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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	Date
Settling Into Monastic Practice Together Practice Period, Shingi, Monastic Practice, Sangha, Global Warming, Buddha Ancestors...	Ryushin Paul Haller	Oct 02 2005 Tassajara
Dining Room Lecture Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Birth-and-Death, Posture, Instruction...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	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,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 13 2005 2 Tassajara
Lotus Sutra Class Serial: SF-03557 Dining Room Class Lotus Sutra, Intimacy, Vow, Manjushri, First Principle, Ordinary Mind, Suzuki Roshi,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	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,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	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,...	Fu Schroeder	Jun 05 2002 Green Gulch
Genzo-e Transmission, Nirvana, Karma, Ceremony, Monastic Practice, Fox, Passions, Vinaya...	Shohaku Okumura	Mar 09 2002 1
Embracing Divine Dialogue in Relationships Commitment, Intimacy, Absolute-and-Relative, Impermanence, Monastic Practice,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Jan 11 2002 City Center
Tenzo Kyokun Class Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Don't Know Mind, Mindfulness, Realization, Mill...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Nov 07 2000 Green Gulch
Tenzo Kyokun Class Practice Period, Instruction, Soto Zen, Suzuki Roshi, Big Mind, Monastic Practice,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Oct 24 2000 Green Gulch
One-day Sitting Lecture Dragons, Dharma Transmission, Transmission, Duality, Ceremony, Bowing, Emotions,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Sep 16 2000 Green Gulch
Sunday Lecture Monastic Practice, Zazen, Religion, Commitment, Big Mind, Buddha Ancestors, Soto Zen...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Aug 20 2000 Green Gulch
Women Ancestors Monastic Practice, Ego, Chanting, Lineage, Letting Go, Conversation, Ceremony, Soto...	Various	May 13 2000 3
Fukanzazengi Class Serial: SF-03656 Monday Class Posture, Zazen, Monastic Practice, Realization, Lineage, confusion, Don't Know...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Mar 13 2000 Green Gulch
Sunday Lecture Monastic Practice, Hate, Demons, Conversation, Greed, Peace, Equanimity, Samsara,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Mar 12 2000 Green Gulch
Wednesday Lecture Anger, Impermanence, Demons, Right Speech, Monastic Practice, Bell, Vow	Eijun Linda Cutts	Mar 01 2000 Green Gulch
One-day Sitting Lecture Realization, Buddha Ancestors, Demons, Practice Period, Heart Sutra, Bell, Suzuki...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Feb 26 2000 Green Gulch
Wednesday Lecture Practice Period, Monastic Practice, Mindfulness, Buddha Mind, Nirvana Sutra, Ceremony...	Eijun Linda Cutts	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...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Mar 03 1999 Green Gulch Farm
One-day Sitting Lecture Suzuki Roshi, Letting Go, Nirvana Sutra, Vow, Ceremony, Monastic Practice, Bell, Lay...	Eijun Linda Cutts	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,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Jul 20 1998 Green Gulch
Sunday Lecture Letting Go, Monastic Practice, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Karma, Practice Period...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	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, Dragons, Book of Serenity, Monastic Practice, Tassajara Zen...	Eijun Linda Cutts	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,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	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,...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	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,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Sep 29 1996 Green Gulch
Wednesday Lecture Hsin Hsin Ming, Zazen, Ordination, Practice Period, Obstacles, Mahayana, Anger,...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Aug 14 1996 Unknown
Refuge in the Triple Treasure Three Treasures, Monastic Practice, Lay Practice, Priest-and-Lay, Ceremony, Lay,...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	May 22 1996 Unknown
Open Heart, Enlightened Spirit Repentance, Precepts, Zazen, Practice Period, Three Treasures, Ceremony, Monastic...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	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, Emptiness, Ceremony, Monastic Practice,...	Eijun Linda Cutts	Mar 24 1996 Green Gulch
One-day Sitting Silence, Posture, Monastic Practice, Emotions, Letting Go, Ego, Soto Zen, confusion,...	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Apr 22 1995 Unknown
Tokubetsu Sesshin Faith, Ceremony, Big Mind, Transmission, Monastic Practice, Emotions, Gratitude, Lay...	Genpo Merzel	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,...	Jane Hirshfield	Mar 01 1994 City Center
Women in Japanese Soto Zen Serial: SF-00097 Author reading from her book on the subject. Soto Zen, Monastic Practice, Ordination, Ceremony, Religion, Lay, Emptiness	Paula Arai	Nov 25 1992
Saturday Lecture Precepts, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Ceremony,...	Zenkei Blanche Hartman	Sep 21 1991 Unknown
Living the Illusion of Separation Precepts, Observe, Concentration, Daily Life, Birth-and-Death, Delusion, Suzuki Roshi...	Pat Phelan	Dec 15 1990 Unknown
Application of the Practice - Feminism and Buddhism in the Diamond Sangha Emptiness, Lineage, Separation, Sangha, Monastic Practice, Lay, Heart Sutra,...	Susan Murcott	Aug 14 1981 1
Dining Room class Silence, Current Events, Religion, Monastic Practice, Faith, Sanctuary, Fox, Patience...	Brother David	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, Separation, Conversation, Beginners,...	Father Prior Bruno	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,...	Brother David	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...	Brother David	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	Suzuki Roshi	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	Suzuki Roshi	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,...	Suzuki Roshi	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...	Suzuki Roshi	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	Suzuki Roshi	Sep 09 1965 Los Altos