Religion Talks
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacredness, faith, and a supernatural being or beings.
The origin of religious belief is an open question, with possible explanations including awareness of individual death, a sense of community, and dreams. Religions have sacred histories, narratives, and mythologies, preserved in oral traditions, sacred texts, symbols, and holy places, that may attempt to explain the origin of life, the universe, and other phenomena.
Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities or saints), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, matrimonial and funerary services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, or public service.
There are an estimated 10,000 distinct religions worldwide, though nearly all of them have regionally based, relatively small followings. Four religions—Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism—account for over 77% of the world's population, and 92% of the world either follows one of those four religions or identifies as nonreligious, meaning that the remaining 9,000+ faiths account for only 8% of the population combined. The religiously unaffiliated demographic includes those who do not identify with any particular religion, atheists, and agnostics, although many in the demographic still have various religious beliefs.
Many world religions are also organized religions, most definitively including the Abrahamic religions Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, while others are arguably less so, in particular folk religions, indigenous religions, and some Eastern religions. A portion of the world's population are members of new religious movements. Scholars have indicated that global religiosity may be increasing due to religious countries having generally higher birth rates.
The study of religion comprises a wide variety of academic disciplines, including theology, philosophy of religion, comparative religion, and social scientific studies. Theories of religion offer various explanations for its origins and workings, including the ontological foundations of religious being and belief.
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Practice Zazen With Your Whole Mind And BodySerial: SF-05131B This is lecture D from these notes on the reel boxes (05132-B was added to this) Instruction, Zazen, Posture, Beginners, Funeral, Religion, Instruction, Emotions,... |
Sep 08 1967 Morning Tassajara |
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If Our Teaching Is A Special TeachingSerial: SF-05130B SR013 date? Fall 1967 Tassajara III - Side 2 2nd half - Part of Suzuki lecture copied Religion |
Sep 1967 Tassajara |
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Buddhism Is Not a Special Teaching; Enlightenment Is Not a Particular StageSerial: SF-05134D ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #17, by Shundo David Haye ===== About half way through this sesshin talk, you can start to hear crickets in the background, getting... Sesshin, Dogen, Genjokoan, Enemies, Continuous, Doubt, Religion, Peace |
Aug 23 1967 Tassajara |
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In the first instruction of ten instructions in Gakudō-yōjin-shūSesshin, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Sixth Patriarch, Platform Sutra, training, Instruction,... |
Dec 17 1966 A Sokoji |
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Sesshin Lecture: Genjo-Koan, Paragraphs 1–2Serial: SF-05096-B May Sesshin (25 26 added later) 1 or 6pm lecture plus lecture the following morning. Sesshin, Dogen, Genjokoan, Precepts, Mahayana, Freedom, Observe, Balance, Attachment... |
May 26 1966 Sokoji |
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On Japanese Zen, Christians and Zen, Various RoshisSerial: SF-01130 Tape 6 copy 1 Dana, Lay, Priest, Zazen, Religion, Zendo, Mahayana, training, soto, Concentration... |
Mar 1966 Kyoto |
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On Sokei-An's HistorySerial: SF-01134 Tape 8 copy 1 Doubt, Echo, Continuous, Interview, Conversation, confusion, Religion, Peace... |
Mar 1966 Kyoto |
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On Nanshin-Ken, Sokatsu-ShakuSerial: SF-01137B Tape 2 copy 1 Lay, Priest, Rinzai, Doubt, Religion |
Feb 25 1966 Kyoto |
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Tokusan and The Old LadySerial: SF-05114-C ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #10, by Shundo David Haye ===== This is another track from the same problematic reel as the previous two talks in this series.... Sesshin, Diamond Sutra, Balance, training, Religion |
Feb 19 1966 1:00pm Sokoji |
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Saturday Evening LectureSerial: SF-05117A Tape VIII (?) Side 1 Sat eve lecture (1 - 60); Side 2 Sat eve lecture (1-15?) Question-and-Answer, Daily Life, Buddha Nature, Happiness, Balance, Bell, Evil, Hate... |
Jul 31 1965 Sokoji |
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Do You Have Some Questions?Serial: SF-05107A Tape 7 Summer 1965 Sesshin: Side 1 Friday evening lecture (transcribed) [Case replaced 12/95. Original notes were transcribed verbatim - WKR] Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Transmission, training, Emotions, Buddha Nature,... |
Jul 30 1965 D Sokoji |
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If You Have A QuestionSerial: SF-05105B Tape 6 Friday July 30 Side 1: 1pm lecture (continued on side 2) - transcribed Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Buddha Nature, Religion, Peace, Obstacles, confusion,... |
Jul 30 1965 C Sokoji |
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QuestionsSerial: SF-05103C Tape 4 Summer Sesshin 1965: Thursday July 29 1pm lecture - transcribed Sesshin, Question-and-Answer, Buddha Nature, Priest, Faith, Demons, Religion... |
Jul 29 1965 B Sokoji |
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Pure RulesSerial: SF-05126A ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #6, by Shundo David Haye ===== The value of these sets of recordings during sesshins in the summer of 1965 at Sokoji is that not... Sesshin, Instruction, Emptiness, Interview, Religion, Faith |
Jul 28 1965 9:00am Sokoji |
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Forgotten the Value of ReligionSerial: SF-05101A ===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #5, by Shundo David Haye ===== The oldest recordings of Suzuki Roshi made at Sokoji, the home of the San Francisco Zen Center at the... Sesshin, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Inmost Nature, Religion, Don't Know Mind, Buddha... |
Jul 27 1965 1:00pm Sokoji |
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Why We Should Practice ZazenSerial: SF-05112B Tape 1 Summer sesshin 1965, Monday 1st day of sesshin (?) July 26th 1965; Side 2: 6:15pm lecture - transcribed August 1965 Sesshin, Shobogenzo, New Year, Silence, confusion, Anger, Religion, Faith |
Jul 26 1965 6:15pm Sokoji |
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Religion and Spirituality Religion, Impermanence, Evil, Ego, Attachment, Priest, realization |
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YYYY.02.02-serial.00011 Religion, Emotions, Passions, Culture, Buddha Nature, soto, training, confusion, Vows... |
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YYYY.01.30-serial.00066 Buddha Nature, Nirvana Sutra, Big Mind, causation, Subject-and-Object, Zendo,... |
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YYYY.MM.DD-serial.00098B Meditation, Buddha Nature, Daily Life, Non-discrimination, Nirvana Sutra, Passions,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00518 Priest, Politics, Dragons, Interview, soto, Instruction, Religion, Doubt, Building,... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00524 Daily Life, Religion, Ego |
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Unknown Date, Serial 00555 Heart Sutra, Attachment, Echo, Ordination, Silence, Chanting, Lineage, Bell, Religion... |
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Unknown Date, Serial 01182 Birth-and-Death, Absolute-and-Relative, Religion, Don't Know Mind, Big Mind,... |
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