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Berkeley Zen Center Dharma Talks — 114 episodes

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Title
1

Love is All We Ever Talk About

2

Practicing Genjo Koan: The Koan of Everyday Life (Class 5 of 5)

3

Buckets of Loss and the Joy Train

4

Practicing Genjo Koan: The Koan of Everyday Life (Class 4 of 4)

5

Everything I Encounter is My Life Itself

6

Practicing Genjo Koan: The Koan of Everyday Life (Class 3 of 4)

7

No Water, No Moon

8

Practicing Genjo Koan: The Koan of Everyday Life (Class 2 of 4)

9

Nothing is Hidden

10

Practicing Genjo Koan: The Koan of Everyday Life (Class 1 of 4)

11

Genjokoan: Practice and Everyday Life

12

Inside the Flower Garland Sutra (Book Talk)

13

What Does it Mean to Be a Zen Priest?

14

Mindfulness in a Time of Muck

15

Miraculous Stories of the Buddha’s Birth

16

Waking Up: Awakening to Full Aliveness

17

The 10,000 Marks of Existence (Women’s Sit)

18

Fire, No Kings, and Being OK and Not-OK

19

Regulate Your (Unregulatable) Life

20

Practicing the Precepts in Dangerous Times

21

Practicing the Bodhisattva Precepts (Class 2 of 4)

22

Reflections on the Mountain Seat

23

Practicing the Bodhisattva Precepts (Class 1 of 4)

24

Prelude to the Mountain Seat

25

The Buddha’s Final Reflections on Life and Practice

26

The Heart in the Heart Sutra

27

The Heart of the Heart Sutra

28

Caring for Zazen

29

Appropriate Response (Class 4 of 4)

30

practicing with illness and the eight qualities of a great person

31

Appropriate Response (Class 3 of 4)

32

Buddha Sutras Are All the Worlds in the 10 Directions

33

Appropriate Response (Class 2 o f4)

34

I’m Nobody, Who Are You?

35

Appropriate Response (Class 1 of 4)

36

Not Wind, Not Flag

37

Satipatthana Sutta #4

38

Buddha’s Enlightenment

39

Rohatsu Sesshin Day 5: How to practice with what comes up

40

Satipatthana Sutta #3

41

I Love ZAZEN

42

Satipatthana Sutta #1

43

Thus Have I heard Sojun Roshi

44

Reflections on the Sandokai

45

Aspects Class 4 of 4 on The Sandokai

46

Aspects Class 3 of 4 on The Sandokai

47

Sangha Practice: Giver, Receiver and Gift

48

Feeding the Hungry Ghosts

49

Double-consciousness, racial melancholy, and meditation

50

Aspects Class 1 of 4 on the Sandokai

51

Sandokai: One Mind; difference and equality

52

Great Robe of Liberation

53

What is Time? Time is Love

54

Buddha Ancestors, Past, Present and Future

55

WHAT’S ZEN GOT TO DO WITH IT?

56

Sahā World

57

Work as a Practice of Care and Connection

58

Not Knowing

59

Engaging Today’s Chaos With A Beginner’s Mind

60

Remembering Hozan, and What Dogen would do now

61

the meditative factors of enlightenment

62

Remembering Ron Nestor

63

Dōkan – The Circle of the Way

64

Becoming Yourself

65

Difficult Conversations as Practice

66

Some practice with the Satipatthana Sutra

67

Taking Refuge

68

Awakening Together

69

Sixteen Bodhisattvas Enter the Bath BCR 78 #2

70

Zen Is Eternal Life

71

The Three Pure Precepts

72

Zazen As an Act of Devotion

73

Dogen’s “Power of the Robe”

74

Lotus Sutra Class 5 of 5

75

Practicing the Prajnaparamita Mantra

76

The Lotus Sutra Class Four of Five

77

A Fool for the Dharma

78

The Lotus Sutra Class Three of Five

79

16 Bodhisattvas Enter the Bath (Case 78 BCR)

80

The Lotus Sutra Class Two of Five

81

The Buddha who is Always Present and Always Teaching

82

The Lotus Sutra Class One of Five

83

The Three Refuges in Hard Times

84

Impermanence

85

Why we celebrate Buddha’s birthday

86

Talk on the Genjo Koan

87

How We Grow in Practice

88

Zen and the Pursuit of Happiness

89

Penetrating Anger as a Dharma Get in Turbulent Times

90

Impressions of Hozan

91

The Bodhisattva’s Four Methods of Guidance

92

Call Me By My True Names Class 3 of 3

93

Family Sangha Practice

94

Taking Refuge – Mutual Affinity with the Three Treasures

95

Call Me By My True Names Class 2 of 3

96

Uncertainty and Change as a Field of Practice

97

Feel It to Heal It

98

Call Me By My True Names Class 1 of 3

99

Dipping a Toe into Nagarjuna’s “Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way”

100

Foolish Sentient Beings

101

Falling in Fragility, Waking Up to Mutuality

102

Vows of Old Ancestor Eihei Dogen

103

Falling

104

Think Not Thinking

105

The Buddha’s Instructions for Sitting Meditation

106

Zen Therapy, Talk Therapy

107

Abbot’s Update

108

Choosing Love and Freedom

109

See As Is

110

Metta and Right Effort

111

Aspects Class 4 of 4 Ordinary Bodhisattvas

112

Ordinary Bodhisattva at the Election

113

Aspects Class 3 of 4 Ordinary Bodhisattvas

114

Aspects Class 2 of 4 Ordinary Bodhisattvas