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The Bodhisattva Precepts (Skt. bodhisattva-śīla or bodhisattva-saṃvāra, traditional Chinese: 菩薩戒; ; pinyin: Púsà Jiè, Japanese: bosatsukai; Tibetan: byang chub sems dpa’i sdom pa) are a set of ethical trainings (śīla) used in Mahāyāna Buddhism to advance a practitioner along the path to becoming a bodhisattva. These sets of "restrains" (saṃvāra) are the main ethical code in Mahāyāna Buddhism and as thus also sometimes called "Mahāyāna precepts" (Ch: 大乘戒).

Traditionally, monastics observed the basic moral code in Buddhism, the monastic prātimokṣa or five precepts for laypersons, but in the Mahāyāna tradition, Buddhist monastics and laypersons commonly observe the Bodhisattva Precepts as well. The Bodhisattva Precepts are associated with the bodhisattva vow to save all beings and with bodhicitta.

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Title	Speaker	Date
Suzuki-rôshi Almost Drowning Serial: BZ-00175 From "Not Always So", Rohatsu Day 5 Suzuki Roshi, Attachment, Happiness, Teacher-and-Student, Perfect Wisdom, Bell,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 06 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
Keeping the Precepts Serial: BZ-00177A Ocku Bhikku, Saturday Lecture Precepts, Precepts, Intuition, New Year, War, Vow, Anger, Interdependence, Passions,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 14 2002 Berkeley Zen Center
January 17th, 2003, Serial No. 03088 Study, Wisdom, Precepts	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jan 17 2003
Objects of the Mind Serial: BZ-00180B Lecture Mindfulness, Concentration, Birth-and-Death, Doubt, Separation, Current Events, Death...	Sonya Margolis	Feb 08 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Title Unknown Serial: BZ-00181A Sesshin Day 1 Nirvana, Attachment, Birth-and-Death, Equanimity, Precepts, Liberation, Happiness,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 15 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Sesshin Lecture Fox, Practice Period, Precepts, Teacher-and-Student, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Mar 2003 Tassajara
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
Teacher Student Relationship Serial: BZ-01524B Precepts (from Suzuki-rôshi Book), One-Day Sitting Teacher-and-Student, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi, Precepts, Teacher-and-Student, Observe,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Apr 19 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Introduction to Zen: Koans Serial: BZ-00296 Class 3 of 4 Book of Serenity, Silent Illumination, Posture, Practice Period, Rinzai, Dragons,...	Ross Blum and Laurie Senauke	Apr 24 2003 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Introduction to Zen: Zen in Japan Serial: BZ-00295 Class 4 of 4 Lotus Sutra, Teacher-and-Student, Religion, Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Chanting...	Ross Blum and Laurie Senauke	May 01 2003 4 Berkeley Zen Center
May 1st, 2003, Serial No. 03105 Practice, Precepts, Samadhi	Tenshin Reb Anderson	May 01 2003
Dogen - Being Familiar With The Entire Body Serial: SF-00039 Sunday talk. Practice, realization, expression; Dogen's letters to nun Ryugen Realization, Buddha Ancestors, Delusion, Precepts, Lotus Sutra, Oneness, confusion,...	Taigen Dan Leighton	May 18 2003
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
June 2003 talk, Serial No. 03121 Evil, Commitment, Precepts	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Jun 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
Ethics Serial: SF-00984 Sunday lecture: Morality. Hedonists, perfectionists. College days. John Adams. Strawberry/cliff story. Wrong-doing = causing harm to oneself or others. Ten grave precepts. Gay... Precepts, Delusion, Freedom, Three Treasures, Bodhisattva Precepts, Humility,...	Fu Schroeder	Jun 29 2003 Green Gulch Farm
On Death: After the Passing of Butch Balyut Serial: BZ-01358 Saturday Lecture Death-and-Dying, Priest, Lotus Sutra, Teacher-and-Student, Blue Cliff Record,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 20 2003 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
Offerings Serial: SF-00158 Sunday talk. Children's lecture. Legend of the blue bonnets; Seijiki, offering food and light; karmic life and emptiness. Offering, Ceremony, Emptiness, Emotions, Intuition, Practice Period, Precepts, Karma...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 02 2003 Green Gulch Farm
Mindful Transformation Through Intentional Awareness Serial: RB-01541 Seminar_True_Intentions Practice, Intention, Precepts	Richard Baker	Nov 09 2003 Johanneshof
Zen and the Eco-Consumer Code Serial: SF-00156 Wednesday talk. Ecopsychology; desires, needs, narcissism; nurturing through zazen. Karma, Buddha Nature, Practice Period, Ceremony, Buddha Ancestors, Ego, Precepts,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 19 2003
Things to be Mindful of in the New Year Serial: BZ-01377 Is a Six-pack and Pornography Practice?, Saturday Lecture Precepts, Practice, Daily Life, Commitment, Addiction, Big Mind, Doubt, Family...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 13 2003 Berkeley Zen Center
Housekeeping Serial: SF-01024 Sunday Lecture: Children's Program. The Indian children who used to live here. Indian story about how the world was made. Staying home and accomplishing the way. Gateway into... New Year, Bodhisattva Precepts, Separation, Practice Period, Precepts, Mill Valley,...	Fu Schroeder	Feb 01 2004 Green Gulch Farm
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
Buddha's Parinirvana Serial: BZ-01248 Sesshin Day 1 Parinirvana, Nirvana, Impermanence, Birth-and-Death, Buddha's Birthday,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 14 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
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
Wednesday Lecture Serial: SF-01023 Linda Ruth with her sick mother. The mountain lion. The bobcat. The rat. New film, "The Passion of Christ". Self-restraint. Mindfulness of the body. Angulimala. Hate, Current Events, First Principle, Passions, Precepts, Doubt, Realization,...	Fu Schroeder	Mar 17 2004 Green Gulch Farm
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
Record of Tung-shan Serial: BZ-01264 Saturday Lecture Practice Period, Offering, Four Noble Truths, Practice Position, Heart Sutra,...	Baika Pratt	May 22 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
May 30th, 2004, Serial No. 03190 Precepts, Buddha, Ceremony	Tenshin Reb Anderson	May 30 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
Gakudo Yojin-Shu (last): Practicing Within the Obstructions Serial: BZ-01270B Staining, Not Breaking Precepts, Sesshin Day 4 Gakudo Yojin-Shu, Hindrances, Precepts, confusion, Practice Period, Buddha Nature,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 19 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
Eight Awakenings Serial: SF-03589 Zendo Lecture Mindfulness, Greed, Attachment, Daily Life, Right Speech, Posture, Precepts, Don...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Jul 16 2004 Tassajara
August 3rd, 2004, Serial No. 03211 Intimacy, Culture, Precepts	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Aug 03 2004
Love, Holistic Approach: Love and Intimacy as a Wide Path of Practice Serial: BZ-01282B Lecture Transmission, Passions, Culture, Dream World, Precepts, Monastic Practice, Buddha...	David Weinberg	Oct 02 2004 Berkeley Zen Center
October 2nd, 2004, Serial No. 01569 Transmission, Culture, Dream World, Passions, Precepts, Monastic Practice, Lineage,...		Oct 02 2004
Sitting Under The Rose-Apple Tree Serial: SF-01016 Sunday Lecture Balance, Darkness-and-Light, Bell, Commitment, Letting Go, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi,...	Wendy Johnson	Oct 03 2004 Green Gulch Farm
Lotus Sutra Class Serial: SF-03554 Dining Room Class 3 Lotus Sutra, Precepts, Daily Life, Nirvana, Bell, Renunciation, Samsara, Balance,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Oct 20 2004 Tassajara
Buddha Nature and the Ugly Duckling Serial: SF-00056 Zendo lecture; feeling of not fitting in and not belonging that sends us towards spiritual practice. Lotus Sutra, Buddha Nature, Ego, Delusion, Precepts, Posture, Addiction	Kosho McCall	Nov 06 2004 Tassajara
The Eighth Characteristic of an Enlightened Person Serial: BZ-01298 No Babbling (Idle Talk), Saturday Lecture Enlightenment, Precepts, Right Speech, Dream World, Subject-and-Object, Silence, Ego...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 11 2004 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,...	Fu Schroeder	Dec 19 2004 Green Gulch Farm
2005, Serial No. 03271 Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Consciousness	Tenshin Reb Anderson	2005
Diving Into the Spirit Serial: BZ-01300C Saturday Lecture Four Noble Truths, New Year, Obstacles, Instruction, Lineage, Precepts, Posture...	Baika Pratt	Jan 08 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Introduction to Buddhism: The Life of the Buddha Serial: BZ-00566 Class 1 of 4 Four Noble Truths, Concentration, Buddha's Birthday, Precepts, Culture,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jan 24 2005 1 Berkeley Zen Center
Relaxing into Uprightness: Calm Mind, Zazen Instruction and Ice Skating Serial: BZ-01303 Saturday Lecture Precepts, Posture, Half-Smile, Instruction, Don't Know Mind, Subject-and-Object...	Laurie Senauke	Jan 29 2005 Berkeley Zen Center
Introduction to Buddhism: The Four Noble Truths Serial: BZ-00567 Class 2 of 4 Four Noble Truths, Right Speech, Right Effort, Concentration, Birth-and-Death,...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Jan 31 2005 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Introduction to Buddhism: Karma and the Precepts Serial: BZ-00568 Class 3 of 4 Karma, Dependent Origination, causation, Precepts, War, Right Speech, Vow, Repentance...	Hozan Alan Senauke	Feb 07 2005 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Hokyo Zammai: Precious Mirror Samadhi Serial: BZ-00773 Class 5 of 12 Precepts, Intuition, Forgiveness, Buddha Nature, Absolute-and-Relative, Repentance,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 17 2005 5 Tassajara
Hokyo Zammai: Precious Mirror Samadhi Serial: BZ-00770 Class 8 of 12 Five Ranks, Transmission, Soto Zen, Teacher-and-Student, Attachment, Light-and-...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 02 2005 8 Tassajara
Zendo Talk Practice Period, Attachment, Don't Know Mind, Vow, Precepts, Gratitude, Silence...	Pat Phalen	Mar 08 2005 Berkeley Zen Center

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