Religion Talks

Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. It is an essentially contested concept. Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacredness, faith, and a supernatural being or beings.

The origin of religious belief is an open question, with possible explanations including awareness of individual death, a sense of community, and dreams. Religions have sacred histories, narratives, and mythologies, preserved in oral traditions, sacred texts, symbols, and holy places, that may attempt to explain the origin of life, the universe, and other phenomena.

Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities or saints), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, matrimonial and funerary services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, or public service.

There are an estimated 10,000 distinct religions worldwide, though nearly all of them have regionally based, relatively small followings. Four religions—Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism—account for over 77% of the world's population, and 92% of the world either follows one of those four religions or identifies as nonreligious, meaning that the vast majority of remaining faiths account for only 8% of the population combined. The religiously unaffiliated demographic includes those who do not identify with any particular religion, atheists, and agnostics, although many in the demographic still have various religious beliefs.

Many world religions are also organized religions, most definitively including the Abrahamic religions Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, while others are arguably less so, in particular folk religions, indigenous religions, and some Eastern religions. A portion of the world's population are members of new religious movements. Scholars have indicated that global religiosity may be increasing due to religious countries having generally higher birth rates.

The study of religion comprises a wide variety of academic disciplines, including theology, philosophy of religion, comparative religion, and social scientific studies. Theories of religion offer various explanations for its origins and workings, including the ontological foundations of religious being and belief.

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Sunday Lecture

Religion, Priest, Buddha Mind, Vow, Precepts, Zazen, Chanting, Hate, Freedom, Soto...
Nov 22 1998
Green Gulch

Modernizing Zen: Soto's Taisho Transformation

Serial: SF-01817

Gil (Intro)

Soto Zen, Suzuki Roshi, Religion, Lay, training, Five Ranks, Priest, Bell, Faith...
May 30 1998
Sati Center

Sunday Lecture

Heart Sutra, zen meditation, Mindfulness, Religion, Koan, resistance, Letting Go,...
May 17 1998
Green Gulch

Origins of Zen

Faith, Diversity, Lotus Sutra, Don't Know Mind, Daily Life, Religion, Enthusiasm...
May 16 1998
Unknown

Green Gulch History

training, Fox, Offering, Lay, Zendo, Priest, Doubt, Religion, realization, Peace...
May 10 1998
Green Gulch

Zen's Journey: Monastery to Society

Bodhidharma, Buddha Nature, Platform Sutra, Doubt, Faith, New Year, Religion, Funeral...
Apr 26 1998
Unknown

Buddhism at Millennium's Edge - Seminar 1

Serial: SF-03511

Copyright 1998 by Gary Snyder - Unedited Preview Cassette

Religion, Conversation, Demons, Peace, resistance, Precepts, Zendo, Non-violence,...
1998
Unknown

Buddhism at Millennium's Edge - Seminar 2

Serial: SF-03512

Copyright 1998 by Gary Snyder - Unedited Preview Cassette

Sixth Patriarch, Lotus Sutra, Religion, Priest, Mahayana, Samsara, Sangha, Offering,...
1998
Unknown

Buddhism at Millennium's Edge - Poems 1

Serial: SF-03521

Copyright 1998 by Gary Snyder - Unedited Preview Cassette

Zendo, Continuous Practice, Politics, Religion, Ceremony, Fox, Patience, Mahayana,...
1998
Unknown

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

Scholarship Conference Paper

Serial: SF-03238

Sunday Lecture

Heart Sutra, Lineage, Platform Sutra, Soto Zen, Religion, Study Period, Emptiness,...
Nov 16 1997
Green Gulch

Majjhima Nikaya Class

Serial: SF-03195

Middle-length Discourses

Attachment, Addiction, Mindfulness, confusion, Four Noble Truths, Emptiness, Zazen,...
Oct 14 1997
Green Gulch

Majjhima Nikaya Class

Serial: SF-03192

Middle-length Discourses

Evil, Letting Go, Birth-and-Death, Karma, Faith, Precepts, Liberation, Karmic...
Sep 23 1997
Green Gulch

Save The Redwoods - Mother Theresa and Lady Diana

Serial: SF-00088

Saturday lecture.

Vow, Precepts, Interdependence, Gratitude, Enemies, Religion
Sep 06 1997
City Center

Wednesday Lecture

Karmic Consciousness, Separation, Fasting, Precepts, Karma, Religion, Balance,...
Jul 30 1997
Green Gulch

Mothers' Day

Serial: SF-03101

Sunday Lecture: being born from a mother guarantees two ingredients, a bit of love and suffering, both necessary for enlightenment. The essential point of zen is questioning;...

Manjushri, Commitment, Karma, Four Noble Truths, Letting Go, Religion, zen meditation...
May 11 1997
Green Gulch

Recollections of Early Zen

Priest, Demons, Vinaya, Funeral, Religion, Ceremony, Lay Practice, Six Realms,...
Feb 08 1997
2 of 3
Green Gulch Farm

Dogen's Life

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

Sandokai Class

Evil, Religion, Funeral, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Discrimination, Suzuki Roshi...
Nov 25 1996
Green Gulch

Sandokai Class

Serial: SF-03177

Like forward and backwards steps - phenomenon exist like box and cover joining, principle accords like arrows points meeting

Oneness, Suzuki Roshi, Absolute-and-Relative, Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Nov 19 1996
Green Gulch

Sandokai Class

Discrimination, Oneness, Darkness and Light, Letting Go, Branching Streams,...
Nov 05 1996
Green Gulch

Practicing With Afflictive Emotions

Serial: SF-02722

Antidotes - Shantidvea/Dalai Lama/Hui Hai

Forgiveness, Anger, Emotions, Suzuki Roshi, Non-duality, Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Oct 09 1996
Unknown

Saturday Lecture

Passions, Religion, Light-and-Darkness, Suzuki Roshi, Politics, Platform Sutra, Zazen...
Aug 17 1996
City Center

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