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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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Sunday Lecture

Serial: SF-04039

Listening without judgement, compassion, what hinders our ability, fear of not being helpful, generosity, 98% is about me, reflective listening, cultivate spaciousness, arguing...

Cultivation, Conversation, training, Observe, Precepts, Avalokiteshvara, Zendo,...
Jun 30 2002
Green Gulch

How to Practice as a Lay Person

Serial: BZ-00152B

Saturday Lecture

Lay Practice, Precepts, Big Mind, Lay, Bodhisattva Precepts, Daily Life, Monastic...
Jun 29 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

How to Draw Sound From the Bell

Serial: BZ-00152A

Sesshin Day 5

Bell, Bell, Precepts, Soto Zen, Chanting, Mindfulness, Practice Period, Doubt, Lay,...
Jun 23 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Lay Ordination

Serial: BZ-00149B

Saturday Lecture

Lay Ordination, Precepts, Ordination, Buddha Nature, Bodhisattva Way, Buddha...
Jun 15 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

BZC Precepts

Serial: BZ-00148B

Lecture

Teacher-and-Student, Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Berkeley Zen Center, Intimacy,...
Jun 01 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen and Modern Science: Many Similarities

Serial: BZ-00148A

Lecture 

Intuition, Duality, Precepts, Peace
May 25 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Transmission of the Light Class

Serial: SF-00917

Be careful about taking doctrine too much on faith, Don Juan's two cats; Ananda, every one of these stories has a warning, Dogen: all things, just as they are, are perfectly...

Delusion, realization, Emptiness, Transmission, Religion, Interdependence, Birth-and-...
May 14 2002
Green Gulch

The Precepts

Serial: BZ-00448

Class 4 of 4

Precepts, Passions, Conversation, Building, Peace, Anger, Fox, Politics, Silence,...
May 09 2002
4
Berkeley Zen Center

The Precepts

Serial: BZ-00447

Class 3 of 4

Right Speech, Conversation, Precepts, Silence, Happiness, New Year, Culture,...
May 02 2002
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Ordination: What it Means

Serial: BZ-00145B

Lecture

Monastic Practice, Ordination, Priest, Precepts, Vinaya, Vow, Bodhisattva Vow, Mill...
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

Embracing Impermanence with Compassion

Impermanence, Blue Cliff Record, Hate, Non-violence, Birth-and-Death, Vow, Precepts,...
Apr 13 2002
City Center

The Precepts

Serial: BZ-00445

Class 1 of 4

Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Ordination, Lineage, Observe, Vow, Transmission,...
Apr 11 2002
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Four Noble Truths: Eightfold Path

Serial: BZ-00444

Class 4 of 4

Right Speech, Right Effort, Happiness, Concentration, Four Noble Truths, Mindfulness...
Apr 04 2002
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Zen and Poetry Class

Light-and-Darkness, Silence, Freedom, Practice Period, Enemies, Bell, Precepts, Zoom...
Mar 26 2002
Green Gulch

First Pure Mind Precept: Not Killing

Serial: BZ-00142B

Saturday Lecture

Non-violence, Two Truths, Precepts, Offering, Discrimination, Culture, Birth-and-...
Mar 23 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Four Noble Truths: Causes of Suffering

Serial: BZ-00469

Class 2 of 4

Karma, Birth-and-Death, Attachment, Six Realms, Precepts, Renewal, Nirvana,...
Mar 21 2002
2
Berkeley Zen Center

2002.03.15-serial.00173

Teacher-and-Student, Subject-and-Object, true dharma, Dragons, Monastic Practice,...
Mar 15 2002

2002.03.10-serial.00080

Ego, Zazen, Attachment, difficulty, Precepts, Passions
Mar 10 2002

Tenth Precept

Serial: BZ-00140B

"Shoes Outside the Door", Saturday Lecture

Precepts, Richard Baker, Religion, Sangha, Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature, Intuition...
Mar 09 2002
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

No Fault-Finding--Sixth Precept

Serial: BZ-00062A

Skillful Criticism, Saturday Lecture

Precepts, Precepts, Big Mind, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Oneness, Mahayana, Buddha Nature...
Feb 02 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Forgiveness

Serial: BZ-00061B

Saturday Lecture

Forgiveness, Anger, Forgiveness, Equanimity, Evil, Attachment, Precepts, Politics,...
Jan 26 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Sixth and Seventh Precepts and Contention

Serial: BZ-00066B

One-Day Sitting

Precepts, Anger, Precepts, stubbornness, Separation, Subject-and-Object, Attachment,...
Jan 12 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Egolessness

Serial: BZ-00063B

Rohatsu Day 6

Ego, Precepts, Ego, Anger, Chanting, Teacher-and-Student, Patience, Vinaya, Posture,...
Dec 07 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Suzuki Roshi

Serial: BZ-00063A

Rohatsu Day 5

Ego, Precepts, Posture, training, Sangha, Lay, Practice Period, Duality, Non-duality...
Dec 06 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #86

Serial: BZ-00064B

Rohatsu Day 4

BCR-86, Meal Serving, Samadhi, Ego, Big Mind, Addiction, Chanting, Precepts, Religion...
Dec 05 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Zazen

Serial: BZ-00064A

Rohatsu Day 3

Zazen, Concentration, Posture, resistance, Right Effort, Mindfulness, Samadhi,...
Dec 04 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Forms

Serial: BZ-00095A

One Day Sitting

Precepts, resistance, Repentance, Soto Zen, Observe, Lay Ordination, Birth-and-Death...
Nov 18 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Pilgrimage and Victims of Violence

Serial: BZ-00094B

Lecture

War, Four Noble Truths, Commitment, Enemies, Culture, Non-violence, American,...
Nov 10 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen and Plum Blossoms

Serial: BZ-00094A

Saturday Lecture

Dogen, Buddha Nature, Big Mind, Dragons, Priest-and-Lay, Buddha Ancestors,...
Nov 03 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

2001.10.21-serial.00087

Repentance, Four Noble Truths, Precepts, Beginners, Posture, Impermanence, Funeral,...
Oct 21 2001

Aspects of Practice: Suzuki Roshi

Serial: BZ-00477

Class 1 of 4

War, Bell, Priest, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Precepts, Posture, Branching...
Oct 04 2001
1
Berkeley Zen Center

2001.08.10-serial.00082

Repentance, Daily Life, Vow, Practice Period, Culture, lecture, difficulty, Precepts...
Aug 10 2001

Living Mindfully in Earth's Embrace

Birth-and-Death, Karma, Hate, Balance, Oneness, Precepts, Dragons, resistance, Greed...
Apr 21 2001
Unknown

Mind, Nature, and Sacred Connection

Practice, Precepts, Bowing
Mar 28 2001

March 23rd, 2001, Serial No. 03012

Precepts, Vinaya, Passions
Mar 23 2001

February 16th, 2001, Serial No. 03001

Samadhi, Precepts, Bell
Feb 16 2001

February 12th, 2001, Serial No. 02999

Precepts, Zazen, Practice
Feb 12 2001

2001.02.04-serial.00049

Precepts, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, confusion, Dependent Origination, Subject-...
Feb 04 2001

Interview with Sojun Mel Weitsman

Serial: BZ-00068

Interview 2 of 3

Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Priest, Precepts, training, Priest-and-Lay,...
Jan 05 2001
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Tenzo Kyokun Class

Practice Period, Attachment, Offering, Letting Go, Bodhisattva Way, Emptiness,...
Nov 28 2000
Green Gulch

Wednesday Lecture

Precepts, Equanimity, Bodhisattva Precepts, Enemies, Bodhisattva Vow, Ceremony,...
Sep 13 2000
Green Gulch

Women Ancestors Class

Precepts, Three Treasures, Lay, Sangha, Mahayana, Sanctuary, Addiction, Hate,...
Aug 22 2000
Unknown

Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness

Serial: BZ-00085B

Unity in Diversity, Diversity in Unity, Saturday Lecture

Sandokai, Branching Streams, Subject-and-Object, Diversity, Bell, Oneness, Precepts,...
Aug 19 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Women Ancestors Class

Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Lay, Ceremony, Silence, Freedom, Practice Period,...
Aug 15 2000
Unknown

The Tenth Precept

Serial: SF-03571

Wednesday Lecture

Three Treasures, Precepts, Sangha, Suzuki Roshi, Priest-and-Lay, Bodhisattva Precepts...
Aug 09 2000
Green Gulch

Women Ancestors Class

Ceremony, Religion, Teacher-and-Student, Emotions, Sangha, Commitment, Conversation,...
Jul 25 2000
Unknown

Sunday Lecture

Ordination, Offering, Precepts, Three Treasures, Ceremony, true dharma, Buddha Mind,...
Jul 23 2000
Green Gulch

July 20th, 2000, Serial No. 02982

Breath, Poetry, Precepts
Jul 20 2000

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