Monastic Practice Talks
Monasticism (from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós) 'solitary, monastic'; from μόνος (mónos) 'alone'), also called monachism or monkhood, is a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work. Monastic life plays an important role in many Christian churches, especially in the Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican traditions as well as in other faiths such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. In other religions, monasticism is criticized and not practiced, as in Islam and Zoroastrianism, or plays a marginal role, as in modern Judaism.
Many monastics live in abbeys, convents, monasteries, or priories to separate themselves from the secular world, unless they are in mendicant or missionary orders.
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How to Practice as a Lay PersonSerial: BZ-00152B Saturday Lecture Lay Practice, Precepts, Big Mind, Lay, Bodhisattva Precepts, Daily Life, Monastic... |
Jun 29 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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June 29th, 2002, Serial No. 04021 Freedom, Birth-and-Death, Duality, Separation, realization, Obstacles, Absolute-and-... |
Jun 29 2002 City Center |
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Kinhin and BowingSerial: BZ-00151A Sesshin Day 3 Kinhin, Bowing, Attachment, Monastic Practice, Priest, Lay, Practice Period, Anger,... |
Jun 21 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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2002.06.19-serial.00154Serial: SF-00154 Wednesday talk. Happiness, Monastic Practice, Don't Know Mind, Practice Period, Conversation,... |
Jun 19 2002 |
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June 6th, 2002, Serial No. 00452 Dragons, Monastic Practice, Buddha Nature, Tassajara, Concentration, Chanting, Bowing... |
Jun 06 2002 |
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June 6th, 2002, Serial No. 01013, Side A Dragons, Buddha Nature, Tassajara, Monastic Practice, Concentration, training,... |
Jun 06 2002 |
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Wednesday LectureSerial: SF-01019 Work week: work practice, SFZC Mission Statement, two forms of Buddha's teaching: texts, etc, and common sense. Up to us to find satisfying relationship to Buddhist teaching, "... Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Dependent Origination, realization, Perfect Wisdom,... |
Jun 05 2002 Green Gulch |
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May 30th, 2002, Serial No. 01012, Side B Offering, Practice Period, Lotus Sutra, War, Lay, Bodhisattva Way, true dharma,... |
May 30 2002 |
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Transmission of the Light ClassSerial: SF-01086 Tuesday: Breaking through the conceptual veil, Kasyapa, nothing to be transmitted, investigate the conventional world to the limit, Kukkutapada Transmission, realization, Sixth Patriarch, Book of Serenity, Ceremony, Monastic... |
May 07 2002 Green Gulch |
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May 4th, 2002, Serial No. 00146, Side B Four Noble Truths, Mahayana, Nirvana, Heart Sutra, Funeral, Samsara, Bodhisattva Vow... |
May 04 2002 |
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Transmission of the Light ClassSerial: SF-01085 Tuesday: Keizan Jokin, legitimate lineage, mind seal, hagiography, Keizan brought zen to the people, Shakyamuni's story Lineage, Transmission, Buddha Nature, Lotus Sutra, Blue Cliff Record, Faith, Monastic... |
Apr 30 2002 Green Gulch |
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April 27th, 2002, Serial No. 00146, Side A Monastic Practice, American, Greed, Teacher-and-Student, Bell, Humility, Culture,... |
Apr 27 2002 |
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April 20th, 2002, Serial No. 00145, Side B Ordination, Priest, Precepts, Vinaya, Vows, Bodhisattva Vow, Mill Valley,... |
Apr 20 2002 |
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March 28th, 2002, Serial No. 00443 Nirvana, Mahayana, Liberation, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Six Realms,... |
Mar 28 2002 |
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2002.03.15-serial.00173 Teacher-and-Student, Subject-and-Object, true dharma, Dragons, Monastic Practice,... |
Mar 15 2002 |
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Sunday Lecture Blue Cliff Record, realization, Delusion, Nirvana, Right Speech, true dharma,... |
Mar 10 2002 Green Gulch |
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Genzo-e true dharma, Transmission, Nirvana, Karma, Ceremony, Monastic Practice, Fox, Describe... |
Mar 09 2002 1 |
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2002.03.09-serial.00114A Monastic Practice, Soto Zen, soto, zen, Chanting, Greed, lecture, Sangha, Anger,... |
Mar 09 2002 |
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2002.03.09-serial.00114B true dharma, Silent Illumination, Monastic Practice, Fox, Rinzai, Family Practice,... |
Mar 09 2002 |
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2002.01.11-serial.00067 Commitment, Intimacy, Absolute-and-Relative, Impermanence, Monastic Practice,... |
Jan 11 2002 City Center |
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Pros and Cons of ReligionSerial: BZ-00096 Saturday Lecture Religion, Religion, Evil, Dream World, Diversity, Karma, Discrimination, Bodhisattva... |
Dec 01 2001 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Wednesday Lecture Mill Valley, Peace, Fasting, Zendo, Faith, Commitment, Monastic Practice,... |
Sep 26 2001 Green Gulch |
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September 24th, 2001, Serial No. 04040Serial: SF-04040 Monday Enemies, Emotions, training, Monastic Practice, Politics, Peace, Global Warming,... |
Sep 24 2001 Green Gulch |
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The Events of September 11, 2001Serial: BZ-00091 What To Do, Saturday Lecture Current Events, Greed, Patience, Aspects of Practice, Karma, Practice Period,... |
Sep 22 2001 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Wednesday Lecture Practice Period, Family Practice, Zendo, Mill Valley, Monastic Practice, Ceremony,... |
May 09 2001 Green Gulch |
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Blue Cliff Record: Case #36Serial: BZ-00099A Meeting a Person of the Way, One-Day Sitting BCR-36, Silence, Monastic Practice, Big Mind, Enemies, Bell, Intimacy, Demons,... |
Mar 18 2001 Berkeley Zen Center |
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February 17th, 2001, Serial No. 00130, Side B Priest, Ordination, Vows, Culture, Monastic Practice, Chanting, Religion, American,... |
Feb 17 2001 |
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ial No. 00485 Tassajara, Conversation, Instruction, Monastic Practice, Bell, War, Manjushri,... |
2001 |
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December 9th, 2000, Serial No. 00127, Side B Posture, Monastic Practice, Emotions, Continuous, Attachment, Enthusiasm, Liberation... |
Dec 09 2000 |
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Hongzhi's Practice InstructionsSerial: BZ-00125B Rohatsu Day 2 Hongzhi, Practice, Birth-and-Death, Dependent Origination, Ordinary Mind, Instruction... |
Dec 05 2000 Berkeley Zen Center |
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November 9th, 2000, Serial No. 00488 Birth-and-Death, Monastic Practice, Ego, Separation, Vows, Demons, Mahayana, Observe... |
Nov 09 2000 |
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Tenzo Kyokun Class Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Don't Know Mind, Mindfulness, realization, Mill... |
Nov 07 2000 Green Gulch |
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Tenzo Kyokun Class true dharma, Practice Period, Instruction, soto, Zendo, Suzuki Roshi, Big Mind,... |
Oct 24 2000 Green Gulch |
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One-day Sitting Lecture Dragons, Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Duality, Ceremony, Bowing, Emotions,... |
Sep 16 2000 Green Gulch |
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Why Do We Practice?Serial: BZ-00083B Saturday Lecture Practice, Don't Know Mind, Ego, Monastic Practice, Big Mind, Manjushri,... |
Sep 09 2000 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Sunday Lecture Monastic Practice, Zazen, Religion, Commitment, Big Mind, Buddha Ancestors, Soto Zen... |
Aug 20 2000 Green Gulch |
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Dogen's Shingi, Head GardenerSerial: BZ-00060B Saturday Lecture Shingi, Lay Practice, Cultivation, Soto Zen, Teacher-and-Student, Lay, Daily Life,... |
Aug 05 2000 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Manjushri, Avalokiteshvara, SamantabhadraSerial: BZ-00060A Saturday Lecture Bodhisattva, Manjushri, Avalokiteshvara, Samantabhadra, Manjushri, Practice Position... |
Jul 29 2000 Berkeley Zen Center |
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July 20th, 2000, Serial No. 00852 Silent Illumination, Lineage, Interview, soto, Attachment, Chanting, Obstacles,... |
Jul 20 2000 |
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July 6th, 2000, Serial No. 00854 Lotus Sutra, Blue Cliff Record, Lineage, Monastic Practice, Lay, Intimacy, Practice... |
Jul 06 2000 |
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July 1st, 2000, Serial No. 00058, Side A Diversity, Culture, Lay Practice, Vinaya, Ordination, American, Commitment,... |
Jul 01 2000 |
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Women Ancestors Monastic Practice, Ego, Chanting, Lineage, Letting Go, Conversation, Ceremony, Echo,... |
May 13 2000 3 |
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April 26th, 2000, Serial No. 03919 Right Speech, Precepts, Monastic Practice, Priest, Vows, Separation, Ego, Silence,... |
Apr 26 2000 City Center |
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Fukanzazengi ClassSerial: SF-03656 Monday Class Posture, Zazen, Monastic Practice, realization, true dharma, Lineage, confusion, Don... |
Mar 13 2000 Green Gulch |
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Sunday Lecture Monastic Practice, Hate, Demons, Conversation, Greed, Peace, Equanimity, Samsara,... |
Mar 12 2000 Green Gulch |
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Wednesday Lecture Anger, Impermanence, Zendo, Demons, Right Speech, Monastic Practice, Bodhisattva Vow... |
Mar 01 2000 Green Gulch |
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One-day Sitting Lecture realization, Buddha Ancestors, Demons, Practice Period, Heart Sutra, Bell, Suzuki... |
Feb 26 2000 Green Gulch |
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Wednesday Lecture Practice Period, Monastic Practice, Mindfulness, Buddha Mind, Nirvana Sutra, Ceremony... |
Feb 23 2000 Green Gulch |
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Fall Practice Period -- Secret PracticeSerial: BZ-00199A Saturday Lecture Practice Period, Practice Period, Commitment, Monastic Practice, Study Period, Daily... |
Oct 30 1999 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Branching Streams Flow in the DarknessSerial: BZ-00197A The Spirit of Practice Period, Saturday Lecture Practice Period, Branching Streams, Practice Period, Tassajara, Ego, Precepts,... |
Oct 16 1999 Berkeley Zen Center |