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Chasing Illusions, Finding Contentment

Chasing after our mental images of things; images of perfection and how reality intervenes; Richard Baker and the events of 1983; David Chadwick at Tassajara, and preserving Suzuki Roshi's legacy...

Edward Espe Brown

Awakening Authenticity in Zen Practice

Impossible to keep everybody happy with style of teaching; story of coming to Tassajara in 1966; fundraising for the monastery; not hiding negative parts of personality; the stories our hands reveal....

Edward Espe Brown

Zen Embodiment: Path to Freedom

Zen practice is doing what is expected whether you want to or not; learning to be in touch with our wounds.

Edward Espe Brown

Intersection of Zen and Clowning

Being a child in an orphanage; learning to meditate; sitting with negative tendencies; five fears outlined by Buddha;

Edward Espe Brown Tassajara

Awakening Through Zen and Poetry

Joining the Tassajara practice period; reminiscences of the first Tassajara practice period; kitchen practice and the Tenzokyokun;

Edward Espe Brown

Embracing Rain: Zen and Everyday Moments

Edward Espe Brown

Zen's Communal Heartbeat: A Legacy

Edward Espe Brown

Enlightenment in Everyday Moments

Edward Espe Brown

Forms as Catalysts for Transformation

Edward Espe Brown

Embracing Sorrow as a Pathway

Edward Espe Brown

The Teacher Within Each Learner

Edward Espe Brown

Awakening Through Mindful Simplicity

Edward Espe Brown

Full-Time Presence, Full-Time Truth

Edward Espe Brown

Wisdom and Love Beyond Perfection

Edward Espe Brown

Zen Living: Presence in Every Moment

Edward Espe Brown

Awakening Presence Through Mindful Touch

Edward Espe Brown

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Rise and Flour: Expanding Artisan Baking

Edward Espe Brown

Navigating Wholesome and Unwholesome Dharmas

Edward Espe Brown

Veils of Delusion: Bridging Minds

Edward Espe Brown

Abhidharma: Unlocking Mindfulness Through Analysis

Edward Espe Brown

Consciousness Unveiled: Layers of Perception

Edward Espe Brown

Zen and Abhidharma: Pathways to Enlightenment

Edward Espe Brown

Navigating Consciousness Through Right Views

Edward Espe Brown

The Ten Thousand Idiots

Edward Espe Brown Spirit Rock

Nurturing Awareness in Modern Meditation

Edward Espe Brown

Zen's Journey: Work as Practice

Edward Espe Brown

Zen of Cooking: Embrace Imperfection

Edward Espe Brown

Heart Sutra: Gate, Gate, Paragate: The Mantra of Your Life

Sesshin Day 5

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Love: The Unlimited Abode

Saturday Lecture

Love
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Meal Chants

Saturday Lecture

Instruction, Chanting
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Prajna Paramita: Four Samadhis

Sesshin Day 4

Samadhi
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

The Law of Karma: Most Important in Buddhism

Saturday Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Bodhisattva Mind

Saturday Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Bowing to Our Dharmakaya Nature

Saturday Lecture

Dharmakaya
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

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Sojun Mel Weitsman

Finding Yourself in Every Moment: Renewing Our Practice

Saturday Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Organic Gardening and Composting: Interdependency and Impermanence

Saturday Lecture

Interdependence, Impermanence, Mindfulness
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Bodhisattva Ceremony: Renewing Our Way

Saturday Lecture

Bodhisattva Ceremony
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record Case #43: How Can We Avoid Heat and Cold?

Saturday Lecture

BCR-43

Koan
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Vigor During Sesshin: Soto and Rinzai Practice Compared

Sesshin Day 3

Sesshin, Soto Zen, Rinzai
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Fundraising for the New Zendo: What is Our Basis?

Sesshin Day 4

Fundraising, Sangha
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Essence of Mind: The Fifth Paramita, Subject and Object, Buddhanature

Saturday Lecture

Subject-and-Object, Duality, Buddha Nature
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Problems in Practice: Calm Mind in Daily Activities

Saturday Lecture

Daily Life
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Effort, The Fourth Paramita (Virya): Blue Cliff Record: Case #44, "Beating the Drum"

Saturday Lecture

 

Virya, Koan
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Bodhisattva Ceremony Recording

Recording of BZC's monthly Bodhisattva Ceremony. The Kokyo is Fran Tribe. 

Bodhisattva Ceremony
Berkeley Zen Center

Practicing Wholeheartedly with Change

Saturday lecture. 

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

The Meaning of Devotion

Saturday Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Dana: The First Paramita

Saturday Lecture

Dana Paramita
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Fukudo Lesson

Instruction

Instruction, Doanryo
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

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