Talks

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The Three Treasures

Saturday Lecture

Three Treasures, Precepts, Effort
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

The Stages of Practice I

One-Day Sitting

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

The Stages of Practice II

Saturday Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Learning How To Sit

Saturday Lecture

Technique, Posture, Instruction, Total involvement, Complete activity
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Right Effort and Right Thought

Saturday Lecture

Right Effort, Right Thought, Noble Eightfold Path, Study, Focus
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

The Meaning of Study Period

Lecture, 30 Day Study Period

Study Period
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

The Life of a Zen Monk

Saturday Lecture

Freedom, Daily Life, Water, Unsui
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Study Period and Sesshin

Saturday Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

What Is Our Practice?

Suzuki Roshi

Japanese Zen Practice in America

Meditation, Alan Watts, Buddha Nature
Phillip Whalen

Blue Cliff Record: Case #17

"Sitting Long and Getting Tired", Sesshin Day 5

BCR-17

 

Composure, Zazen, Koan
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Talk on the "Women in Buddhism" Conference

Fran Tribe

The Heart of Practice Prajna as Compassionate Wisdom

Remembering our deepest intention; noble friendship is the entirety of spiritual life; connection between Berkeley ZC and San Francisco ZC.

Ananda Dalenberg

Women's Practice

Zenkei Blanche Hartman

Meeting with Berkeley Zen Center

Deborah Hopkinson

Blue Cliff Record: Case #80

Does a Baby Have the 6th Consciousness?, Saturday Lecture

Consciousness, Storehouse Consciousness
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #35

Manjushri's "3's" and "3's"; Nondiscrimination, Saturday Lecture

BCR-35

 

Non-discrimination, Koan
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Zazen

Posture, Attention, Resistance, Naming, One-Day Sitting

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Work

Saturday Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #19

"Nansen's Everyday Mind in the Way", Saturday Lecture

MM-19

 

Nansen, Absolute-and-Relative, Koan
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Joshu: Wash Your Bowls

On Handling Activity, Saturday Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

The Arms Race: Peace, Nonviolence, Aggression

Sojun Mel Weitsman

Work Sesshin: Building the New Zendo

Sojun Mel Weitsman

Zen Practice, Psychotherapy, and Feminism

Sonya Margolis

Japanese Practice/American Practice: Differences

Saturday Lecture

Japan, American, Lay Practice, Family Practice
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Natural Zen and Buddhist Zen

Saturday Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Pre-Practice versus Practice

The "Gap", Saturday Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Emptiness Means Interdependence

Sesshin Day 1

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Relationship Between Teacher and Student

Saturday Lecture

Teacher-and-Student
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

The Self-Centered Meets the Absolute

Sesshin Day 2

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Women in Buddhism, Ordination

Ane Pema Chödrön

Dogen's Fukanzazengi and Practice Realization

Saturday Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Practice is Enlightenment, Ridgepole Ceremony

Saturday Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Scientific Validation of Zazen

Saturday Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Gakudo Yojin-Shu Section 5

Need to Find True Teacher, Saturday Lecture

Gakudo Yojin-Shu
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Transient Nature of All Things and No-Self

Saturday Lecture

No-Self, Impermanence
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Ordination and the Bodhisattva Way

Saturday Lecture

Bodhisattva Vow
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Posture: Gravity and Spirit

Saturday Lecture

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Mumonkan: Case #35 -- Seijo's Soul Separated

Unifying Body, Mind and the Way, Saturday Lecture

MM-35

 

Koan
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Shakuhachi Blowing

Music

Robert Grouse

Gakudo Yojin-Shu Section 8

Conduct (understanding) Zazen Mind, Saturday Lecture

Gakudo Yojin-Shu
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Home for the Holidays Practicing Our Koan: "What Is This?"

Sojun Mel Weitsman

Importance of Attention to Form in Zen Practice

Sesshin Day 1

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Importance of Attention to Form in Zen Practice

Sesshin Day 2

Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Composure: The Third Paramita

Saturday Lecture

Paramitas, Kshanti
Sojun Mel Weitsman Berkeley Zen Center

Bodhidharma Listening to the Cries of the World

Avalokiteshvara clearly seeing the emptiness of five skandhas; listening to the cries of the world, the suffering of beings.

Compassion, Suffering, Emptiness
Tenshin Reb Anderson PMNo Abode Hermitage

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