Awesome Presence of Active Buddhas: A Dogen Fascicle

Serial: BZ-01261

Saturday Lecture

Greed, Continuous Practice, Culture, Bell, Daily Life, Anger, Renunciation,...
Apr 24 2004
Berkeley Zen Center

Spring-Diamond Sutra

Serial: BZ-01256C

Saturday Lecture

Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Sanctuary, Liberation, Enemies, Culture, Instruction...
Mar 20 2004
Berkeley Zen Center

Digging Deep: Getting to the Bottom of the Soup Pot

Serial: BZ-01250

Getting to the Bottom of Ourselves, Sesshin Day 3

Buddha Nature, Happiness, Dragons, confusion, Bowing, Liberation, Discrimination,...
Feb 16 2004
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #29

Serial: BZ-01249

It Will Be Gone With the Others, Sesshin Day 2

BCR-29, Birth-and-Death, Silence, Five Ranks, Liberation, Vow, Buddha Nature,...
Feb 15 2004
Berkeley Zen Center

Trusting the Journey Within

Chanting, Liberation, Heart Sutra, Peace, Interview
Feb 08 2004

January Class

Mindfulness, Posture, Instruction, Duality, Four Noble Truths, Four Foundations of...
Jan 13 2004
Green Gulch Farm

The Power of Ten

Serial: SF-00985

The silence of 'don't know'; outer space Vimalakirti Sutra; radiant vision of alternate universes. Motivation for literary inventiveness - world is not only what we think;...

Vimalakirti, Birth-and-Death, Liberation, Mill Valley, Bell, Lotus Sutra, Heart Sutra...
Dec 14 2003
Green Gulch Farm

December 6th, 2003, Serial No. 00132

Attachment, Liberation, Happiness, Manjushri, Commitment
Dec 06 2003

Fukanzazengi

Serial: BZ-01017A

Class 4 of 4

Dharma Transmission, Dragons, Absolute-and-Relative, Transmission, Discrimination,...
Nov 20 2003
4
Berkeley Zen Center

The Heart Sutra

Serial: BZ-00288

Class 3 of 4

Four Noble Truths, Two Truths, Dependent Origination, Heart Sutra, Bodhisattva Way,...
Oct 09 2003
3
Berkeley Zen Center

What are we Looking For?

Serial: BZ-01356

Saturday Lecture

Silence, Book of Serenity, Ordinary Mind, Don't Know Mind, Teacher-and-Student,...
Sep 06 2003
Berkeley Zen Center

Beginner's Mind, Infinite Enlightenment

Serial: SF-00079

Zendo Lecture

Birth-and-Death, Separation, Letting Go, Intimacy, Liberation, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Aug 10 2003

Not Avoiding Steps and Stages

Serial: BZ-01344

Sesshin Day 2

Four Noble Truths, Liberation, Hindrances, Lineage, Karma, Attachment, Non-duality,...
Jun 19 2003
Berkeley Zen Center

Untitled Talk

Culture, War, Liberation, Practice Period, Buddha Nature, Building, Diversity,...
May 14 2003
Berkeley Zen Center

Light in Buddhism: Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi

Serial: BZ-00544

Class 6 of 7

Buddha Ancestors, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Buddha Nature, Discrimination,...
Mar 30 2003
6
Berkeley Zen Center

Transformative Bliss in Vajrayana Practice

Practice, Emptiness, Liberation
Mar 11 2003

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00181A

Sesshin Day 1

Nirvana, Attachment, Birth-and-Death, Equanimity, Precepts, Liberation, Happiness,...
Feb 15 2003
Berkeley Zen Center

Zen Paths to Authentic Self

Freedom, War, Liberation, Peace
Dec 24 2002

Four Noble Truths/ Kids’ Lecture: “Mean Soup”

Serial: BZ-00170B

Lecture

Greed, Four Noble Truths, Right Effort, Right Speech, Anger, Dragons, Samadhi,...
Nov 02 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Playfulness and Liberation

Karmic Consciousness, Liberation, Consciousness
Oct 08 2002
A
Austin Zen Center

Rivers and Tides: Four Foundations of Mindfulness

Serial: BZ-00211

Lecture

Liberation, Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Mindfulness, Culture, Instruction,...
Sep 21 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Suramgama Sutra

Serial: BZ-00479

Class 3 of 4

Bell, Separation, confusion, Ego, Liberation, Birth-and-Death, Sanctuary, Emotions,...
Sep 05 2002
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Complaining

Serial: BZ-00145A

Women's Sitting

Death-and-Dying, Liberation, Vow, Anger, Hate, Rinzai, Enemies, Soto Zen
Apr 20 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

The Precepts

Serial: BZ-00446

Class 2 of 4

Precepts, Right Speech, Obstacles, Liberation, Heart Sutra, Observe, Passions, Bell,...
Apr 18 2002
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Rawa: Trip to Afghanistan

Serial: BZ-00143A

Lecture

War, Building, Peace, Interview, Liberation, Silence, Bell
Mar 30 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Four Noble Truths: Nirvana

Serial: BZ-00443

Class 3 of 4

Monastic Practice, Nirvana, Mahayana, Liberation, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Six...
Mar 28 2002
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Buddha's Parinirvana

Serial: BZ-00139A

One-Day Sitting

Parinirvana, Nirvana, Birth-and-Death, Obstacles, Precepts, Liberation, Buddha Nature...
Feb 16 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

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