Ceremony Talks

A ceremony (UK: , US: ) is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion.

The word may be of Etruscan origin, via the Latin caerimonia.

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Title	Speaker	Date
Being Uncomfortable Serial: SF-01092 Sunday Lecture: What do we do when we become uncomfortable?; comfort - in body, mind, relationships - are focus of our consumerism; suffering = constant need to be fed;... Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period, Silence, Zendo, Suzuki Roshi, Zazen,...	Daigan Lueck	Mar 25 2007 Green Gulch
Generosity Serial: SF-04032 Sunday Lecture: cultivation of generosity for ourselves and others; training for dying by how we live; not wasting time; noticing the passing away; generosity before virtue... Religion, Instruction, Ceremony	Yvonne Rand	Dec 17 2006 Green Gulch
No Self Serial: SF-00915 Sunday Lecture: zen sayings: "Who's dragging this corpse around?; sense of self - root of all suffering; need to understand no-self, not just conceptually; Buddhist tool kit... Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Karma, Ceremony, Happiness, Freedom, Doubt,...	Kokyo Henkel	Sep 17 2006 Green Gulch
The Great Matter Serial: SF-00085 How awareness of death, and our own mortality, spurs us to greater effort in practice. Birth-and-Death, Suzuki Roshi, Impermanence, Gratitude, Heart Sutra, Ceremony,...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Mar 11 2006 City Center
Practice Period Serial: SF-00034 Origins of PP, meaning of 'ango'; Dogen's essay; resistance; hermit Jim; Rumi poems. Practice Period, Buddha Ancestors, Zazen, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, resistance,...	Kokyo Henkel	Feb 19 2006
Zen Work: A Path to Balance Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Lay Practice, Faith, Commitment,...	Rosalie Curtis	Jan 25 2006 Unknown
Sesshin Lecture Serial: SF-01000 Day 1 Zendo Lecture Sanctuary, Karma, Ceremony, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Demons,...	Kosho McCall	Dec 10 2005 Tassajara
Shuso Talk Serial: SF-04732 #shuso-talk Sanctuary, Bodhidharma, Karma, Ceremony, Practice Period, Instruction, Suzuki Roshi,...	John Grimes	Dec 05 2005 Tassajara
No Self Serial: SF-00971 One-day sitting lecture: Bodhisattva Initiation - dharma names; Buddha's second teaching - "No-self Characteristic Sutta"; shamata - posture instructions; Bodhisattva precepts... Bodhisattva Precepts, Ceremony, Precepts, Continuous Practice, Separation, Posture,...	Fu Schroeder	Sep 17 2005 Green Gulch
Mindfulness Embraced Through Mistakes Ceremony, Zendo, Priest, Suzuki Roshi, Bowing, Continuous Practice, Commitment...	Rosalie Curtis	Jun 29 2005 Unknown
Natural Liberation Serial: SF-00916 Sunday Lecture: Buddha only teaches what leads to liberation; methods of liberation: 1 - Hinayana - renunciation; 2 - Mahayana- purification; 3 - Vajrayana - transformation; 4... Birth-and-Death, Liberation, Renunciation, Nirvana, Letting Go, Freedom, Samsara,...	Kokyo Henkel	Jun 26 2005 Green Gulch
Natural Liberation Serial: SF-00035 Sunday talk. Buddha teaches liberation; methods of liberation; birth and death is itself nirvana. Birth-and-Death, Liberation, Renunciation, Nirvana, Freedom, Letting Go, Samsara,...	Kokyo Henkel	Jun 26 2005
On Dharma Transmission Serial: SF-03544 Zendo Lecture - duplicate Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Ceremony, Practice Period, Concentration, Priest,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 02 2005 Tassajara
On Dharma Transmission Serial: SF-03486 Zendo Lecture - duplicate Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Ceremony, Practice Period, Concentration, Priest,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 02 2005 Tassajara
On Dharma Transmission Serial: SF-03519 Zendo Lecture Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Ceremony, Practice Period, Concentration, Priest,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 02 2005 Tassajara
Way-Seeking Mind Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Lay Practice, Suzuki Roshi, Doubt, Humility,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 15 2005 Tassajara
Sunday Lecture Serial: SF-00940 World's largest ball of twine, snobbery, insight, calming our minds, shamata - tranquility practce, Dhammapada, monuments to warfare, GGF farm and kids, hate crime and Tam High... Vow, Precepts, Hate, Non-violence, Bodhisattva Precepts, Intimacy, Interview,...	Fu Schroeder	Dec 19 2004 Green Gulch
Lotus Sutra Class Serial: SF-03549 Dining Room Class Lotus Sutra, Ceremony, Perfect Wisdom, Buddha Nature, Nirvana, Zazen, Practice Period...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 03 2004 Tassajara
Sesshin Lecture Serial: SF-03545 First Sesshin, Zendo Lecture Ceremony, Offering, Lotus Sutra, Suzuki Roshi, Chanting, Branching Streams, Karma,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Oct 29 2004 Tassajara
Shuso Talk Serial: SF-01897 #shuso-talk Practice Period, training, Peace, Commitment, New Year, Politics, Birth-and-Death,...	Jisan Tova Green	Oct 13 2004 Tassajara
Sitting Under The Rose-Apple Tree Serial: SF-01016 Sunday Lecture Balance, Darkness and Light, Bell, Commitment, Letting Go, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi,...	Wendy Johnson	Oct 03 2004 Green Gulch
Universal Flow in Zen Practice Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Suzuki Roshi, Balance, Karma, Hate, Zazen, Vow, Priest...	Leslie James	Jun 08 2004 Tassajara
Embracing Suffering for Inner Transformation Passions, Ceremony, Ego, Intuition, Zazen, Buddha Nature, Skandas, Delusion,...	Kosho McCall	May 30 2004 Tassajara
Awakening Through the Clay of Suffering Passions, Buddha Nature, Four Noble Truths, Addiction, Suzuki Roshi, Ego, Zazen,...	Kosho McCall	Apr 18 2004 Tassajara
Heartfelt Pathways in Zen Transmission Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Teacher-and-Student, Ceremony, Tassajara Zen...	Kosho McCall	Mar 24 2004 City Center
Zen and the Eco-Consumer Code Serial: SF-00156 Wednesday talk. Ecopsychology; desires, needs, narcissism; nurturing through zazen. Karma, Buddha Nature, Practice Period, Ceremony, Buddha Ancestors, Ego, Precepts,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 19 2003
Offerings Serial: SF-00158 Sunday talk. Children's lecture. Legend of the blue bonnets; Seijiki, offering food and light; karmic life and emptiness. Offering, Ceremony, Emptiness, Emotions, Intuition, Practice Period, Precepts, Karma...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 02 2003 Green Gulch Farm
Sesshin Lecture Precepts, Ceremony, Priest, Practice Period, Lay, Offering, Separation, Faith,...	Meiya Wender	Oct 29 2003 Tassajara
Weaving Zen Through Life's Stages Practice Period, training, Conversation, Dharma Transmission, Ordination, Commitment...	Christina Lehnherr	Oct 08 2003
Beginner's Mind, Infinite Enlightenment Serial: SF-00079 Zendo Lecture Birth-and-Death, Separation, Letting Go, Intimacy, Liberation, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Ryushin Paul Haller	Aug 10 2003
Wednesday Lecture Serial: SF-00948 Buffalo passing through window koan. Farm and draft horses at GGF Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Commitment, Monastic Practice, confusion, Practice...	Marc Lesser	Jul 09 2003 Green Gulch
Awakening to Interconnected Authority Separation, Daily Life, Four Noble Truths, Priest-and-Lay, Beginners, Ceremony, Peace...	Teah Strozer	Jan 24 2003 City Center
Embrace Presence Through Compassion Separation, Ceremony, Daily Life, Practice Period, Silence, Passions, Commitment,...	Teah Strozer	Dec 13 2002 City Center
Exploring Zen's Paradoxical Path Buddha Nature, Suzuki Roshi, Zazen, Ceremony, Zendo, Ordinary Mind, Bell, Emptiness,...	Marc Lesser	Dec 09 2002 City Center
Zendo Lecture Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Hate, Greed, Freedom, Delusion, Monastic Practice...	Leslie James	Dec 06 2002 Tassajara
Gratitude For This Practice Serial: SF-04042 Sunday Lecture: Fear - fear is spawning ground for negative emotions. Attention to breath. How to work with difficult mental states. Walking and attention to breath. Busyness... Anger, Emotions, training, Cultivation, Impermanence, Gratitude, Suzuki Roshi,...	Yvonne Rand	Nov 24 2002 Green Gulch
Not Always So Class Karma, Suzuki Roshi, Offering, Anger, Teacher-and-Student, Demons, Continuous...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Oct 30 2002 Tassajara
Sunday Lecture Serial: SF-00953 Witch puppet started giving the talk, humorous. Why do we practice? Because we are dissatisfied. Halloween, Seijiki, legend of Seijiki, general dharma talk - impermanence,... Ceremony, Blue Cliff Record, Buddha Mind, Attachment, Hate, Emptiness, Demons, Greed...	Daigan Lueck	Oct 27 2002 Green Gulch
Sunday Lecture Serial: SF-00981 Buddhist culture rooting in California, purpose of ZC, banana in his back pocket, Puccini, motherhood, livelihood, Buddhahood, statuary invoking our higher purpose, Bodhisattva... Bodhisattva Precepts, Ceremony, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi, Perfect Wisdom, Three...	Fu Schroeder	Jul 21 2002 Green Gulch
Children's Lecture Serial: SF-01070 Mayumi's childhood, planting beans, patience, zen in action, original - rising up, the miracle of water, Suzuki Roshi, non-violent intent, 'man alive', stream of violence and... Peace, Vow, Ordination, Commitment, Don't Know Mind, Ceremony, Patience, Priest...	Wendy Johnson	Jun 02 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...	Daigan Lueck	May 07 2002 Green Gulch
Genzo-e true dharma, Transmission, Nirvana, Karma, Ceremony, Monastic Practice, Fox, Passions...	Shohaku Okumura	Mar 09 2002 1
Sunday Lecture Suzuki Roshi, Ceremony, Impermanence, Enemies, Funeral, Heart Sutra, Faith, Bell,...	Lew Richmond	Oct 28 2001 Green Gulch
Wednesday Lecture Practice Period, Family Practice, Zendo, Mill Valley, Monastic Practice, Ceremony,...	Fu Schroeder, Wendy Johnson	May 09 2001 Green Gulch
Sunday Lecture Ceremony, Attachment, Dragons, Commitment, Letting Go, Zazen, Big Mind, Greed, Suzuki...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 26 2000 Green Gulch
Embracing Abundance Through Selfless Giving Ceremony, Gratitude, Emptiness, Separation, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain...	Teah Strozer	Nov 22 2000 City Center
Sunday Lecture Ceremony, Cultivation, New Year, Gratitude, Impermanence, resistance, Balance,...	Yvonne Rand	Nov 05 2000 Green Gulch
Tenzo Kyokun Class realization, Practice Period, Skandas, Buddha Ancestors, Zendo, Beginners, Ceremony,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Oct 31 2000 Green Gulch
Sunday Lecture Big Mind, Six Realms, Ceremony, Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Buddha Ancestors, Soto...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Oct 29 2000 Green Gulch
One-day Sitting Lecture Dragons, Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Duality, Ceremony, Bowing, Emotions,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Sep 16 2000 Green Gulch

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