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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Effort

Serial: SF-00155

Sunday talk

Vow, Birth-and-Death, Suzuki Roshi, Zendo, Impermanence, Ceremony, Concentration,...
Sep 04 1994

Bodhisattvas Among Us: Everyday Enlightenment

Politics, Ceremony, Vow, Aspects of Practice, Suzuki Roshi, Monastic Practice, Heart...
Aug 14 1994
Unknown

Buddha's Birthday

Serial: SF-03249

Sunday Lecture

Buddha's Birthday, Renewal, Ceremony, Bell, Heart Sutra, Nirvana, Offering,...
Apr 10 1994
Green Gulch

The Meeting of American Culture and Buddhism: The Arts

Serial: SF-00008

Lecture Series

New Year, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Emptiness, Lineage, Anger, Suzuki Roshi,...
Feb 01 1994
City Center

Saturday Lecture

Buddha Nature, zen meditation, Birth-and-Death, Lineage, Repentance, Mahayana,...
Nov 13 1993
City Center

Women in Japanese Soto Zen

Serial: SF-00097

Author reading from her book on the subject.

Soto Zen, training, Monastic Practice, Ordination, Ceremony, Religion, Lay, Emptiness...
Nov 25 1992

Zendo Opening Ceremony

Lay Practice, Perfect Wisdom, confusion, Ceremony, Offering, Practice Period, Priest...
Nov 22 1992
Green Gulch

Stupas

Serial: SF-03956

Stupa Slide Show - Sunday Lecture

Offering, Ceremony, Posture, Lay, Priest, Mill Valley, Dharma Transmission, Bowing,...
Nov 13 1991
Green Gulch

Cultivating Community Through Zazen Practice

true dharma, Sangha, Gratitude, Zazen, Letting Go, Vow, Anger, Suzuki Roshi, Ceremony...
Oct 19 1991

Saturday Lecture

Precepts, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Ceremony,...
Sep 21 1991
Unknown

Embracing Zen Through Community

Practice Period, Zendo, Suzuki Roshi, Intimacy, Posture, Aspects of Practice, Zazen,...
Sep 18 1991

Saturday Lecture

Lotus Sutra, Ceremony, Priest, realization, Peace
Sep 14 1991
Unknown

Form and Inanimate Objects Teaching the Dharma

Serial: SF-00947

Sesshin Day 2 #shuso-talk

Ceremony, Bowing, Ordination, Bell, Suzuki Roshi, Zazen, Soto Zen, Concentration,...
Apr 11 1991
Unknown

Seijiki

Serial: SF-02765

Sunday Lecture

Birth-and-Death, Ceremony, Demons, Anger, Offering, Six Realms, Delusion, Greed, Hate...
Oct 28 1990
Green Gulch

Suffering, Healing and Happiness

Serial: SF-03964

Sunday Lecture

Happiness, Ceremony, Aspects of Practice, Suzuki Roshi, Lay, Avalokiteshvara,...
Jun 24 1990
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Letting Go, Forgiveness, Addiction, Funeral, Mindfulness, Ceremony, Peace
May 06 1990
Green Gulch

Taking Refuge

Sangha, Three Treasures, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Precepts, Transmission,...
Jan 10 1990

Sunday Lecture

Cultivation, New Year, Vow, Gratitude, Intimacy, Light-and-Darkness, Buddha Ancestors...
Dec 24 1989
Green Gulch

Zendo Talk

Daily Life, Blue Cliff Record, Delusion, realization, Rinzai, Karma, Ceremony, Sangha...
Nov 22 1989
Unknown

Dzögchen Teachings

Serial: SF-02716

Commercially produced cassette

Bodhisattva Vow, Emptiness, Transmission, Commitment, Vow, Current Events, Lineage,...
Oct 09 1989
San Jose

Embodying Enlightenment Through Daily Awareness

Renunciation, Zazen Mind, Zazen, Buddha Nature, Concentration, Suzuki Roshi, Ceremony...
May 18 1989
Tassajara

Sunday Lecture

New Year, Offering, Liberation, Dragons, Impermanence, Non-violence, Ceremony,...
Mar 05 1989
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Emotions, Anger, Renunciation, Ordination, Daily Life, Half-Smile, Ceremony,...
Oct 09 1988
Green Gulch

Dzögchen

Don't Know Mind, Duality, Balance, Obstacles, Karma, Happiness, Emotions,...
Mar 28 1988
SFZC

Blue Cliff Record Class

Serial: SF-00070

Cases 14 and 15

Suzuki Roshi, First Principle, Oneness, Lotus Sutra, Karma, Transmission, Dragons,...
Nov 27 1987
5
Green Gulch Farm

Embracing Imperfection in Buddhist Refuge

Precepts, Ceremony
Nov 12 1987

Living the Zen Connection

Serial: SF-03977

May be part of sesshin series

Freedom, Dragons, Teacher-and-Student, Intimacy, Heart Sutra, Practice Period,...
1987
SFZC

Zen Gardens: Embracing Life's Transience

Study Period, Ceremony, Death-and-Dying, Impermanence, Posture, Buddha Nature,...
1987
SFZC

The Second Grave Precept: Not Stealing

Precepts, Peace, realization, Greed, Buddha Nature, Non-violence, training, Emptiness...
Aug 05 1983
SFZC

The Second Grave Precept

Serial: SF-00027

Not taking what is not given.

Buddha Nature, Precepts, Peace, training, realization, Samadhi, Ceremony, Ego,...
Aug 04 1983
3 of 3

Application of the Practice - Feminism and Buddhism in the Diamond Sangha

Ceremony, Lotus Sutra, Silence, Anger, Passions, Offering, Balance, Doubt, Peace...
Aug 14 1981
3

Rehearsal of Tendai Shomyo chanting (contd)

Hate, training, Ceremony
Aug 30 1980
SFZC

The Four Truths

Happiness, Four Noble Truths, Religion, New Year, Don't Know Mind, Gratitude,...
Oct 21 1979

Five Masters in the Kamakura Period

Lotus Sutra, Faith, Chanting, Evil, Vow, Precepts, Ceremony, Demons, Sangha, Lineage...
Mar 03 1978
Tassajara

Awakening Through Sound and Self-lessness

Serial: SF-00130

Changes that occur during practice period; sutra story of monk retrieving his mother from hell; composing concrete music;

Practice Period, Ceremony, Mahayana, Nirvana, Karma, Manjushri, Addiction, Samsara,...
Dec 10 1975

Consciousness - Fourth Type

Attachment, Nirvana, Equanimity, Doubt, Ceremony, Liberation, Freedom, Addiction, Ego...
May 19 1973
Tassajara

Discussions

Interview, Passions, Faith, Ceremony
May 14 1973
Tassajara

Zen's Sacred in the Everyday

Serial: SF-03016

8411-2

Dragons, Bodhidharma, Light-and-Darkness, First Principle, Ceremony, Instruction,...
1973
Unknown

Funeral Service for Suzuki Roshi

Serial: SR-00171

This is a full recording of Suzuki Roshi's funeral, held nine days after his death.

Ceremony, Funeral, Suzuki Roshi, Soto Zen, zen, Ceremony, Vow, Discrimination...
Dec 12 1971
City Center

Obon Days

Ceremony, Big Mind, Nishiari Bokusan, Offering, Suffering, American, Faith
Aug 12 1971
Tassajara

San-Pachi-Nenju

Ceremony, First Principle, Faith, Non-duality, Diversity, Lay
Jul 22 1971
Tassajara

Lay Ordination Ceremony

Serial: SR-00069B

===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #25, by Shundo David Haye =====

This tape, which is unfortunately very poorly recorded, gives us a sense of the lay ordination...

Precepts, Ceremony, Commitment
Aug 23 1970
City Center

Priest Ordination Ceremony: Paul Discoe and Reb Anderson

Serial: SR-00069A

Reprocessed version may allow for clarification of transcript.

Priest, Ceremony, Precepts, Don't Know Mind, Delusion, Greed, Interview,...
Aug 09 1970
City Center

Observation of Precepts and Practice of Zazen is Same Thing

Serial: SF-06049

Sesshin Lecture No. 1
Saturday, August 1, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Precepts, Precepts, Doubt, Buddha Nature, Faith, Ceremony, Ordination, Lay,...
Aug 01 1970
City Center

Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind Temple

Serial: SF-05995

This is the bulk of the ceremony, with speakers other than Suzuki Roshi, in Japanese and English

training, Gratitude, Zoom, Ceremony, Obstacles, Observe, Silence, Enemies, Evil,...
Apr 25 1970
City Center

Remarks at the Ceremony Officially Opening Beginner's Mind Temple

Serial: SF-05996

These are Suzuki Roshi's words, edited together out of longer recording of ceremony.

Ceremony, Offering
Apr 25 1970
City Center

Ordination Ceremony: Bill Kwong and Silas Hoadley

Ceremony, Priest, Ceremony, American
Jan 11 1970
City Center

Shosan Ceremony

Serial: SF-05964

Friday, December 5, 1969

Previously described as intranscribable - now clearer
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File name: 69-12-05N: untitled level low. [Verbatim transcript not...

Ceremony, Shosan, Sixth Patriarch, Big Mind, Letting Go, Separation, Attachment,...
Dec 05 1969
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-7

Serial: SF-06043

Fall 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness, Mahayana, Precepts, Nirvana, Enemies,...
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 7
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-11

Serial: SF-05251

October 1968
New version uploaded, should help with transcript

Lotus Sutra, Lay, Emptiness, Interview, Ceremony
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 11
Tassajara

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