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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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The Great Matter

Serial: SF-00085

How awareness of death, and our own mortality, spurs us to greater effort in practice.

Birth-and-Death, Suzuki Roshi, Impermanence, Gratitude, Heart Sutra, Ceremony,...
Mar 11 2006
City Center

Practice Period

Serial: SF-00034

Origins of PP, meaning of 'ango'; Dogen's essay; resistance; hermit Jim; Rumi poems.

Practice Period, Buddha Ancestors, Zazen, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, resistance,...
Feb 19 2006

No Self

Serial: SF-00971

One-day sitting lecture: Bodhisattva Initiation - dharma names; Buddha's second teaching - "No-self Characteristic Sutta"; shamata - posture instructions; Bodhisattva precepts...

Bodhisattva Precepts, Ceremony, Precepts, Continuous Practice, Separation, Posture,...
Sep 17 2005
Green Gulch

Natural Liberation

Serial: SF-00035

Sunday talk.
Buddha teaches liberation; methods of liberation; birth and death is itself nirvana.

Birth-and-Death, Liberation, Renunciation, Nirvana, Freedom, Letting Go, Samsara,...
Jun 26 2005

Sunday Lecture

Serial: SF-00940

World's largest ball of twine, snobbery, insight, calming our minds, shamata - tranquility practce, Dhammapada, monuments to warfare, GGF farm and kids, hate crime and Tam High...

Vow, Precepts, Hate, Non-violence, Bodhisattva Precepts, Intimacy, Interview,...
Dec 19 2004
Green Gulch

Lotus Sutra Class

Serial: SF-03549

Dining Room Class

Lotus Sutra, Ceremony, Perfect Wisdom, Buddha Nature, Nirvana, Zazen, Practice Period...
Nov 03 2004
Tassajara

Sesshin Lecture

Serial: SF-03545

First Sesshin, Zendo Lecture

Ceremony, Offering, Lotus Sutra, Suzuki Roshi, Chanting, Branching Streams, Karma,...
Oct 29 2004
Tassajara

Sitting Under The Rose-Apple Tree

Serial: SF-01016

Sunday Lecture

Balance, Darkness and Light, Bell, Commitment, Letting Go, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi,...
Oct 03 2004
Green Gulch

Zen and the Eco-Consumer Code

Serial: SF-00156

Wednesday talk.
Ecopsychology; desires, needs, narcissism; nurturing through zazen.

Karma, Buddha Nature, Practice Period, Ceremony, Buddha Ancestors, Ego, Precepts,...
Nov 19 2003

Offerings

Serial: SF-00158

Sunday talk. Children's lecture.
Legend of the blue bonnets; Seijiki, offering food and light; karmic life and emptiness.

Offering, Ceremony, Emptiness, Emotions, Intuition, Practice Period, Precepts, Karma...
Nov 02 2003
Green Gulch Farm

Sesshin Lecture

Ceremony, Practice, Name
Oct 29 2003
Tassajara

Weaving Zen Through Life's Stages

Practice Period, training, Conversation, Dharma Transmission, Ordination, Commitment...
Oct 08 2003

Beginner's Mind, Infinite Enlightenment

Serial: SF-00079

Zendo Lecture

Birth-and-Death, Separation, Letting Go, Intimacy, Liberation, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Aug 10 2003

Not Always So Class

Karma, Suzuki Roshi, Offering, Anger, Teacher-and-Student, Demons, Continuous...
Oct 30 2002
Tassajara

Sunday Lecture

Serial: 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

Sunday Lecture

Serial: 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

Genzo-e

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

Sunday Lecture

Time, Suzuki Roshi, Ceremony
Oct 28 2001
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Ceremony, Attachment, Dragons, Commitment, Letting Go, Zazen, Big Mind, Greed, Suzuki...
Nov 26 2000
Green Gulch

Giving and Receiving in Harmony

Practice, difficulty, Ceremony
Nov 22 2000
City Center

Sunday Lecture

Time, Practice, Ceremony
Nov 05 2000
Green Gulch

Tenzo Kyokun Class

realization, Practice Period, Skandas, Buddha Ancestors, Zendo, Beginners, Ceremony,...
Oct 31 2000
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Big Mind, Six Realms, Ceremony, Practice Period, Suzuki Roshi, Buddha Ancestors, Soto...
Oct 29 2000
Green Gulch

One-day Sitting Lecture

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

Wednesday Lecture

Precepts, Equanimity, Bodhisattva Precepts, Enemies, Bodhisattva Vow, Ceremony,...
Sep 13 2000
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Fox, causation, Karma, Nirvana, Soto Zen, Funeral, Heart Sutra, Emptiness, Ceremony,...
Sep 10 2000
Green Gulch

Women Ancestors Class

Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Lay, Ceremony, Silence, Freedom, Practice Period,...
Aug 15 2000
Unknown

Women Ancestors Class

Ceremony, Religion, Teacher-and-Student, Emotions, Sangha, Commitment, Conversation,...
Jul 25 2000
Unknown

Women Ancestors

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

Women Ancestors

Lineage, Transmission, Soto Zen, realization, Priest-and-Lay, Emptiness, Ceremony,...
May 13 2000
1

Surangama Sutra Class

Precepts, Don't Know Mind, Commitment, Ceremony, Birth-and-Death, Ordination,...
May 02 2000
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Ceremony, Manjushri, Offering, Heart Sutra, Zendo, Perfect Wisdom, Buddha's...
Apr 02 2000
Green Gulch

Wednesday Lecture

Ceremony, Lotus Sutra, Chanting, Dharma Transmission, Heart Sutra, Observe, Demons,...
Mar 29 2000
Green Gulch

One-day Sitting Lecture

Balance, Posture, Instruction, Bodhidharma, Daily Life, Skandas, Ceremony, Separation...
Mar 20 2000
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Letting Go, Ceremony, Freedom, Zazen, Bodhidharma, Interview, Mindfulness, Silence,...
Mar 05 2000
Green Gulch

Wednesday Lecture

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

Fukanzazengi Class

Serial: SF-03661

Monday Class

Ceremony, Soto Zen, true dharma, Instruction, realization, Practice Period, Posture,...
Feb 21 2000
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Ceremony, Instruction, Letting Go, Practice Period, Delusion, Zazen, Family Practice...
Feb 20 2000
Green Gulch

Stepping Down Ceremony

Serial: SF-03130

"Starts Here"

Blue Cliff Record, Ceremony, realization, Gratitude, Lineage, Letting Go, Faith,...
Feb 12 2000
City Center

Sunday Lecture

Emptiness, Emotions, Practice Period, Ceremony, Passions, Letting Go, Enthusiasm,...
Jan 09 2000
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Time, Ceremony, Meditation
Oct 31 1999
Green Gulch

One-day Sitting Lecture

Faith, Buddha Nature, Suzuki Roshi, Zazen, Ceremony, Non-duality, Equanimity, Six...
Jul 17 1999
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Precepts, Birth-and-Death, Dharma Transmission, Impermanence, Posture, Ceremony,...
May 16 1999
Green Gulch

One-day Sitting Lecture

Birth-and-Death, Ceremony, Bodhidharma, Renunciation, Two Truths, Letting Go, Vow,...
May 15 1999
Green Gulch

Buddha's Birthday

Serial: SF-03241

Sunday Lecture

Buddha's Birthday, Ceremony, Renewal, Liberation, Vow, Happiness, Peace,...
Apr 04 1999
Green Gulch

One-day Sitting Lecture

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

Sunday Lecture

Practice Period, Precepts, Dragons, Six Realms, Liberation, Ceremony, Forgiveness,...
Nov 29 1998
Green Gulch

25 Years of Green Gulch

Serial: SF-03245

Sunday Lecture

Gratitude, Bell, Commitment, Suzuki Roshi, Mill Valley, Ceremony, Teacher-and-Student...
Sep 20 1998
Green Gulch

Sunday Lecture

Blue Cliff Record, Bodhidharma, Commitment, Priest, Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature,...
Aug 30 1998
Green Gulch

Sesshin Lecture

Composure, Posture, Balance, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Silence, Freedom, Observe...
Aug 22 1998
Green Gulch

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