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 work. 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 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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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, Karma, Practice Period, Bell, resistance,...
Feb 01 1998
Green Gulch

Buddhism at Millennium's Edge - Seminar 3

Serial: SF-03513

Copyright 1998 by Peter Matthiessen - Unedited Preview Cassette

Mahayana, Priest, Lay, Commitment, Religion, Mill Valley, Transmission, Monastic...
1998
Unknown

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

Dogen's Life

Suzuki Roshi, Buddha Nature, Family Practice, training, Monastic Practice, Rinzai,...
Jan 25 1997
Unknown

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

May 22nd, 1996, Serial No. 02700

Triple Treasure, Monastic Practice, Lay Practice, Priest-and-Lay, Ceremony, Lay,...
May 22 1996
Unknown

May 11th, 1996, Serial No. 02704

Repentance, Precepts, Zazen, Practice Period, Triple Treasure, 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

August 14th, 1994, Serial No. 02696

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

The Meeting of American Culture and Buddhism

Serial: SF-00103

Lecture Series

Right Speech, Tassajara, Fox, Half-Smile, Lay, Emptiness, Concentration, Monastic...
Mar 01 1994
City Center

Sunday Lecture

Gratitude, Cultivation, Concentration, Mindfulness, practicing generosity, Dragons,...
Nov 29 1992
Green Gulch

Women in Japanese Soto Zen

Serial: SF-00097

Author reading from her book on the subject.

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

Saturday Lecture

Precepts, Tassajara, Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Ceremony, Zendo, confusion, Zazen...
Sep 21 1991
Unknown

December 15th, 1990, Serial No. 01075

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

April 25th, 1988, Serial No. 01893

Bodhidharma, Monastic Practice, Ordination, Doubt, Religion, Mahayana, Interview,...
Apr 25 1988
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

Attachment to Form: Positive and Negative

Precepts, Attachment, Tassajara, Daily Life, Monastic Practice, Practice Period,...
Oct 25 1974
SFZC

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, Echo, Religion, Bell,...
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-05087-B

Monday Evening, August 18, 1969
Tassajara

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

Sixth Patriarch, Monastic Practice, Japan, Aspects of Practice, Discrimination, Faith...
Aug 18 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Our Way to Attain Liberation

Serial: SF-05087B

Roshi's Lectures - 2 of them - Aug 18, 69 17/8 side 1(on cassette) - Dan Gourley #5

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Monday Evening, August 18, 1969...

Dogen, Sixth Patriarch, Monastic Practice,
Aug 18 1969
Tassajara

OLD - Inner Power of Practice

Serial: SF-05828

SR-67-12-04-A (start) (finish) - This tape repeated 67-12-02, but section at end was missing section of 67-12-01 and -02!

Monastic Practice, Concentration, Precepts, Buddha Nature, Conversation, Beginners,...
Dec 02 1967
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

Way-Seeking Mind Talks

Serial: SF-03089C

Student talks, should not be published

Practice Period, Priest, Monastic Practice, Bodhisattva Vow, Conversation, Vows,...
[field_wisdom_date]
Tassajara

The Fourth Precept

Freedom, Monastic Practice, Bodhisattva Vow, Karma, Suzuki Roshi, Greed, Observe,...
[field_wisdom_date]
Unknown

The Eighth Precept

Serial: SF-04088

Side A and Side B and continued on the next tape

Monastic Practice, Precepts, Gratitude, Freedom, Ordinary Mind, training, Religion,...
[field_wisdom_date]
Unknown

The Eighth Precept

Priest, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi, Monastic Practice, Observe, Enemies, Hate, Oneness,...
[field_wisdom_date]
Unknown

First Precept

Precepts, Ceremony, Ordination, Vinaya, Lay, Bodhisattva Precepts, Observe, Monastic...
[field_wisdom_date]
Unknown

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