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Kid Zendo, Monkey: Hell Boy, The Bodhisattva

Saturday Lecture

Mary Mocine Berkeley Zen Center

Ethics in our Sangha

Monday Morning Talk

Gerry Oliva Berkeley Zen Center

Reflections on Autumn 2006: Trip to Japan by Grace and Participants

Saturday Lecture

Myoan Grace Schireson Berkeley Zen Center

Zen Reflections: Beginner's Insights

Edward Brown

Pinch Hitter

Tuesday, November 25, 1969

Evening Lecture
City Center, San Francisco

[Katagiri spoke before Suzuki. This portion has now been edited out]

Suzuki Roshi BCity Center

Unknown Date, Serial 00819

Bodhidharma and Buddha Nature

Taigen Dan Leighton Tassajara

Just Showing Up

Skillful Means, Gurus, authoritarians
Edward Brown Green Gulch Farm

Liberating Your Hands

Rumi, Health, Zazen
Edward Brown

Right Speech

The eight-fold path and its relationship to the precepts.

Ummon, Koan, Right Speech
Marc Lesser

Teachers and Students

Hakuin, Suzuki Roshi, Cooking
Edward Brown

It's Just Food!

Suzuki Roshi
Edward Brown Green Gulch Farm

Buddhist Visions of American Independence

Liberation, Interdependence, Freedom, Declaration of Independence
Taigen Dan Leighton Green Gulch Farm

Genjo Koan as a Verb

Dogen, Delusion
Taigen Dan Leighton City Center

Seijiki Ceremony - Relating to Death and Dying

Heading into winter; what is the most important thing at the end of your life? taking refuge; how are we also hungry ghosts; six realms.

Ceremony, Six Realms, Death-and-Dying
Meiya Wender

Breathing In, Breathing Out

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

Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Simplicity
Fu Schroeder Green Gulch

Buddhas And Sentient Beings Are Not Two

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
Fu Schroeder Green Gulch

Stopping and Listening

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 (Dalai Lama); parental...

Tenzo Kyokun, Big Mind, Birth-and-Death
Myogen Steve Stücky Green Gulch

Have Some Tea

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
Fu Schroeder Green Gulch

The Great Matter

How awareness of death, and our own mortality, spurs us to greater effort in practice.

Birth-and-Death, Impermanence
Zenkei Blanche Hartman City Center

The Water of Life

Kids' Talk, Rumi, Personality Types
Edward Brown

Practice Period

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

Practice Period, Dongshan, Dogen, Rumi
Kokyo Henkel Green Gulch Farm

The Robe of Liberation

Taking refuge; our true place; funzo; placing robe on the head; story from vinaya about silk.

Okesa, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Genzo-e
Shohaku Okumura AM

Alive or Dead?

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 but walk...

Teacher-and-Student, Birth-and-Death, Practice Period
Fu Schroeder Green Gulch

Practicing Patience

Kids' Talk, Paramitas
Taigen Dan Leighton Green Gulch Farm

Practicing Patience

Patience, Kids' Talk
Taigen Dan Leighton Green Gulch Farm

The Mind of the Great Sage of India

Satipattana Sutra, Theravada, Zazen
Ryushin Paul Haller City Center

Coming Of Age

Story of Parvati and ...(?); falling in love - never alone; the entire universe in ten directions is the true human body; Coming of Age Program; samsara/dukkha; parenting a teenager; the love of mother...

Parvati, Karma, Dukkha
Fu Schroeder Green Gulch Farm

The Bodhisattva Grandmother

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 conditions that are...

Deshan, Family Practice
Myogen Steve Stücky Green Gulch

Developing Confidence in Buddha Nature

Sunday talk.
Koan with the wild ducks; story of the king who questioned the Buddha; report on global warming.

Baizhang, Global Warming
Myogen Steve Stücky Green Gulch Farm

The Activity of Sesshin

Ryushin Paul Haller Tassajara

Grounding In The Immediate Experience

Mindfulness, Practice Period, Hindrances, Sesshin
Ryushin Paul Haller Tassajara

Morning, Noon, Evening

Katagiri Roshi, Charlotte Selver, Sensory Awareness
Edward Brown Green Gulch Farm

Settling Into Monastic Practice Together

Practice Period, Shingi, Monastic Practice, Sangha
Ryushin Paul Haller Tassajara

No Self

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

Bodhisattva Precepts, Ceremony, Samatha
Fu Schroeder Green Gulch

Looking Around For Wisdom

Online-Talks_Paramitas

Wisdom, Practice, Zazen, Suzuki Roshi
Richard Baker Johanneshof

Attentionality, not Conceptuality

Online-Talks_Paramitas

Torei, Yuanwu
Richard Baker Johanneshof

Finding Completeness

Online-Talks_Paramitas

Question-and-Answer
Richard Baker Johanneshof

Let The Forest Find You

Online-Talks_Paramitas

Paramitas, Lao Tzu
Richard Baker Johanneshof

The Fabric of Present Practice

Online-Talks_Paramitas

Yuanwu, Paramitas
Richard Baker Johanneshof

Perfection Through Interconnected Transformation

Online-Talks_Paramitas

Paramitas, Mumon Yamada
Richard Baker Johanneshof

Liberation from Passion

Lotus Sutra, Bodhisattva
Tenshin Reb Anderson MorningNo Abode Hermitage

Sit to Become Free of Sitting

Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Precepts, Bodhisattva
Tenshin Reb Anderson PMNo Abode Hermitage

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 5

Winter Sesshin Lecture No. 5
Wednesday, December 3, 1969
Tassajara

Sesshin, Bodhisattva, Dogen, Shobogenzo
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

The Ten Powers Of A Bodhisattva

Sunday Morning, August 25, 1968
[This date is probably incorrect. Earlier (July 21, 1968), Suzuki mentioned that he had already explained the ten powers of a bodhisattva. So this lecture was...

Bodhisattva, Dogen, Rinzai, Soto Zen
Suzuki Roshi Sokoji

Universal Practice for Laymen and Monks

Whatever you do is practice; be careful not to practice for the sake of the self. Zazen as a way to find realization and get used to realization. Whether priest or layperson, practice to develop buddha...

Practice, Zazen, Bodhisattva, Dogen, Sixth Patriarch
Suzuki Roshi Tassajara

Bodhisattva Practice

Saturday Lecture

Bodhisattva
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Manjushri, Avalokiteshvara, Samantabhadra

Saturday Lecture

Bodhisattva, Manjushri, Avalokiteshvara, Samantabhadra
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

One Buddha, Three Boddhisattvas: Practice is Everything

Saturday Lecture

Buddha, Bodhisattva, Practice
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Buddhism and War

The Six Realms and What Bodhisattvas Do in Each One, Saturday Lecture

Buddhism, War, Bodhisattva, Six Realms
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

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