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Monastic Practice Talks

Monasticism (from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós) 'solitary, monastic'; from μόνος (mónos) 'alone'), also called monachism or monkhood, is a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual activities. Monastic life plays an important role in many Christian churches, especially in the Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican traditions as well as in other faiths such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. In other religions, monasticism is generally criticized and not practiced, as in Islam and Zoroastrianism, or plays a marginal role, as in modern Judaism.

Many monastics live in abbeys, convents, monasteries, or priories to separate themselves from the secular world, unless they are in mendicant or missionary orders.

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Title Speaker

Zendo Lecture

Monastic Practice, Practice Period, Global Warming, Buddha Ancestors, Mahayana,...
Oct 02 2005
Tassajara

Dining Room Lecture

Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Birth-and-Death, Posture, Instruction...
Sep 03 2005
Tassajara

Way Seeking Mind

Serial: SF-00044

The route to becoming a zen monk; growing up Jewish and hanging out with the beats; meeting Suzuki Roshi.

Monastic Practice, Japan, Way-Seeking Mind, Suzuki Roshi, Monastic Practice, Priest,...
Mar 13 2005
2
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra Class

Serial: SF-03557

Dining Room Class

Lotus Sutra, Intimacy, Vow, Zendo, Manjushri, First Principle, Ordinary Mind, Suzuki...
Dec 03 2004
Tassajara

Fear, Failure, and Spiritual Leadership

Serial: SF-00154

Wednesday talk.
Poem; anxiety about things finishing; expressing ourselves, failure, resentment.

Happiness, Monastic Practice, Don't Know Mind, Practice Period, Conversation,...
Jun 19 2002

Wednesday Lecture

Serial: SF-01019

Work week: work practice, SFZC Mission Statement, two forms of Buddha's teaching: texts, etc, and common sense. Up to us to find satisfying relationship to Buddhist teaching, "...

Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Dependent Origination, realization, Perfect Wisdom,...
Jun 05 2002
Green Gulch

Genzo-e

true dharma, Transmission, Nirvana, Karma, Ceremony, Monastic Practice, Fox, Passions...
Mar 09 2002
1

Embracing Divine Dialogue in Relationships

Commitment, Intimacy, Absolute-and-Relative, Impermanence, Monastic Practice,...
Jan 11 2002
City Center

Tenzo Kyokun Class

Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Don't Know Mind, Mindfulness, realization, Mill...
Nov 07 2000
Green Gulch

Tenzo Kyokun Class

true dharma, Practice Period, Instruction, Soto Zen, Zendo, Suzuki Roshi, Big Mind,...
Oct 24 2000
Green Gulch

One-day Sitting Lecture

Dragons, Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Duality, Ceremony, Bowing, Emotions,...
Sep 16 2000
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Monastic Practice, Zazen, Religion, Commitment, Big Mind, Buddha Ancestors, Soto Zen...
Aug 20 2000
Green Gulch

Women Ancestors

Monastic Practice, Ego, Chanting, Lineage, Letting Go, Conversation, Ceremony, Soto...
May 13 2000
3

Fukanzazengi Class

Serial: SF-03656

Monday Class

Posture, Zazen, Monastic Practice, realization, true dharma, Lineage, confusion, Don...
Mar 13 2000
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Monastic Practice, Hate, Demons, Conversation, Greed, Peace, Equanimity, Samsara,...
Mar 12 2000
Green Gulch

Wednesday Lecture

Anger, Impermanence, Zendo, Demons, Right Speech, Monastic Practice, Bodhisattva Vow...
Mar 01 2000
Green Gulch

One-day Sitting Lecture

realization, Buddha Ancestors, Demons, Practice Period, Heart Sutra, Bell, Suzuki...
Feb 26 2000
Green Gulch

Wednesday Lecture

Practice Period, Monastic Practice, Mindfulness, Buddha Mind, Nirvana Sutra, Ceremony...
Feb 23 2000
Green Gulch

Timeless Zen: Dogen's Path to Presence

Serial: SF-00147

Wednesday night dharma talk

Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Fundraising, Daily Life, Impermanence, Monastic...
Mar 03 1999
Green Gulch Farm

One-day Sitting Lecture

Suzuki Roshi, training, Letting Go, Nirvana Sutra, Vow, Ceremony, Monastic Practice,...
Feb 27 1999
Green Gulch

Eight Social Practices of the Buddha

Serial: SF-03230

One-day sitting lecture: 1 - Guided meditation; 2 - eight ways of activity and cultivation: 1-4 inward, 5-8 ways to be in the world; four unlimited practices

Letting Go, Happiness, Cultivation, Monastic Practice, Equanimity, Peace,...
Jul 20 1998
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Letting Go, Monastic Practice, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Karma, Practice Period...
Feb 01 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

Genjo Koan workshop

Serial: SF-03185

To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion, that myriad...' Delusion itself is the agency of my enlightenment; totally enter delusion and embrace it and...

Delusion, realization, Precepts, Emotions, Subject-and-Object, Monastic Practice,...
Jun 14 1997
Green Gulch

The Most Important Thing: Just This As It Is

Gratitude, Suzuki Roshi, Monastic Practice, Don't Know Mind, Practice Period,...
Apr 26 1997

The Eight Stages of Monastic Life

Serial: SF-03132

Sunday Lecture - monastic way of wholeness, a sacred way, a sacred place, a clear pace that lives at the bottom of our hearts and is reflected back to us in a religious life....

Monastic Practice, Lineage, Commitment, Letting Go, Practice Period, Renunciation,...
Sep 29 1996
Green Gulch

Wednesday Lecture

Hsin Hsin Ming, Zazen, Ordination, Practice Period, Obstacles, Mahayana, Anger,...
Aug 14 1996
Unknown

Refuge in the Triple Treasure

Three Treasures, Monastic Practice, Lay Practice, Priest-and-Lay, Ceremony, Lay,...
May 22 1996
Unknown

Open Heart, Enlightened Spirit

Repentance, Precepts, Zazen, Practice Period, Three Treasures, Ceremony, Monastic...
May 11 1996
Unknown

Sunday Lecture

Serial: SF-03636

Cassette side B is labeled for a Sunday talk by Tenshin Reb Anderson on the same date - incorrect

Practice Period, Ordination, Perfect Wisdom, Zendo, Emptiness, Ceremony, Monastic...
Mar 24 1996
Green Gulch

One-day Sitting

Silence, Posture, Monastic Practice, Emotions, Letting Go, Ego, Soto Zen, confusion,...
Apr 22 1995
Unknown

Tokubetsu Sesshin

Faith, Ceremony, Big Mind, true dharma, Transmission, Monastic Practice, Emotions,...
Mar 28 1995

The Meeting of American Culture and Buddhism

Serial: SF-00103

Lecture Series

Right Speech, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Fox, Half-Smile, Lay, Emptiness,...
Mar 01 1994
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

Saturday Lecture

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

Living the Illusion of Separation

Precepts, Observe, Concentration, Daily Life, Birth-and-Death, Delusion, Suzuki Roshi...
Dec 15 1990
Unknown

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

Emptiness, Aspects of Practice, Lineage, Separation, Sangha, Monastic Practice, Lay,...
Aug 14 1981
1

Dining Room class

Silence, Current Events, Religion, Monastic Practice, Faith, Sanctuary, Fox, Patience...
Jun 14 1981
1
Tassajara

Monastic Life

Serial: SF-00007A

Early Christian mystics; Benedictine regulations, the rule of obedience; manifestation of God in the world.

realization, Monastic Practice, Silence, Ego, Aspects of Practice, Separation,...
Feb 07 1974
Tassajara

The Monastic Tradition

Serial: SF-00131

How to deal with peak experiences in our lives.

Monastic Practice, Silence, Gratitude, Evil, Cultivation, Conversation, Lay,...
Feb 26 1973

The Monastic Tradition

Serial: SF-00132

Monastic experience across religious traditions.

Silence, Monastic Practice, Don't Know Mind, Emptiness, Religion, Bell, Anger...
Feb 26 1973
2

Way-Seeking Mind

Serial: SF-05361

Saturday Lecture Of March Sesshin
Saturday, March 28, 1970
San Francisco

Way-Seeking Mind, Sesshin, Monastic Practice, Peace
Mar 28 1970
City Center

Our Way To Attain Liberation

Serial: SF-05087B

Tassajara

Story of the Sixth Patriarch. Practice with everyone else at the monastery, without self-centered ideas. Answering student questions.

Dan Gourley reel...

Sixth Patriarch, Monastic Practice, Japan, Sixth Patriarch, Practice, Time
Aug 21 1969
Tassajara

Inner Power of Practice

Serial: SF-05137A

SR017 - Track 1 - slow - Roshi Lecture - 12/2/67 - afternoon - copied

Sesshin, Blue Cliff Record, Concentration, Precepts, Monastic Practice, New Year,...
Dec 02 1967
Tassajara

KPFA Radio Interview with Elsa Knight Thompson

Serial: SF-05115

Monday, November 6, 1967

KPFA RADIO INTERVIEW WITH ELSA KNIGHT THOMPSON
[Originally misdated - Friday, February 18, 1966]
Lecture B
KPFA/KPFB Studio,...

Interview, Don't Know Mind, Nirvana, Monastic Practice, Evil, Samsara, Practice...
Nov 06 1967
KPFA Berkeley

Study Yourself

Serial: SF-05123B

===== Awakening the Archive - Tape #4, by Shundo David Haye =====

"I always felt his best Zen talks were the ones he gave on Thursday mornings in my home. They were...

Dogen, Genjokoan, Rinzai, Monastic Practice, Instruction, Hate, Doubt
Sep 09 1965
Los Altos