You are currently logged-out. You can log-in or create an account to see more talks, save favorites, and more.
Green Gulch Talks
| Title | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|
Sesshin LectureSerial: SF-02751 Appreciation for the world happens. Don't go looking for heavenly sights. We get sticky around the beautiful. Master Heretung (?) letter - being in the world without misery... Family Practice, Emotions, Suzuki Roshi, Peace, Equanimity, Bowing, Dragons, Sangha,... |
Dec 03 2003 Green Gulch |
|
Dogen Class: Miracles Zazen, Intimacy, Lineage, Dream World, Lotus Sutra, Teacher-and-Student, Don't... |
Nov 17 2003 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday LectureSerial: SF-04035 Allow posture to align, pathway to liberation. Cultivate capacity to observe, name and describe, notice what we turn away from? Then cultivate interest and curiosity - zen... Time, Practice |
Nov 09 2003 Green Gulch |
|
Man Alive Violence PreventionSerial: SF-01061 Wendy Johnson and Martha de Barros invited guest speakers from the Man Alive program to talk about violence prevention and specifically the role of meditation in this. ... Time, Meditation, Work |
Sep 16 2003 Green Gulch |
|
Healing Through the Dark EmotionsSerial: SF-01052 Sunday Lecture: Children's Lecture first part of the talk. Penguins. Dalai Lama. Short meditation. Mudras of Tara and Buddha. Dark emotions. Matthew Frick. Grief. Fear.... Practice, Time, Emotions |
Sep 07 2003 Green Gulch |
|
Vimalakirti SutraSerial: SF-04084 Sunday Lecture: Manjushri questioning Vimalakirti. How should one view all sentient beings - like the reflection of the moon in water, etc. Love. Wisdom of love. Love, Time, Manjushri |
Aug 10 2003 Green Gulch |
|
Wednesday LectureSerial: SF-00948 Buffalo passing through window koan. Farm and draft horses at GGF Time, Koan, Tassajara |
Jul 09 2003 Green Gulch |
|
EthicsSerial: SF-00984 Sunday lecture: Morality. Hedonists, perfectionists. College days. John Adams. Strawberry/cliff story. Wrong-doing = causing harm to oneself or others. Ten grave precepts. Gay... Precepts, Delusion, Freedom, Three Treasures, Bodhisattva Precepts, Humility,... |
Jun 29 2003 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday LectureSerial: SF-01089 Feet, toes - funny introduction. Memorial Day - historical information. War. Relating Memorial Day to our practice. War, Time |
May 25 2003 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday LectureSerial: SF-00983 First part of lecture children's program. Read story, "Play with Me". Impatient with world situation. Look at causes. Patience. Path of peace. Dog story. MLK Jr Hate, Anger, Non-violence, Mill Valley, Peace, Greed, Evil, Demons, Concentration,... |
Apr 06 2003 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday LectureSerial: SF-04083 Anti-war activities. Suzuki Roshi's response to Lew's question "What is war?" Wrinkles on goza mat. War, Time, Suzuki Roshi |
Mar 23 2003 Green Gulch |
|
SufferingSerial: SF-04034 Sunday Lecture: Being present with one's own suffering. Aversion and attraction. Thought of stealing bowl. War situation. Suffering, Suzuki Roshi, Time |
Mar 09 2003 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday LectureSerial: SF-01101 Daigan's dream last night. Way to listen to a dharma talk. Practice period. Why people come. Things. Material things. Practice, Practice Period, Time |
Feb 23 2003 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday LectureSerial: SF-01072 One-minute silence/meditation. Enjoy your breathing at that time. Wage peace. Ashoka story. Bodhi tree. Rice (?) to president campaign Time, Peace, Practice |
Feb 09 2003 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday Lecture New Year, Hate, Bodhidharma, Vow, Peace, Delusion, Cultivation, Harmonizing, Offering... |
Dec 29 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Gratitude For This PracticeSerial: 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... Breath, Anger, Time |
Nov 24 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday LectureSerial: 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,... Time, Practice, Ceremony |
Oct 27 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Seven Principles for Preventing DeclineSerial: SF-00935 Dhammapada, 9/11, we are not well, cause of great peace, Huey Johnson, the soldiers will have their way, dogs of war, Dalai Lama, pinpoint causes, 'Guns, Germs, and Steel',... Nirvana Sutra, Precepts, Daily Life, Religion, Interdependence, Renunciation,... |
Sep 15 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday LectureSerial: 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... |
Jul 21 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Wednesday LectureSerial: SF-01051 A sense of place, a valley of ancestors, apprentices finding their place, Harry Roberts' last remarks, 500-year view, mastodon tooth, mountains and rivers, walking mindfully,... Practice, Time, Work |
Jul 10 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday LectureSerial: SF-04039 Listening without judgement, compassion, what hinders our ability, fear of not being helpful, generosity, 98% is about me, reflective listening, cultivate spaciousness, arguing... Practice, Time, Cultivation |
Jun 30 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Wednesday LectureSerial: 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 |
|
Transmission of the Light ClassSerial: SF-01090 What enlightenment meant to the ancestors might be different than what it means to us, it's important to come to everyday events with a new outlook or view, Daitaka, we can... Consciousness, Enlightenment, Buddha |
Jun 04 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Children's LectureSerial: 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... Time, War, Practice |
Jun 02 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Transmission of the Light ClassSerial: SF-00918 Upagupta (Ubakikuta), leaving home Time, Love, Karmic Consciousness |
May 28 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Transmission of the Light ClassSerial: SF-01088 What brings us to these stories(?)? What is the unrest? What is the transmission of, how does the unrest be calmed (?), impermanence is that essential problem. Stories are what... Buddha, Time, Consciousness |
May 21 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Transmission of the Light ClassSerial: SF-00917 Be careful about taking doctrine too much on faith, Don Juan's two cats; Ananda, every one of these stories has a warning, Dogen: all things, just as they are, are perfectly... Enlightenment, Buddha, Practice |
May 14 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday LectureSerial: SF-04071 Mothers' Day, women in Buddhism, the feminine in spirituality, story of Buddha - loss of mother, women's place in early Buddhist hierarchy, meditating on death, Buddha as a... Buddhism, Buddha, Practice |
May 12 2002 Green Gulch |
|
One-day Sitting LectureSerial: SF-01018 Lotus Sutra (Heart Sutra), seals our mind with Buddha's mind, basics of the middle way are covered (in the Sutra of Innumerable Meanings), power of joy and compassion, devotion... Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Nirvana, Four Noble... |
May 11 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Wednesday LectureSerial: SF-01087 A defining moment of metaphor, Dale Wright, time is money, need to create new metaphors for American zen, too green to burn, Daigan and Arlene leaving GGF "AS" Realization, Lotus Sutra, Letting Go, Practice Period, Delusion, Priest, confusion,... |
May 08 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Transmission of the Light ClassSerial: SF-01086 Tuesday: Breaking through the conceptual veil, Kasyapa, nothing to be transmitted, investigate the conventional world to the limit, Kukkutapada Buddha, Transmission, Time |
May 07 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Transmission of the Light ClassSerial: SF-01085 Tuesday: Keizan Jokin, legitimate lineage, mind seal, hagiography, Keizan brought zen to the people, Shakyamuni's story Buddha, Enlightenment, Practice |
Apr 30 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Zen and Poetry Class Time, Love |
Mar 26 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Zen and Poetry Class Time, Poetry, Love |
Mar 19 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Zen and Poetry Class Poetry, Buddha, Love |
Mar 12 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday Lecture Practice, Enlightenment |
Mar 10 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Zen and Poetry ClassSerial: SF-01142 Life and Poetry - Ryokan, Didactic Poems - Writing without adjectives/adverbs Poetry, Time |
Mar 05 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Zen and Poetry Class Poetry, Time, Japan |
Feb 19 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Arbor DaySerial: SF-01071 Sunday Lecture Buddha, Time, Practice |
Feb 10 2002 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday Lecture Two Truths, Four Noble Truths, Humility, Buddha Ancestors, New Year, Liberation,... |
Dec 30 2001 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday Lecture Time, Practice |
Dec 02 2001 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday Lecture Time, Suzuki Roshi, Ceremony |
Oct 28 2001 Green Gulch |
|
Wednesday Lecture Practice, Time, Work |
Sep 26 2001 Green Gulch |
|
Finding Voice Amidst CrisisSerial: SF-04040 Monday Time, Practice, Meditation |
Sep 24 2001 Green Gulch |
|
One-day Sitting Lecture Time, Peace, Suzuki Roshi |
Sep 22 2001 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday Lecture Hate, Current Events, Mill Valley, Peace, Bell, Interdependence, Sanctuary,... |
Sep 16 2001 Green Gulch |
|
Sunday Lecture Suffering, Time, Meditation |
Jun 03 2001 Green Gulch |
|
Wednesday Lecture Work, Time, Practice |
May 23 2001 Green Gulch |
|
Wednesday Lecture Practice, Time, Meditation |
May 09 2001 Green Gulch |
|
Wednesday Lecture Silence, Buddha Nature, Practice Period, Non-duality, Gratitude, Lineage, Passions,... |
Mar 21 2001 Green Gulch |