Sojun Mel Weitsman Talks

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The Four Modes or Categories of Master Rinzai

Serial: BZ-00649B

Saturday Lecture

Rinzai, Mindfulness, Discrimination, Daily Life, Constancy, Aspects of Practice, Ego...
Mar 07 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Lay Ordination and Priest Ordination

Serial: BZ-00661A

Sesshin Day 1

Ordination, Priest-and-Lay, Priest, Ordination, Lay, Lay Practice, Karma, Commitment...
Mar 13 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Priest Practice and Lay Practice

Serial: BZ-00661B

Sesshin Day 2

Practice, Priest-and-Lay, Priest, Lay Practice, Priest-and-Lay, Lay, Ego, Enemies,...
Mar 14 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Non-Attachment as Distinct from Detachment

Serial: BZ-00662B

One-Day Sitting

Non-attachment, Attachment, Peace, Commitment, Passions, Pure Existence, Echo,...
Apr 10 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

April 17th, 1993, Serial No. 00112

Serial: BZ-00112

Lecture

Practice Period, Commitment, Daily Life, Tassajara, Gratitude, resistance,...
Apr 17 1993
Unknown Location

Practice Period: Renewing One's Commitment to Practice

Serial: BZ-00664B

One-Day Sitting

Practice Period, Daily Life, Commitment, Big Mind, Practice Period, Zoom, Building...
May 01 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Transmission of Light: The 38th Ancestor Seigen Gyoshi

Serial: BZ-00666B

Not Getting Caught in Stages, Saturday Lecture

Seigen Gyoshi, Liberation, Lineage, Buddha Nature, Bodhidharma, Current Events, Don...
May 22 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Transmission of the Light

Serial: SF-00041

Wednesday night teisho

Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature, Karmic Consequences, Karma, Attachment, Delusion,...
May 26 1993

Sozan's Poem: Dragons Sing in the Dry Wood

Serial: BZ-00667B

Saturday Lecture

Sozan, Precepts, Dragons, Continuous, Bodhisattva Precepts, Bodhisattva Way, Ego,...
Jun 05 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Fukanaazengi: Zazen Instructions

Serial: BZ-00653A

Sesshin Day 1

Fukanzazengi, Zazen, Posture, Concentration, Anger, Tassajara, Instruction, Doubt,...
Jun 09 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen's Zazengi II

Serial: BZ-00652A

Sesshin Day 3

Fukanzazengi, Concentration, Posture, Subject-and-Object, Observe, Samadhi, Daily...
Jun 11 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #19

Serial: BZ-00652B

What is the Way?, Sesshin Day 4

MM-19, Ordinary Mind, Hindrances, Doubt, Aspects of Practice, Humility, Enemies,...
Jun 12 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Practice and Boredom

Serial: BZ-00670A

Sesshin Day 5

Zazen, Stillness, Daily Life, Pure Existence, Doubt, Posture, soto, Separation,...
Jun 13 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Zuigan's Wake Up Call

Serial: BZ-00668A

Saturday Lecture

Zuigan, War, Greed, Daily Life, Oneness, Hate, Offering, Doubt, Anger, Karma, Ego...
Jul 10 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

July 11th, 1993, Serial No. 00113

Serial: BZ-00113

Sunday Lecture

War, Daily Life, Building, training
Jul 11 1993

The Spiritual Life is Not Separate from the Mundane

Serial: BZ-00668B

Saturday Lecture

Emptiness, Happiness, Mundane Life, Greed, Teacher-and-Student, Religion,...
Jul 18 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Tassajara Summer and Practice

Serial: BZ-00107

Lecture

Tassajara, Practice, Practice Period, Tassajara, Daily Life, Mundane Life,...
Jul 21 1993

1993 Parliament of World Religions

Serial: BZ-00628A

Seeking Common Ground, Sesshin Day 1

Religion, Current Events, Religion, American, Politics, Separation, Buddha Nature,...
Sep 04 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Obaku's Address to the Monks

Serial: BZ-00628B

There Are No Zen Teachers in This Realm, Sesshin Day 2

Obaku, Koan, training, Non-discrimination, Rinzai, Dragons, Bowing, Bell, American...
Sep 05 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

How to Do Chanting Practice

Serial: BZ-00629A

Sesshin Day 3

Chanting, Chanting, Bell, Heart Sutra, training, Lay Practice, Five Ranks, Posture,...
Sep 06 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #2

Serial: BZ-00657A

Joshu's "The Way Is Not Difficult", Saturday Lecture

Joshu, BCR-2, confusion, Attachment, Hate, Buddha Nature, Daily Life, Emotions,...
Sep 18 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Hongzhi: Cultivating the Empty Field

Serial: BZ-00656B

The Backward Step, The Upright Cauldron, Saturday Lecture

Hongzhi, Silent Illumination, Echo, Pure Existence, Anger, Instruction, Teacher-and-...
Oct 09 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #51

Serial: BZ-00658B

Seppo Star, Ganto Co-star; 2 monks, Supporting Actors, Saturday Lecture

Seppo, Ganto, BCR-51, confusion, Subject-and-Object, Teacher-and-Student, Bodhidharma...
Oct 23 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Segaki/Halloween

Serial: BZ-00659A

Saturday Lecture

Seijiki, Offering, Karma, Demons, Vows, Culture, Funeral, Sangha, Liberation,...
Oct 30 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Nagarajuna and Dogen on Buddhanature

Serial: BZ-00659B

Happiness, Reward, and Love, One-Day Sitting

Buddha Nature, Happiness, Love, Buddha Nature, Happiness, Birth-and-Death, Daily Life...
Nov 07 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Refining Your Life

Serial: BZ-01497A

Rohatsu Day 3

Tenzo Kyokun, Bell, Sanctuary, Emotions, Book of Serenity, soto, Discrimination,...
Dec 01 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

Mountain Practice, City Practice; Renunciation

Serial: BZ-00959B

Leaving for Tassajara, Saturday Lecture

Monastic Practice, Daily Life, Renunciation, Cultivation, Soto Zen, Aspects of...
Jan 08 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #10

Serial: BZ-00980A

Essence of Mind "Alone and Poor", Saturday Lecture

MM-10, Attachment, Greed, Practice Period, Buddha Nature, Tassajara, Culture,...
Feb 05 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Trikaya and Platform Sutra: Four Wisdoms

Serial: BZ-00965B

Three Bodies of Buddha pt. I, Sesshin Day 1

Trikaya, Platform Sutra, Wisdom, Ego, Platform Sutra, Samadhi, Big Mind, Hindrances,...
Mar 12 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Madyamika/Yogachara Schools of Emptiness/Synthesis

Serial: BZ-00964A

Three Bodies of Buddha pt. II, Sesshin Day 2

Madyamika, Trikaya, Emptiness, Yogachara, Religion, Emotions, Karma, Sixth Patriarch...
Mar 13 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

This Moment's Activity

Serial: BZ-00108A

Sesshin Day 1

Samadhi, Bell, Tassajara, Offering, Posture, Buddha Nature, Ego, Doubt, Building...
Mar 24 1994

Full Awareness of Breathing Sutra

Serial: BZ-00108B

Sesshin Day 2

Breath, Big Mind, Subject-and-Object, Mindfulness, Liberation, Four Foundations,...
Mar 25 1994

Uniting Body, Breath and Mind

Serial: BZ-00050A

Sesshin Day 3

Posture, Birth-and-Death, Right Effort, Demons, Samadhi, Building, Harmonizing,...
Mar 26 1994

Feelings

Serial: BZ-00050B

Sesshin Day 4

Emotions, Discrimination, Big Mind, Ego, Tassajara, Posture, Anger, Doubt
Mar 27 1994

We Are Like Water Seeking the Lowest Place

Serial: BZ-00737

Taking Joy in Impermanence, Sesshin Day 7

Impermanence, Ego, resistance, Impermanence, Liberation, Sixth Patriarch, Subject-and...
Mar 30 1994

Tozan's Poem

Serial: BZ-00962B

No Gap; Don't Objectify, Saturday Lecture

Tozan Ryokai, Subject-and-Object, Separation, Practice Period, Subject-and-Object,...
Apr 16 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Precepts

Serial: BZ-00961A

Saturday Lecture

Precepts, Precepts, Evil, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Ordination, Subject-and-Object,...
Apr 23 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Samadhi and Losing Oneself

Serial: BZ-00961B

Saturday Lecture

Samadhi, Pure Existence, Subject-and-Object, Practice Period, Samadhi, Bowing,...
May 01 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

May 5th, 1994, Serial No. 00738

Serial: BZ-00738

Lecture

Samadhi, Big Mind, Silence, Bell, Happiness, Continuous, Birth-and-Death,...
May 05 1994

Freedom, Commitment, Intention, Samadhi

Serial: BZ-00960A

Saturday Lecture

Freedom, Commitment, Intention, Samadhi, Commitment, Practice Period, Samadhi,...
May 07 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Four Foundations of Mindfulness #3

Serial: BZ-00944

Sesshin Day 3

Four Foundations, Equanimity, Subject-and-Object, Anger, Daily Life, Attachment,...
Jun 10 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Four Foundations of Mindfulness #4

Serial: BZ-00943B

Sesshin Day 5

Four Foundations, Observe, Liberation, Mindfulness, Impermanence, Continuous, Four...
Jun 12 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Summer Practice

Serial: BZ-00739

Lecture

Practice Period, Daily Life, Doubt, Don't Know Mind, Aspects of Practice, Non-...
Jul 13 1994

Blue Cliff Record: Case #50

Serial: BZ-00940A

Saturday Lecture

BCR-50, Samadhi, Doubt, Platform Sutra, confusion, Lotus Sutra, Birth-and-Death,...
Jul 16 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Returning to Our Intention

Serial: BZ-00938A

Saturday Lecture

Intention, Daily Life, Bowing, Posture, Continuous, Separation, Instruction,...
Aug 06 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Six Paramitas

Serial: BZ-00740

Lecture

War, Enthusiasm, Intuition, Interview, American, Building
Aug 16 1994

The Paramitas

Serial: BZ-00937B

Saturday Lecture

Paramitas, Enthusiasm, Precepts, Non-duality, Zazen Mind, Mindfulness, Patience,...
Aug 27 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

The Other Four Paramitas

Serial: BZ-00936A

Skillful Means, Spiritual Power, Aspiration, Knowledge, Sesshin Day 1

Paramitas, Skillful Means, Bodhisattva Vow, Karma, Four Noble Truths, Doubt, Vows,...
Sep 03 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #69

Serial: BZ-00936B

Nansen Draws a Circle, Sesshin Day 2

Nansen, BCR-69, Manjushri, Obstacles, New Year, Doubt, Gratitude, resistance, Observe...
Sep 04 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #69 Cont.

Serial: BZ-00935A

And Nyogen Senzaki's Commentary, Sesshin Day 3

BCR-69, Building, Lineage, Bell, Soto Zen, Bowing, confusion, Doubt, Rinzai,...
Sep 05 1994
Berkeley Zen Center

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