Book of Serenity Talks

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The Gift of Nothing

Serial: SF-00929

Sunday Lecture Children's Lecture: one who is not busy, one reality; the gift of nothing; sesshin, from Suzuki Roshi; our mind is the same as Buddha's; all things are...

Suzuki Roshi, Nirvana Sutra, Book of Serenity, Soto Zen, Heart Sutra, Freedom,...
Dec 03 2006
Green Gulch

Breathing In, Breathing Out

Serial: SF-01146

Sunday Lecture: simplicity; story of Prajnatara in Malawi; the sun comes up, the sun goes down; connections; the four foundations of mindfulness; Navajo rain dance

Mindfulness, Four Foundations, Book of Serenity, Four Noble Truths, Nirvana, Buddha...
Oct 08 2006
Green Gulch

Shuso Talk

Serial: SF-01923

#shuso-talk Sesshin 2 Day 3

Book of Serenity, Suzuki Roshi, Instruction, Offering, Buddha Ancestors, Manjushri,...
Feb 22 2005
Tassajara

Shuso Talk

Serial: SF-01098

#shuso-talk

Book of Serenity, Diversity, Practice Period, Happiness, Tassajara, Ordination, Karma...
Nov 10 2004
Green Gulch

Breathing In and Breathing Out

Serial: SF-00934

One-day sitting lecture: Book of Serenity Case 3, Anapanasati Sutta, Six Subtle Dharma Gates

Mindfulness, Dragons, Lotus Sutra, Concentration, Book of Serenity, Bodhidharma,...
Sep 18 2004
Green Gulch

Sesshin Lecture

Four Noble Truths, Priest, Ordinary Mind, Intimacy, Hate, Delusion, Practice Period,...
Oct 26 2003
Tassajara

One-day Sitting Lecture

Serial: SF-01018

Lotus Sutra (Heart Sutra), seals our mind with Buddha's mind, basics of the middle way are covered (in the Sutra of Innumerable Meanings), power of joy and compassion, devotion...

Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Nirvana, Four Noble...
May 11 2002
Green Gulch

Transmission of the Light Class

Serial: SF-01086

Tuesday: Breaking through the conceptual veil, Kasyapa, nothing to be transmitted, investigate the conventional world to the limit, Kukkutapada

Transmission, realization, Sixth Patriarch, Book of Serenity, Ceremony, Monastic...
May 07 2002
Green Gulch

Fukanzazengi Class

Serial: SF-03652

Monday Class

Instruction, Book of Serenity, realization, Mahayana, Posture, Balance, Karma, Faith...
Mar 06 2000
Green Gulch

January Practice Period Class

Karmic Consciousness, Heart Sutra, realization, Birth-and-Death, Platform Sutra,...
Jan 11 2000
Green Gulch

Wednesday Lecture

Study Period, Birth-and-Death, Book of Serenity, Mill Valley, Buddha Mind, Enemies,...
Aug 04 1999
Green Gulch

1998.12.16-serial.00058

Suzuki Roshi, Transmission, Lineage, Priest, Blue Cliff Record, Tassajara, soto,...
Dec 16 1998
City Center

Rohatsu

Manjushri, Attachment, Faith, Observe, Separation, Book of Serenity, Emotions, Doubt...
Dec 02 1998
City Center

Sunday Lecture

Anger, Book of Serenity, Karma, Precepts, Evil, Duality, Emptiness, Offering, Fasting...
Oct 04 1998
Green Gulch

Turning Toward The Dark

Serial: SF-03641

Sesshin Lecture: The activity is below the ground - the re-enactment of Buddha's enlightenment story

Birth-and-Death, Posture, resistance, Dragons, Book of Serenity, Monastic Practice,...
Dec 01 1997
Green Gulch

Blue Cliff Record Class

Serial: SF-03092

Case 10

Silence, Birth-and-Death, Interview, Rinzai, soto, Funeral, Book of Serenity, Soto...
Oct 21 1997
Green Gulch

What Is The Ember You Carry With You?

Serial: SF-00086

One Day Sit

Practice Period, Blue Cliff Record, Non-duality, Fox, Bodhidharma, First Principle,...
Sep 27 1997

Dharma As Medicine

Serial: SF-03621

Sunday Lecture, children's talk: good medicine (cabin) anything remarkable, beautiful, unique, like a gift from nature that anyone was able to see or feel; in quiet you are...

Book of Serenity, Impermanence, Triple Treasure, realization, true dharma, Samadhi,...
Jun 01 1997
Green Gulch

Saturday Lecture

Passions, Religion, Light-and-Darkness, Suzuki Roshi, Politics, Platform Sutra, Zazen...
Aug 17 1996
City Center

Causes and Conditions

Serial: SF-03660

One-day sitting

Emptiness, Posture, Book of Serenity, Subject-and-Object, realization, Buddha Nature...
Oct 14 1995
Green Gulch

Bodhidharma

Serial: SF-03627

Sunday Lecture

Forgiveness, Triple Treasure, Mindfulness, Bodhidharma, Emptiness, Precepts, Blue...
Oct 01 1995
Green Gulch

Five Attributes of a Teacher

Serial: SF-03218

One-day sitting

Book of Serenity, Teacher-and-Student, Humility, Blue Cliff Record, Letting Go,...
Jul 15 1995
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Book of Serenity, Mill Valley, Gratitude, Buddha Ancestors, Lotus Sutra, Patience,...
Jun 07 1992
Green Gulch