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The Nature of the Precepts

Robert Aitken Roshi 1

Way Seeking Mind

The route to becoming a zen monk; growing up Jewish and hanging out with the beats; meeting Suzuki Roshi.

Monastic Practice, Japan, Way-Seeking Mind
Sojun Mel Weitsman 2Tassajara

Women in Japanese Soto Zen

Author reading from her book on the subject.

Paula Arai

Application of the Practice - Feminism and Buddhism in the Diamond Sangha

Susan Murcott 2

Application of the Practice - Feminism and Buddhism in the Diamond Sangha

Susan Murcott 1

Practice Life

Talk given at Berkeley per introduction.

Joko Beck

The Meeting of American Culture and Buddhism

Lecture Series

Jane Hirshfield City Center

Poetry, Love, and Spiritual Rebellion

Allen Ginsberg

Recollections of Early Zen

Gary Snyder 1 of 3Green Gulch Farm

Beyond Belief: Unveiling Hidden Truths

Differences between exoteric and esoteric religious traditions.

Huston Smith 1

The Monastic Tradition

How to deal with peak experiences in our lives.

Brother David Steindl-Rast

Hakuin

Kazuaki Tanahashi Tassajara

Tokubetsu Sesshin

Genpo Merzel

Tokubetsu Sesshin

Maezumi Roshi

Women in Buddhism

Class

Eijun Linda Cutts 1 of 6Green Gulch Farm

To Be Oneself

Sunday talk; what does that mean - what's that? Finding out what this means is a vast undertaking.

Eijun Linda Cutts Green Gulch Farm

Mindfulness: Embracing Imperfection with Compassion

Edward Espe Brown

Zen: Embracing Life's Inherent Challenges

Edward Espe Brown

Presence in Everyday Acts

Edward Espe Brown

Mindful Living: Zen in Action

Edward Espe Brown

Mindful Living Through Genuine Engagement

Edward Espe Brown

It's Just Food!

Suzuki Roshi, Dogen, Tassajara
Edward Espe Brown Green Gulch Farm

Embracing Life's Ordinary Wonder

Edward Espe Brown

Shifting from Approval to Love

Edward Espe Brown

Embracing Sorrow as a Pathway

Edward Espe Brown

Practicing Wholeheartedly with Change

Saturday lecture. 

Attachment, Lay Practice, Bendowa, Impermanence
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Silent Sitting & Social Action

Zen students often ask how our practice of silence and stillness relates to injustice and our environmental crisis. In this class we explore this question and study the intimate interplay of beneficial...

YRB-2018-Fall
Tenshin Reb Anderson 5 of 7The Yoga Room

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-11

October 1968
New version uploaded, should help with transcript

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Series 2, Talk 11Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-13

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra
Suzuki Roshi Series 2, Talk 13Tassajara

How should we establish our system of practice in San Francisco

Tuesday Evening, June 17, 1969
San Francisco

Just sit, and follow the teacher's instruction. Story of four kinds of horse. Humans go to the moon, but don't understand themselves....

Rinzai, Soto Zen, Dogen, Zazen
Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

Observation of Precepts and Practice of Zazen is Same Thing

Sesshin Lecture No. 1
Saturday, August 1, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Precepts
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Shosan Ceremony

Tassajara
September, 1969

[Beginning of ceremony not recorded.]

Sesshin, Shosan
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

We Should Not Stick to Words or Rules Too Much

Sandokai Lecture XII: “It Is Not Always So”
Saturday, July 4, 1970
Tassajara

[This lecture is concerned with the following lines of the Sandokai:

Koto wo uke te wa subekaraku...

Branching Streams, Sandokai
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Sewing Sesshin

Sunday, June 20, 1971
Sesshin Lecture No. ____
San Francisco

Sesshin, Okesa, Dogen
Suzuki Roshi City Center

Because Of Our Many Desires, We Do Not Have Freedom

Freedom, Desire, Changsha
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

San-Pachi-Nenju

Ceremony, First Principle
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

The Way-Seeking Mind

March sesshin, only 1pm lecture. Evening lecture goofed up during recording.
SR 007

Dogen
Suzuki Roshi ASokoji

Eight Ways of an Enlightened Person I

Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Introduction to Study Period

Saturday Lecture

Study Period
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Title unknown

Sesshin lecture

Arnie Kotler Berkeley Zen Center

Practicing Enlightenment Without Desiring Enlightenment

Saturday Lecture

Enlightenment
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

The Dream World: Realm of Desire versus Reality

One-Day Sitting

Desire, Daily Life
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Making the Commitment to Practice

Saturday Lecture

Commitment
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Wanting to Sit/Should Sit

Sesshin Day 1

Zazen
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Difficulties in Daily Life Practice

Saturday Lecture

Daily Life
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Pre-Mountain Seat Ceremony: Questions and Comments

Saturday Lecture

Mountain Seat Ceremony
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Zaike Tokudo: The Meaning of Ordination

Saturday Lecture

Zaike Tokudo
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

June 1st, 1985, Serial No. 00429, Side B

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Study Period (J. Ango)

Saturday Lecture

Study Period, Ango
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

The Five Hindrances

Saturday Lecture

Hindrances
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

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