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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Lay Practice in Malaysia: Mindfulness and Loving Kindness

Serial: BZ-00655B

Lecture

Monastic Practice, Precepts, Religion, American, Emotions, Mindfulness, Daily Life,...
Aug 14 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

The Spiritual Life is Not Separate from the Mundane

Serial: BZ-00668B

Saturday Lecture

Emptiness, Happiness, Mundane Life, Greed, Teacher-and-Student, Religion,...
Jul 18 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Chaos Theory, Hierarchy Theory

Serial: BZ-01515B

Lecture

Mill Valley, Observe, Culture, Mindfulness, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Jul 03 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

1993.06.30-serial.00282

Blue Cliff Record, Sutra, Sesshin, Offering, Religion
Jun 30 1993

1993.05.14-serial.00114

Thich Nhat Hanh, Practice Period, Don't Know Mind, Greed, Religion
May 14 1993

Prajapati and the Ordination of Women: Respecting the Life of the Unborn

Serial: BZ-00285B

Women's Sitting

Priest, Ordination, Happiness, Precepts, Culture, Religion, War, Lay
Mar 21 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Introduction to Buddhism

Serial: BZ-00263

Class 1 of 6

Four Noble Truths, Culture, Nirvana, Religion, Karma, Enthusiasm, Anger, Hindrances,...
Mar 11 1993
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Shakyamuni Buddha

Serial: BZ-00645B

Lecture

Concentration, Nirvana, Culture, Buddha Nature, Attachment, Beginners, Posture,...
Dec 12 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00645A

Rohatsu Day 7

resistance, Doubt, stubbornness, Duality, Fundraising, Harmonizing, Obstacles,...
Dec 06 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Women in Japanese Soto Zen

Serial: SF-00097

Author reading from her book on the subject.

Soto Zen, training, Monastic Practice, Ordination, Ceremony, Religion, Lay, Emptiness...
Nov 25 1992

The Paramitas

Serial: BZ-00639A

One day sitting

Happiness, Right Effort, Offering, Enthusiasm, Mindfulness, Patience, Heart Sutra,...
Oct 03 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

The Path of Purification: The Dynamic, Not Static Nature of Virtue in Buddhamind

Serial: BZ-00637B

Lecture

Buddha Mind, Religion, Politics, Non-violence, Doubt, Concentration, American, Peace...
Sep 12 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Family, Friends, and Practice

Serial: BZ-00636A

Sesshin Day 1

Family Practice, Mundane Life, Family Practice, Daily Life, American, Anger,...
Sep 05 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan: Manifesting Larger Being Through Small Being

Serial: BZ-00635A

Lecture

Subject-and-Object, Big Mind, Absolute-and-Relative, Duality, Religion, Impermanence...
Aug 22 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #45: Who Is that Other?

Serial: BZ-00711B

Buddha and Maitreya Are Servants to Another, Saturday Lecture

Buddha, Maitreya, MM-45, Ego, Anger, Five Ranks, Absolute-and-Relative, Bodhisattva...
Jun 13 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #19

Serial: BZ-00711A

Ordinary Mind Is the Way, Saturday Lecture

Ordinary Mind, MM-19, Ordinary Mind, Doubt, confusion, Religion, Hate, Culture,...
Jun 07 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00713B

Sesshin Day 2

American, Monastic Practice, Demons, Culture, Silence, Lineage, Religion
May 18 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00686A

Women's Sitting

Posture, Right Effort, Culture, Lineage, training, Beginners, Vow, Religion
Mar 01 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Is Buddhism a Religion? Yes, No

Serial: BZ-00684A

Saturday Lecture

Religion, Buddhism, Religion, Subject-and-Object, Pure Existence, Discrimination, zen...
Jan 25 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Introduction to Buddhism: Three Treasures; Tripitaka, 4 Noble Truths, 8-fold Path

Serial: BZ-00281

Clas 2 of 5

Four Noble Truths, Impermanence, Heart Sutra, Lay, Sangha, Karma, Buddha Mind,...
Jan 23 1992
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Introduction to Buddhism: Personal History

Serial: BZ-00282

Class 1 of 5

Four Noble Truths, Lay, Renunciation, Religion, Lineage, Fasting, Dependent...
Jan 16 1992
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Personal History, Trappist Monkdom, Hospice Center

Serial: BZ-00683A

Lecture

training, Religion, New Year, War, Chanting, Priest, Forgiveness, Demons, Commitment...
Jan 11 1992
Berkeley Zen Center

Images of Fire

Serial: SF-01848

Commercially Produced cassette: Sounds True, PO Box 8010, Boulder CO 80306

Faith, Passions, Silence, Religion
1992
Unknown

Song of the Jewel Mirror Samadhi, Tozan's Five Ranks

Serial: BZ-00732

Sesshin Day 4

Concentration, Religion, Absolute-and-Relative, Doubt, Mindfulness, Transmission,...
Dec 16 1991

Transmission of Light

Eka, Bodhidharma, Four Noble Truths, Buddha Ancestors, Soto Zen, Greed, Birth-and-...
Dec 14 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Title Unknown

Serial: BZ-00693B

Rohatsu Day 7

Religion, Ordinary Mind, Discrimination, Duality, Don't Know Mind, Greed,...
Dec 07 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Wonderful Ramblings on Zen in America

Serial: BZ-00703B

Lecture

American, Building, Heart Sutra, Interview, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Posture,...
Nov 09 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Talk to Tokubetsu Sesshin

Serial: BZ-00624

Sesshin

Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Building, Gratitude, confusion,...
Oct 13 1991

World Peace and Health

Serial: SF-04064

Copyright California Diamond Sangha

Right Speech, Mahayana, Attachment, Right Effort, Zazen, Daily Life, Vow, training,...
Aug 21 1991
Unknown

Naturalness

Serial: BZ-00970B

Lecture

true dharma, Religion, Composure, resistance, Heart Sutra, Concentration, Daily Life...
Jul 19 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Suffering and Intention

Serial: BZ-00968A

Sesshin Day 5

Suffering, Intention, Emotions, Karma, Don't Know Mind, Religion, Lay, Tassajara...
Jun 30 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen’s “Zenki”: Undivided Activity

Serial: BZ-00276

Class 2 of 3

Birth-and-Death, Subject-and-Object, Interview, Duality, Religion, War, Emotions,...
Jun 06 1991
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen’s “Zenki”: Undivided Activity

Serial: BZ-00277

Class 1 of 3

Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature, Thoroughness, Religion, Separation, Obstacles, Lay,...
May 23 1991
1
Berkeley Zen Center

World Peace Through Compassion and Non-Violence

Non-violence, Peace, Religion, Happiness, Freedom, Politics, Hate, Patience, Greed,...
Apr 09 1991

Shuso Lecture

Serial: SF-00949

#shuso-talk

Equanimity, Six Realms, Peace, Balance, Delusion, Happiness, Emotions, Zazen,...
Mar 27 1991
Unknown

All Being and Our Sense of Self

Serial: BZ-00691A

Sesshin Day 1

Birth-and-Death, Impermanence, Buddha Nature, Ego, Platform Sutra, Priest, Religion,...
Mar 16 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Fundamentalism, Prayer, Orthodoxy: Science and Religion

Serial: BZ-00690A

Lecture

Hate, Religion, First Principle, Evil, Doubt, Samsara, Mahayana, Politics,...
Mar 02 1991
Berkeley Zen Center

Appreciating the Different Religions of the World

Serial: BZ-00699B

Saturday Lecture

Religion, Religion, Separation, New Year, Subject-and-Object, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Dec 22 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan

Serial: BZ-00698B

Enlightenment, Rohatsu Day 7

Enlightenment, Religion, Peace, Buddha Nature, Attachment, Diversity, Hindrances, Lay...
Dec 08 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Genjokoan

Serial: BZ-00697B

Rohatsu Day 5

Transmission, Birth-and-Death, Separation, Dragons, Hindrances, Religion, Peace,...
Dec 06 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Still Looking for Home

Serial: BZ-00695B

Saturday Lecture

Religion, Bell, Building, Karma, Enthusiasm, Fox, Politics, Interview, Bowing,...
Nov 17 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Heart Sutra

Serial: BZ-00494A

Lecture

Heart Sutra, Chanting, Doubt, Hindrances, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Posture,...
Oct 13 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Three Worlds: Living Forward with Courage and Buddhanature

Serial: BZ-00492A

Lecture 

Buddha Nature, Building, Aspects of Practice, Separation, Culture, Fox, Rinzai, Soto...
Sep 15 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

Vinaya: Rules of Order

Serial: BZ-00504

Saturday Lecture

Vinaya, Precepts, Zazen Mind, Vinaya, Non-violence, Sangha, Priest, Hindrances,...
Jun 02 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

The Triple Treasure

Serial: BZ-00499

Saturday Lecture

Three Treasures, Three Treasures, Sangha, Big Mind, Teacher-and-Student, Buddha...
Feb 03 1990
Berkeley Zen Center

January 27th, 1990, Serial No. 00089

Building, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Bodhisattva Vow, Religion, Priest
Jan 27 1990

1990.01.27-serial.00071

Religion, zen meditation, Demons, Liberation, Lovingkindness
Jan 27 1990

January 10th, 1990, Serial No. 00065

Passions, Consciousness, Religion
Jan 10 1990
Mt. Saviour Monastery

1990.MM.DD-serial.00075

Way-Seeking Mind, realization, Thich Nhat Hanh, Religion
1990

January 1990 talk, Serial No. 00298, Side A

Evil, Freedom, Religion
Jan 1990
Mt. Saviour Monastery

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