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Berkeley Zen Center Dharma Talks — 114 episodes
Love is All We Ever Talk About
Practicing Genjo Koan: The Koan of Everyday Life (Class 5 of 5)
Buckets of Loss and the Joy Train
Practicing Genjo Koan: The Koan of Everyday Life (Class 4 of 4)
Everything I Encounter is My Life Itself
Practicing Genjo Koan: The Koan of Everyday Life (Class 3 of 4)
No Water, No Moon
Practicing Genjo Koan: The Koan of Everyday Life (Class 2 of 4)
Nothing is Hidden
Practicing Genjo Koan: The Koan of Everyday Life (Class 1 of 4)
Genjokoan: Practice and Everyday Life
Inside the Flower Garland Sutra (Book Talk)
What Does it Mean to Be a Zen Priest?
Mindfulness in a Time of Muck
Miraculous Stories of the Buddha’s Birth
Waking Up: Awakening to Full Aliveness
The 10,000 Marks of Existence (Women’s Sit)
Fire, No Kings, and Being OK and Not-OK
Regulate Your (Unregulatable) Life
Practicing the Precepts in Dangerous Times
Practicing the Bodhisattva Precepts (Class 2 of 4)
Reflections on the Mountain Seat
Practicing the Bodhisattva Precepts (Class 1 of 4)
Prelude to the Mountain Seat
The Buddha’s Final Reflections on Life and Practice
The Heart in the Heart Sutra
The Heart of the Heart Sutra
Caring for Zazen
Appropriate Response (Class 4 of 4)
practicing with illness and the eight qualities of a great person
Appropriate Response (Class 3 of 4)
Buddha Sutras Are All the Worlds in the 10 Directions
Appropriate Response (Class 2 o f4)
I’m Nobody, Who Are You?
Appropriate Response (Class 1 of 4)
Not Wind, Not Flag
Satipatthana Sutta #4
Buddha’s Enlightenment
Rohatsu Sesshin Day 5: How to practice with what comes up
Satipatthana Sutta #3
I Love ZAZEN
Satipatthana Sutta #1
Thus Have I heard Sojun Roshi
Reflections on the Sandokai
Aspects Class 4 of 4 on The Sandokai
Aspects Class 3 of 4 on The Sandokai
Sangha Practice: Giver, Receiver and Gift
Feeding the Hungry Ghosts
Double-consciousness, racial melancholy, and meditation
Aspects Class 1 of 4 on the Sandokai
Sandokai: One Mind; difference and equality
Great Robe of Liberation
What is Time? Time is Love
Buddha Ancestors, Past, Present and Future
WHAT’S ZEN GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Sahā World
Work as a Practice of Care and Connection
Not Knowing
Engaging Today’s Chaos With A Beginner’s Mind
Remembering Hozan, and What Dogen would do now
the meditative factors of enlightenment
Remembering Ron Nestor
Dōkan – The Circle of the Way
Becoming Yourself
Difficult Conversations as Practice
Some practice with the Satipatthana Sutra
Taking Refuge
Awakening Together
Sixteen Bodhisattvas Enter the Bath BCR 78 #2
Zen Is Eternal Life
The Three Pure Precepts
Zazen As an Act of Devotion
Dogen’s “Power of the Robe”
Lotus Sutra Class 5 of 5
Practicing the Prajnaparamita Mantra
The Lotus Sutra Class Four of Five
A Fool for the Dharma
The Lotus Sutra Class Three of Five
16 Bodhisattvas Enter the Bath (Case 78 BCR)
The Lotus Sutra Class Two of Five
The Buddha who is Always Present and Always Teaching
The Lotus Sutra Class One of Five
The Three Refuges in Hard Times
Impermanence
Why we celebrate Buddha’s birthday
Talk on the Genjo Koan
How We Grow in Practice
Zen and the Pursuit of Happiness
Penetrating Anger as a Dharma Get in Turbulent Times
Impressions of Hozan
The Bodhisattva’s Four Methods of Guidance
Call Me By My True Names Class 3 of 3
Family Sangha Practice
Taking Refuge – Mutual Affinity with the Three Treasures
Call Me By My True Names Class 2 of 3
Uncertainty and Change as a Field of Practice
Feel It to Heal It
Call Me By My True Names Class 1 of 3
Dipping a Toe into Nagarjuna’s “Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way”
Foolish Sentient Beings
Falling in Fragility, Waking Up to Mutuality
Vows of Old Ancestor Eihei Dogen
Falling
Think Not Thinking
The Buddha’s Instructions for Sitting Meditation
Zen Therapy, Talk Therapy
Abbot’s Update
Choosing Love and Freedom
See As Is
Metta and Right Effort
Aspects Class 4 of 4 Ordinary Bodhisattvas
Ordinary Bodhisattva at the Election
Aspects Class 3 of 4 Ordinary Bodhisattvas
Aspects Class 2 of 4 Ordinary Bodhisattvas