Green Gulch Talks
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Three Characteristics of PhenomenaSerial: SF-01079 One-day sitting lecture: "no eyes, no ears..." Diamond Sutra, Platform Sutra Delusion, Emptiness, Platform Sutra, Bodhisattva Vow, New Year, Teacher-and-Student,... |
May 19 2007 Green Gulch |
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Sesshin as a Koan for the BodySerial: SF-00990 Sesshin Lecture: Easter/Buddha's Birthday; enlightenment experiences; dharmakaya; not doing anything; nirmanakaya; this is your life Sesshin, Enlightenment, San Quentin, Zazen, Buddha's Birthday, Birth-and-Death,... |
Apr 08 2007 Green Gulch |
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Sesshin LectureSerial: SF-00986 Architecture at GGF; Layman Pang; many sesshins; "gamble everything on love"; sesshin romance and the potentiality of the present moment; recognizing your Buddha... Sesshin, Layman Pang, Suzuki Roshi, Sandokai, Ordinary Mind, Buddha Mind, Attachment... |
Apr 06 2007 Green Gulch |
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Sesshin LectureSerial: SF-00994 Strategies, gaining ideas; "paying it forward"; close investigation of the self; Orpheus and Eurydice; Rilke; hidden anger - staying with the emotion Dongshan, Sesshin, Suzuki Roshi, Monkey Mind, Vow, Buddha Nature, Emotions, Manjushri... |
Apr 05 2007 Green Gulch |
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The Secrets of the BodySerial: SF-00993 Sesshin Lecture: great effort, no result; ritual, bowing; Diamond Sutra; boundaries Right Effort, Suzuki Roshi, Bodhisattva Vow, Buddha Nature, Bowing, Bodhisattva Way,... |
Apr 04 2007 Green Gulch |
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Sesshin PracticesSerial: SF-00992 Sesshin Lecture: ordinary mind is the Tao; practice of confession; guilt/shame; Self-Receiving and -Employing Samadhi Sesshin, Zhaozhou, Ordinary Mind, Suzuki Roshi, Right Effort, Posture, Buddha Nature... |
Apr 03 2007 Green Gulch |
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Living in Accord with Birth and DeathSerial: SF-00991 Sesshin Lecture: confirming Buddha nature; sesshin: gathering of heart/mind; what's the business under the patchwork robe?; story of Patacara Sesshin, Buddha Nature, Patacara, Birth-and-Death, Practice Period, Lineage, training... |
Apr 02 2007 Green Gulch |
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Being UncomfortableSerial: SF-01092 Sunday Lecture: What do we do when we become uncomfortable?; comfort - in body, mind, relationships - are focus of our consumerism; suffering = constant need to be fed;... Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period, Silence, Zendo, Suzuki Roshi, Zazen,... |
Mar 25 2007 Green Gulch |
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The Teachings of Chao ChouSerial: SF-00927 Sunday Lecture: the stories of Chao Chou; Hsin Hsin Ming - koan("I alone am the World-Honored One"); mu - cutting through yes and no; not holding to preferences Discrimination, Blue Cliff Record, Buddha's Birthday, Ordinary Mind, Buddha... |
Mar 11 2007 Green Gulch |
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Alignment With The Great WaySerial: SF-00944 Sunday Lecture - Children's Lecture: waging peace; taking up a practice Zhaozhou, Suzuki Roshi, Buddha Mind, Peace, Ordinary Mind, Zazen, Lineage, Posture,... |
Mar 04 2007 Green Gulch |
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One-Day Sitting LectureSerial: SF-00942 Deshan and the old woman; the distortions of sexism, racism, others; the bodhisattva grandmother; devotion to zazen; bringing attention and support to the natural states/bodily... Deshan, Family Practice, Dragons, Offering, Delusion, Heart Sutra, Mindfulness, Vow,... |
Feb 17 2007 Green Gulch |
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GenerositySerial: SF-04032 Sunday Lecture: cultivation of generosity for ourselves and others; training for dying by how we live; not wasting time; noticing the passing away; generosity before virtue... Religion, Instruction, Ceremony |
Dec 17 2006 Green Gulch |
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The Gift of NothingSerial: SF-00929 Sunday Lecture Children's Lecture: one who is not busy, one reality; the gift of nothing; sesshin, from Suzuki Roshi; our mind is the same as Buddha's; all things are... Buddha's Enlightenment, Sesshin, Koan, Daowu, Keizan, Suzuki Roshi, Nirvana... |
Dec 03 2006 Green Gulch |
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Hand Me MidnightSerial: SF-01102 Sunday Lecture: Daigan's trip to Bali; ritual; poems from Daigan's new book, "Hand Me Midnight" Offering, Ceremony, Funeral, Vow, Instruction, Lay, Karma, Priest |
Nov 19 2006 Green Gulch |
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Breathing In, Breathing OutSerial: SF-01146 Sunday Lecture: simplicity; story of Prajnatara in Malawi; the sun comes up, the sun goes down; connections; the four foundations of mindfulness; Navajo rain dance Mindfulness, Four Foundations, Book of Serenity, Four Noble Truths, Nirvana, Buddha... |
Oct 08 2006 Green Gulch |
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No SelfSerial: SF-00915 Sunday Lecture: zen sayings: "Who's dragging this corpse around?; sense of self - root of all suffering; need to understand no-self, not just conceptually; Buddhist tool kit... Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Karma, Ceremony, Happiness, Freedom, Doubt,... |
Sep 17 2006 Green Gulch |
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Buddhas And Sentient Beings Are Not TwoSerial: SF-01026 One-day sitting lecture: positive encouragement; nirvana; five hindrances; preliminary practices; three worlds; jhanas - benefits and ptifalls; Four Noble Truths; Mahayana... Hindrances, Nirvana, Concentration, Samadhi, Four Noble Truths, Liberation, Freedom,... |
Sep 16 2006 Green Gulch |
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Stopping and ListeningSerial: SF-00945 Sunday Lecture Children's Lecture: Baby beluga; why are you here?; Dogen's Three Minds: joyful mind, kind mind, big mind; mother's love as essence of spirituality (... Big Mind, Bell, Silence, Gratitude, Birth-and-Death, Zendo, Hate, Suzuki Roshi,... |
Sep 03 2006 Green Gulch |
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You Are Perfect Just As You AreSerial: SF-01065 Sunday Lecture: Good father/not a good father; improv - looking foolish and still feeling good; being fully yourself - responsible and flexible; simplicity of practice;... Conversation, Greed, Suzuki Roshi, Global Warming, Happiness, Rumi, Delusion, Anger,... |
Jun 18 2006 Green Gulch |
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Have Some TeaSerial: SF-00965 Sunday Lecture: "Have you been here before? Have some tea"; judgment and conduct; Four Noble Truths; Eightfold Path; ethics and etiquette Four Noble Truths, Right Effort, Three Treasures, Right Speech, Liberation, Renewal,... |
May 07 2006 Green Gulch |
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Gazing at Flowers on the Roof of HellSerial: SF-00914 Sunday Lecture: learning zazen with Soen Roshi in Jerusalem - interfaith practice; Easter - rebirth; Issa "Walking together on the roof of hell, looking at flowers"; Wendy's... Faith, Buddha's Birthday, Dragons, Peace, zen meditation, Gratitude, Don't... |
Apr 16 2006 Green Gulch |
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Yes!Serial: SF-01100 Sesshin Lecture: just sitting with no technique or theme; monk: what about when not carrying anything? Zhaozhou: put it down; Shakyamuni holding up the flower; zazen in... uchiyama, Zazen, Freedom, Duality, Impermanence, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen... |
Apr 02 2006 Green Gulch |
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Treasury of LightSerial: SF-00926 Sesshin Lecture: light can't be seen - only reflections off objects; Koun Ejo's Treasury of Light Samadhi; myth of Phaeton and Helios - driving the sun chariot; Yunmen: What is... Lotus Sutra, Bell, Delusion, Discrimination, Subject-and-Object, Zendo, Nirvana,... |
Mar 31 2006 Green Gulch |
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Alive or Dead?Serial: SF-01147 Sunday Lecture: Koan: "Alive or Dead" (Daowu's condolence call); mind fleas; confession; too busy; leap or die when at an impasse; story of Buddha and king - what else can I do... Teacher-and-Student, Anger, Don't Know Mind, Birth-and-Death, Practice Period,... |
Jan 29 2006 Green Gulch |
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NoSerial: SF-00963 Sunday Lecture: Milton's 'Paradise Lost'; myth of Narcissus; Four Noble Truths; Zhaozhou's "No": Marin Organizing Committee/Seniors for Peace ...Perfect Wisdom, Four Noble Truths, Buddha Nature, Peace, Freedom, Mill Valley,... |
Nov 20 2005 Green Gulch |
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No SelfSerial: SF-00971 One-day sitting lecture: Bodhisattva Initiation - dharma names; Buddha's second teaching - "No-self Characteristic Sutta"; shamata - posture instructions; Bodhisattva precepts... Bodhisattva Precepts, Ceremony, Precepts, Continuous Practice, Separation, Posture,... |
Sep 17 2005 Green Gulch |
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Birth and DeathSerial: SF-00970 Sunday Lecture - Children's Lecture: children's story - Amos and Boris; response to Hurrican Katrina; Story of king, knowing death is coming; vowing to live for the benefit of... Birth-and-Death, Vow, Four Noble Truths, First Principle, Lotus Sutra, Mill Valley,... |
Sep 04 2005 Green Gulch |
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Rootedness, Relatedness, ResponsibilitySerial: SF-01013 Wednesday Lecture: zen practice and ecology Don't Know Mind, Bell, Lotus Sutra, Separation, confusion, training, Peace,... |
Jul 27 2005 Green Gulch |
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Beans, Gratitude, GenerositySerial: SF-01014 Sunday Lecture - Children's Lecture Interdependence, confusion, Don't Know Mind, Commitment, Darkness and Light,... |
Jul 03 2005 Green Gulch |
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Natural LiberationSerial: SF-00916 Sunday Lecture: Buddha only teaches what leads to liberation; methods of liberation: 1 - Hinayana - renunciation; 2 - Mahayana- purification; 3 - Vajrayana - transformation; 4... Birth-and-Death, Liberation, Renunciation, Nirvana, Letting Go, Freedom, Samsara,... |
Jun 26 2005 Green Gulch |
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Wheel of Birth and DeathSerial: SF-00969 Sunday Lecture: Children's stories: earth moving around the sun is one year; "stone soup"; thinking and not thinking; Tibetan wheel of birth and death - six realms, twelve-fold... Peace, Dependent Origination, Six Realms, Demons, Birth-and-Death, Liberation,... |
Apr 10 2005 Green Gulch |
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Small PotatoesSerial: SF-01093 Sunday Lecture: "Just to be alive is enough" (Suzuki Roshi) - dissatisfaction even when we "have everything" - acedia/noonday sickness - spiritual dryness - "small potatoes" -... Three Treasures, Vow, Suzuki Roshi, Samsara, Discrimination, Patience, Separation,... |
Feb 27 2005 Green Gulch |
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StatusSerial: SF-01096 Sunday Lecture: status games in conversation, hard-wired, power, humor, reversal of status, Marx Bros, Don Rickles, court fools, Dr Zhivago, improv. changing of roles, status... Ego, Practice Period, Bell, Blue Cliff Record, Half-Smile, Mill Valley, Monastic... |
Dec 26 2004 Green Gulch |
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Sunday LectureSerial: 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,... |
Dec 19 2004 Green Gulch |
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Shuso TalkSerial: SF-01098 #shuso-talk Book of Serenity, Diversity, Practice Period, Happiness, Tassajara Zen Mountain... |
Nov 10 2004 Green Gulch |
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Four Motivations For PracticeSerial: SF-00928 Sunday Lecture: 1- rare to be born as human; 2 - impermanence of life; 3 - the effect of actions; 4 - suffering of cyclical existence. What is the practice? Letting go of fear... Liberation, Impermanence, Happiness, Aspects of Practice, Birth-and-Death, Letting Go... |
Oct 17 2004 Green Gulch |
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Sitting Under The Rose-Apple TreeSerial: SF-01016 Sunday Lecture Balance, Darkness and Light, Bell, Commitment, Letting Go, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi,... |
Oct 03 2004 Green Gulch |
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QuestioningSerial: SF-04082 Sunday Lecture: zen as a return to Buddha's natural questioning, rather than a religious institution with fancy temples, robes, statues, etc Ordinary Mind, Suzuki Roshi, Big Mind, Diversity, Intuition, Priest, Lay, Faith,... |
Sep 26 2004 Green Gulch |
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Breathing In and Breathing OutSerial: SF-00934 One-day sitting lecture: Book of Serenity Case 3, Anapanasati Sutta, Six Subtle Dharma Gates Mindfulness, Dragons, Lotus Sutra, Concentration, Book of Serenity, Bodhidharma,... |
Sep 18 2004 Green Gulch |
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Living The Good LifeSerial: SF-00933 Sunday Lecture Patience, Ordinary Mind, Mill Valley, Big Mind, Attachment, Commitment, Silence,... |
Aug 29 2004 Green Gulch |
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Making MistakesSerial: SF-04033 Sunday Lecture Vow, Daily Life, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi, training, Cultivation |
Aug 01 2004 Green Gulch |
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Sacred SpaceSerial: SF-01097 Sunday Lecture Manjushri, Emptiness, Half-Smile, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi, Birth-and-Death, Gratitude... |
Jul 25 2004 Green Gulch |
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Non-Thinking and the Twelve-Fold Chain of CausationSerial: SF-00968 Sunday Lecture Lotus Sutra, Instruction, Four Noble Truths, Posture, Peace, Letting Go, Separation,... |
Jul 18 2004 Green Gulch |
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Flop DogSerial: SF-01103 One-day sitting lecture: not accomplishing anything. Suzuki Roshi, Study Period, Zazen, resistance, Nirvana, uchiyama, Letting Go, Posture... |
Jul 17 2004 Green Gulch |
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Which Is The Real Seijo?Serial: SF-00967 One-day sitting lecture: when our "soul is split", what is true? Just sitting in the midst of samsara. Letting Go, Four Noble Truths, Suzuki Roshi, Big Mind, Subject-and-Object, Buddha... |
Jun 19 2004 Green Gulch |
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Citizenship - Sitting-in-zenSerial: SF-01053 Sunday Lecture: Three R's of eco-practice/stewardship of land and meditation practice: Rootedness, relatedness, responsibility. Moving below to an unseen place Peace, Gratitude, Mill Valley, Commitment, Manjushri, Letting Go, confusion,... |
Jun 13 2004 Green Gulch |
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Buddhism, Christianity, War and PeaceSerial: SF-00939 Sunday Lecture: Two types of training: compassion and wisdom (wisdom: the entire universe is the true human body); US history; Christianity (is evil 'outside' or not); Mara... First Principle, Hate, Evil, Faith, Soto Zen, Heart Sutra, Bodhidharma, Separation,... |
May 16 2004 Green Gulch |
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Sunday Lecture Suzuki Roshi, Vow, Bodhisattva Vow, Monastic Practice, Priest, Patience, Birth-and-... |
May 09 2004 Green Gulch |
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One-Day Sitting LectureSerial: 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,... |
Mar 20 2004 Green Gulch |
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Wednesday LectureSerial: 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, training,... |
Mar 17 2004 Green Gulch |