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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 LectureSerial: 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 |
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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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How to Draw Sound From the BellSerial: BZ-00152A Sesshin Day 5 Bell, Bell, Precepts, Soto Zen, Chanting, Mindfulness, Practice Period, Doubt, Lay,... |
Jun 23 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Lay OrdinationSerial: BZ-00149B Saturday Lecture Lay Ordination, Precepts, Ordination, Buddha Nature, Bodhisattva Way, Buddha... |
Jun 15 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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BZC PreceptsSerial: BZ-00148B Lecture Teacher-and-Student, Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Berkeley Zen Center, Intimacy,... |
Jun 01 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Dogen and Modern Science: Many SimilaritiesSerial: BZ-00148A Lecture Intuition, Duality, Precepts, Peace |
May 25 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Transmission of the Light ClassSerial: 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 |
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The PreceptsSerial: BZ-00448 Class 4 of 4 Precepts, Passions, Conversation, Building, Peace, Anger, Fox, Politics, Silence,... |
May 09 2002 4 Berkeley Zen Center |
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The PreceptsSerial: BZ-00447 Class 3 of 4 Right Speech, Conversation, Precepts, Silence, Happiness, New Year, Culture,... |
May 02 2002 3 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Ordination: What it MeansSerial: BZ-00145B Lecture Monastic Practice, Ordination, Priest, Precepts, Vinaya, Vow, Bodhisattva Vow, Mill... |
Apr 20 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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The PreceptsSerial: BZ-00446 Class 2 of 4 Precepts, Right Speech, Obstacles, Liberation, Heart Sutra, Observe, Passions, Bell,... |
Apr 18 2002 2 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Embracing Impermanence with Compassion Impermanence, Blue Cliff Record, Hate, Non-violence, Birth-and-Death, Vow, Precepts,... |
Apr 13 2002 City Center |
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The PreceptsSerial: BZ-00445 Class 1 of 4 Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Ordination, Lineage, Observe, Vow, Transmission,... |
Apr 11 2002 1 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Four Noble Truths: Eightfold PathSerial: BZ-00444 Class 4 of 4 Right Speech, Right Effort, Happiness, Concentration, Four Noble Truths, Mindfulness... |
Apr 04 2002 4 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Zen and Poetry Class Light-and-Darkness, Silence, Freedom, Practice Period, Enemies, Bell, Precepts, Zoom... |
Mar 26 2002 Green Gulch |
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First Pure Mind Precept: Not KillingSerial: BZ-00142B Saturday Lecture Non-violence, Two Truths, Precepts, Offering, Discrimination, Culture, Birth-and-... |
Mar 23 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Four Noble Truths: Causes of SufferingSerial: BZ-00469 Class 2 of 4 Karma, Birth-and-Death, Attachment, Six Realms, Precepts, Renewal, Nirvana,... |
Mar 21 2002 2 Berkeley Zen Center |
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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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2002.03.10-serial.00080 Ego, Zazen, Attachment, difficulty, Precepts, Passions |
Mar 10 2002 |
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Tenth PreceptSerial: 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 |
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Buddha's ParinirvanaSerial: 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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No Fault-Finding--Sixth PreceptSerial: BZ-00062A Skillful Criticism, Saturday Lecture Precepts, Precepts, Big Mind, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Oneness, Mahayana, Buddha Nature... |
Feb 02 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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ForgivenessSerial: BZ-00061B Saturday Lecture Forgiveness, Anger, Forgiveness, Equanimity, Evil, Attachment, Precepts, Politics,... |
Jan 26 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Sixth and Seventh Precepts and ContentionSerial: BZ-00066B One-Day Sitting Precepts, Anger, Precepts, stubbornness, Separation, Subject-and-Object, Attachment,... |
Jan 12 2002 Berkeley Zen Center |
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EgolessnessSerial: BZ-00063B Rohatsu Day 6 Ego, Precepts, Ego, Anger, Chanting, Teacher-and-Student, Patience, Vinaya, Posture,... |
Dec 07 2001 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Suzuki RoshiSerial: BZ-00063A Rohatsu Day 5 Ego, Precepts, Posture, training, Sangha, Lay, Practice Period, Duality, Non-duality... |
Dec 06 2001 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Blue Cliff Record: Case #86Serial: BZ-00064B Rohatsu Day 4 BCR-86, Meal Serving, Samadhi, Ego, Big Mind, Addiction, Chanting, Precepts, Religion... |
Dec 05 2001 Berkeley Zen Center |
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ZazenSerial: BZ-00064A Rohatsu Day 3 Zazen, Concentration, Posture, resistance, Right Effort, Mindfulness, Samadhi,... |
Dec 04 2001 Berkeley Zen Center |
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FormsSerial: BZ-00095A One Day Sitting Precepts, resistance, Repentance, Soto Zen, Observe, Lay Ordination, Birth-and-Death... |
Nov 18 2001 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Pilgrimage and Victims of ViolenceSerial: BZ-00094B Lecture War, Four Noble Truths, Commitment, Enemies, Culture, Non-violence, American,... |
Nov 10 2001 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Dogen and Plum BlossomsSerial: BZ-00094A Saturday Lecture Dogen, Buddha Nature, Big Mind, Dragons, Priest-and-Lay, Buddha Ancestors,... |
Nov 03 2001 Berkeley Zen Center |
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2001.10.21-serial.00087 Repentance, Four Noble Truths, Precepts, Beginners, Posture, Impermanence, Funeral,... |
Oct 21 2001 |
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Aspects of Practice: Suzuki RoshiSerial: BZ-00477 Class 1 of 4 War, Bell, Priest, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Precepts, Posture, Branching... |
Oct 04 2001 1 Berkeley Zen Center |
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2001.08.10-serial.00082 Repentance, Daily Life, Vow, Practice Period, Culture, lecture, difficulty, Precepts... |
Aug 10 2001 |
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Living Mindfully in Earth's Embrace Birth-and-Death, Karma, Hate, Balance, Oneness, Precepts, Dragons, resistance, Greed... |
Apr 21 2001 Unknown |
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Mind, Nature, and Sacred Connection Practice, Precepts, Bowing |
Mar 28 2001 |
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March 23rd, 2001, Serial No. 03012 Precepts, Vinaya, Passions |
Mar 23 2001 |
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February 16th, 2001, Serial No. 03001 Samadhi, Precepts, Bell |
Feb 16 2001 |
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February 12th, 2001, Serial No. 02999 Precepts, Zazen, Practice |
Feb 12 2001 |
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2001.02.04-serial.00049 Precepts, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, confusion, Dependent Origination, Subject-... |
Feb 04 2001 |
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Interview with Sojun Mel WeitsmanSerial: BZ-00068 Interview 2 of 3 Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Priest, Precepts, training, Priest-and-Lay,... |
Jan 05 2001 2 Berkeley Zen Center |
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Tenzo Kyokun Class Practice Period, Attachment, Offering, Letting Go, Bodhisattva Way, Emptiness,... |
Nov 28 2000 Green Gulch |
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Wednesday Lecture Precepts, Equanimity, Bodhisattva Precepts, Enemies, Bodhisattva Vow, Ceremony,... |
Sep 13 2000 Green Gulch |
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Women Ancestors Class Precepts, Three Treasures, Lay, Sangha, Mahayana, Sanctuary, Addiction, Hate,... |
Aug 22 2000 Unknown |
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Branching Streams Flow in the DarknessSerial: 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 |
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Women Ancestors Class Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Lay, Ceremony, Silence, Freedom, Practice Period,... |
Aug 15 2000 Unknown |
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The Tenth PreceptSerial: SF-03571 Wednesday Lecture Three Treasures, Precepts, Sangha, Suzuki Roshi, Priest-and-Lay, Bodhisattva Precepts... |
Aug 09 2000 Green Gulch |
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Women Ancestors Class Ceremony, Religion, Teacher-and-Student, Emotions, Sangha, Commitment, Conversation,... |
Jul 25 2000 Unknown |
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Sunday Lecture Ordination, Offering, Precepts, Three Treasures, Ceremony, true dharma, Buddha Mind,... |
Jul 23 2000 Green Gulch |
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July 20th, 2000, Serial No. 02982 Breath, Poetry, Precepts |
Jul 20 2000 |