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Buddhas And Sentient Beings Are Not Two

Serial: SF-01026

One-day sitting lecture: positive encouragement; nirvana; five hindrances; preliminary practices; three worlds; jhanas - benefits and ptifalls; Four Noble Truths; Mahayana...

Five Hindrances, Four Noble Truths, Mahayana, Dhyana, Hindrances, Nirvana,...
Sep 16 2006
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Stopping and Listening

Serial: 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 (...

Tenzo Kyokun, Big Mind, Birth-and-Death, Bell, Silence, Gratitude, Hate, Suzuki Roshi...
Sep 03 2006
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Non-Thinking and the Essential Art of Zazen

Intention, Practice, Study
Aug 17 2006
Morning
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It's Just Food!

Suzuki Roshi, Culture, Ordinary Mind, Money, Way-Seeking Mind, Lay
Jul 16 2006
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Buddhist Visions of American Independence

Liberation, Interdependence, Freedom, Declaration of Independence, Happiness, Enemies...
Jul 02 2006
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You Are Perfect Just As You Are

Serial: 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;...

Practice, Time, Suzuki Roshi
Jun 18 2006
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Compassionate Response: Joy Through Suffering

Pain, Suffering, Happiness
Jun 11 2006
Morning
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Have Some Tea

Serial: SF-00965

Sunday Lecture: "Have you been here before? Have some tea"; judgment and conduct; Four Noble Truths; Eightfold Path; ethics and etiquette

Joshu, Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path, Right Effort, Three Treasures, Right Speech...
May 07 2006
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Gazing at Flowers on the Roof of Hell

Serial: 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";...

Practice, Time, Sangha
Apr 16 2006
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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...

Practice, Time, Zazen
Apr 02 2006
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Treasury of Light

Serial: 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...

Buddha, Practice
Mar 31 2006
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Practice Period

Serial: SF-00034

Origins of PP, meaning of 'ango'; Dogen's essay; resistance; hermit Jim; Rumi poems.

Practice Period, Dongshan, Dogen, Rumi, Buddha Ancestors, Zazen, Tassajara Zen...
Feb 19 2006
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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...

Teacher-and-Student, Birth-and-Death, Practice Period, Anger, Don't Know Mind,...
Jan 29 2006
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Crisis: A Spiritual Turning Point

Spiritual life exists in crisis, which can be used as a turning point. To the extent that we recognize that where we sit right now is a turning point, we are able to understand the possibility of...

Transmission, Intuition, Emotions, Bell, Continuous Practice
Jan 08 2006
Part 2
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Crisis: A Spiritual Turning Point

Spiritual life exists in crisis, which can be used as a turning point. To the extent that we recognize that where we sit right now is a turning point, we are able to understand the possibility of...

Conversation, Faith, Transmission, Priest, War
Jan 08 2006
Part 1
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Tranquility Meets Insight in Zen

Time, Practice, Consciousness
Jan 07 2006
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Practicing Patience

Kids' Talk, Paramitas, Patience, Kshanti, Enthusiasm, Virya, Politics
Dec 04 2005
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Practicing Patience

Patience, Kids' Talk, Kshanti, Enthusiasm, Virya, Politics
Dec 04 2005
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Mahayana Abhidharma

Consciousness, Emptiness, Practice
Nov 21 2005
5
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Zhaozhou's No

Serial: SF-00963

Sunday Lecture: Milton's 'Paradise Lost'; myth of Narcissus; Four Noble Truths; Zhaozhou's "No": Marin Organizing Committee/Seniors for Peace

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Perfect Wisdom, Four Noble Truths, Buddha Nature, Peace, Freedom, Mill Valley,...
Nov 20 2005
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Mahayana Abhidharma

Buddha, Mahayana, Abhidharma
Nov 14 2005
4
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Mahayana Abhidharma

Practice, Buddha, Compassion
Nov 07 2005
3
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Mahayana Abhidharma

Consciousness, Impermanence, Abhidharma
Oct 31 2005
2
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Morning, Noon, Evening

Katagiri Roshi, Charlotte Selver, Sensory Awareness, Instruction, Posture, Sangha...
Oct 09 2005
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Mahayana Abhidharma

Consciousness, Bodhisattva, Sangha
Sep 28 2005
6
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No Self

Serial: SF-00971

One-day sitting lecture: Bodhisattva Initiation - dharma names; Buddha's second teaching - "No-self Characteristic Sutta"; shamata - posture instructions;...

Bodhisattva Precepts, Ceremony, Samatha, Precepts, Continuous Practice, Separation,...
Sep 17 2005
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Birth and Death

Serial: 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...

Kids' Talk, Birth-and-Death, First Principle, Vow, Four Noble Truths, Lotus...
Sep 04 2005
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Embracing Imperfection, Cultivating Wisdom

Tassajara, Paramitas, Patience, Addiction, Way-Seeking Mind, Impermanence
Jul 31 2005
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Rootedness, Relatedness, Responsibility

Serial: SF-01013

Wednesday Lecture: zen practice and ecology

Practice, Meditation, Work
Jul 27 2005
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Beans, Gratitude, Generosity

Serial: SF-01014

Sunday Lecture - Children's Lecture

Generosity, Meditation, Time
Jul 03 2005
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Natural Liberation

Serial: SF-00916

Sunday Lecture: Buddha only teaches what leads to liberation; methods of liberation: 1 - Hinayana - renunciation; 2 - Mahayana- purification; 3 - Vajrayana - transformation; 4...

Practice, Buddha, Liberation
Jun 26 2005
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Wheel of Birth and Death

Serial: 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
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Zen Of Business Administration

Serial: SF-00036

Sunday Talk.
Life at Green Gulch in the 1970s; giving, fearlessness; improv; no mistakes; parenting.

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Interview, Suzuki Roshi, Mill Valley, Daily Life, Koan...
Mar 20 2005
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Small Potatoes

Serial: 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" -...

Time, Poetry, Practice
Feb 27 2005
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Status

Serial: 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...

Time, Practice
Dec 26 2004
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Sunday Lecture

Serial: 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
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Stories of Interdependence and Fearlessness

Practice, Time, Buddha
Dec 05 2004
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Freedom from Religious Divisivness

Religion, Buddhism, Wisdom
Nov 21 2004
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Shamatha

Breath, Practice, Wisdom
Nov 20 2004
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Patience

Patience, Practice, Pain
Nov 17 2004
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Shuso Talk

Serial: SF-01098

#shuso-talk

Time, Pain, Practice
Nov 10 2004
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Receiving Help From Everyone Right Now

Practice, Letting Go, Patience
Nov 01 2004
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The Eightfold Path and Fearlessness

Practice, Buddha, Enlightenment
Oct 24 2004
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Four Motivations For Practice

Serial: 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, Birth-and-Death, Letting Go, Balance, Enthusiasm...
Oct 17 2004
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Sitting Under The Rose-Apple Tree

Serial: SF-01016

Sunday Lecture

Balance, Darkness-and-Light, Bell, Commitment, Letting Go, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi,...
Oct 03 2004
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Questioning

Serial: SF-04082

Sunday Lecture: zen as a return to Buddha's natural questioning, rather than a religious institution with fancy temples, robes, statues, etc

Time, Buddhism, Buddha
Sep 26 2004
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Breathing In and Breathing Out

Serial: 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
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Living The Good Life

Serial: SF-00933

Sunday Lecture

Patience, Ordinary Mind, Mill Valley, Big Mind, Attachment, Commitment, Silence,...
Aug 29 2004
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Making Mistakes

Serial: SF-04033

Sunday Lecture

Meditation, Time, Work
Aug 01 2004
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Sacred Space

Serial: SF-01097

Sunday Lecture

Time, Buddha, Wisdom
Jul 25 2004
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