The SFZC Audio Archive Demo

Welcome to our new, faster search engine! See the FAQ for more info.

Showing 771 talks
 

- Reset Search

Title Speaker Date

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 - the scrimmage line -
Bodhisattva Precepts, Ceremony, Precepts, Continuous Practice, Separation, Posture, Delusion,...
Sep 17 2005
Green Gulch

Birth and Death

Serial: SF-00970 Sunday Lecture - Children's Lecture: children's story - Amos and Boris; response to Hurrican Katrina; Story of king, knowing death is coming; vowing to live for the benefit of all; story of Buddha, a child's death and mustard... -
Birth-and-Death, Vow, Four Noble Truths, First Principle, Lotus Sutra, Mill Valley, Faith,...
Sep 04 2005
Green Gulch

Dining Room Lecture

Serial: SF-01783 -
Practice Period, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Birth-and-Death, Posture, Instruction, Suzuki...
Sep 03 2005
Tassajara

Zendo Lecture

Serial: SF-01782 -
Precepts, Suzuki Roshi, Observe, Teacher-and-Student, Non-duality, Ego, training, Posture,...
Sep 01 2005
Tassajara

Dining Room Lecture

Serial: SF-01781 -
Posture, Zendo, Mindfulness, training, Big Mind, Bell, Bowing, Suzuki Roshi, Zazen,...
Aug 31 2005
Tassajara

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, Ceremony,...
Jun 26 2005

Dining Room Lecture

Serial: SF-03125 -
Birth-and-Death, Suzuki Roshi, Zazen, Separation, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Happiness,...
Jun 24 2005
Tassajara

Dining Room Lecture

Serial: SF-03122 -
Birth-and-Death, Silent Illumination, Buddha Mind, Patience, Offering, Intimacy, Doubt...
Jun 06 2005
Tassajara

Wheel of Birth and Death

Serial: SF-00969 Sunday Lecture: Children's stories: earth moving around the sun is one year; "stone soup"; thinking and not thinking; Tibetan wheel of birth and death - six realms, twelve-fold chain of causation; Marin organizing committee -... -
Peace, Dependent Origination, Six Realms, Demons, Birth-and-Death, Liberation, Silence,...
Apr 10 2005
Green Gulch

Zendo Lecture

Serial: SF-03123 -
Practice Period, Impermanence, Balance, Five Ranks, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Letting Go...
Mar 21 2005
Tassajara

Zen Of Business Administration

Serial: SF-00036 Sunday Talk.Life at Green Gulch in the 1970s; giving, fearlessness; improv; no mistakes; parenting. -
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Interview, Suzuki Roshi, Mill Valley, Daily Life, Koan,...
Mar 20 2005
Green Gulch Farm

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,...
Mar 13 2005
2
Tassajara

Two Paths to the Dharma

Serial: SF-00080 -
training, Practice Period, Liberation, Bodhidharma, Mahayana, Study Period, Lineage, Letting...
Mar 04 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, Harvey Milk, It's Elementary Sutra (?), sew... -
Vow, Precepts, Hate, Non-violence, Bodhisattva Precepts, Intimacy, Interview, Mindfulness,...
Dec 19 2004
Green Gulch

Lotus Sutra Class

Serial: SF-03557 Dining Room Class -
Lotus Sutra, Intimacy, Vow, Zendo, Manjushri, First Principle, Ordinary Mind, Suzuki Roshi,...
Dec 03 2004
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra Class

Serial: SF-03560 Dining Room Class -
Addiction, Lotus Sutra, Happiness, realization, Emptiness
Nov 27 2004
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra Class

Serial: SF-03484 Dining Room Class -
Dragons, Lotus Sutra, Manjushri, Mahayana, Emptiness, Hindrances, Diversity, Vimalakirti, Evil...
Nov 27 2004
Tassajara

Sesshin Lecture

Serial: SF-03546 Second Sesshin, Zendo Lecture day 6 -
Lotus Sutra, Buddha Nature, Letting Go, Karma, Karmic Consequences, Buddha's Birthday,...
Nov 21 2004
Tassajara

Sesshin Lecture

Serial: SF-03548 Second Sesshin, Zendo Lecture -
Lotus Sutra, Complete Perfect Enlightenment, Emotions, Emptiness, Freedom, training, true...
Nov 16 2004
Tassajara

Buddha Nature and the Ugly Duckling

Serial: SF-00056 Zendo lecture; feeling of not fitting in and not belonging that sends us towards spiritual practice. -
Lotus Sutra, Buddha Nature, Ego, Delusion, training, Precepts, stubbornness, Posture, Zendo,...
Nov 06 2004
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra Class

Serial: SF-03549 Dining Room Class -
Lotus Sutra, Ceremony, Perfect Wisdom, Buddha Nature, Nirvana, Zazen, Practice Period, Zazen...
Nov 03 2004
Tassajara

Sesshin Lecture

Serial: SF-03545 First Sesshin, Zendo Lecture -
Ceremony, Offering, Lotus Sutra, Suzuki Roshi, Chanting, Branching Streams, Karma, Giving-and-...
Oct 29 2004
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra Class

Serial: SF-03554 Dining Room Class 3 -
Lotus Sutra, Precepts, Daily Life, Nirvana, Bell, Renunciation, Samsara, Balance, Evil...
Oct 20 2004
Tassajara

Lotus Sutra Class

Serial: SF-03556 Dining Room Class 3 -
Lotus Sutra, Suzuki Roshi, Mahayana, Big Mind, Practice Period, Heart Sutra, Buddha Nature,...
Oct 20 2004
Tassajara

Discipline

Serial: SF-00077 Relationship with the rules while training. -
training, Practice Period, Vinaya, Emotions, Don't Know Mind, Mindfulness, Balance,...
Oct 20 2004

Breathing In and Breathing Out

Serial: SF-00934 One-day sitting lecture: Book of Serenity Case 3, Anapanasati Sutta, Six Subtle Dharma Gates -
Mindfulness, Dragons, Lotus Sutra, Concentration, Book of Serenity, Bodhidharma, Peace,...
Sep 18 2004
Green Gulch

Living The Good Life

Serial: SF-00933 Sunday Lecture -
Patience, Ordinary Mind, Mill Valley, Big Mind, Attachment, Commitment, Silence, Intimacy,...
Aug 29 2004
Green Gulch

Dining Room Lecture

Serial: SF-03172 -
Equanimity, Big Mind, Buddha Ancestors, Suzuki Roshi, Diversity, Nirvana, Enemies, Bell,...
Aug 18 2004
Tassajara

Non-Thinking and the Twelve-Fold Chain of Causation

Serial: SF-00968 Sunday Lecture -
Lotus Sutra, Instruction, Four Noble Truths, Posture, Peace, Letting Go, Separation, Non-...
Jul 18 2004
Green Gulch

Eight Awakenings

Serial: SF-03589 Zendo Lecture -
Mindfulness, Greed, Attachment, Daily Life, Right Speech, Posture, Precepts, Zendo, Don't...
Jul 16 2004
Tassajara

Which Is The Real Seijo?

Serial: SF-00967 One-day sitting lecture: when our "soul is split", what is true? Just sitting in the midst of samsara. -
Letting Go, Four Noble Truths, Suzuki Roshi, Big Mind, Subject-and-Object, Buddha Ancestors,...
Jun 19 2004
Green Gulch

Buddhism, Christianity, War and Peace

Serial: SF-00939 Sunday Lecture: Two types of training: compassion and wisdom (wisdom: the entire universe is the true human body); US history; Christianity (is evil 'outside' or not); Mara compared with Devil; Review of "Passion of the Christ" -
First Principle, Hate, Evil, Faith, Soto Zen, Heart Sutra, Bodhidharma, Separation, Enemies,...
May 16 2004
Green Gulch

One-Day Sitting Lecture

Serial: SF-01022 This human body is the entire world in the ten directions. Can you be stopped? Bodhicitta. Compassion. Thinking. Hatred. Not indulging in habitual thoughts of hatred. Say no. "Body and mind study of the way" Dogen fascicle.... -
Birth-and-Death, Bodhisattva Precepts, Manjushri, Hate, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi, realization,...
Mar 20 2004
Green Gulch

Wednesday Lecture

Serial: SF-01023 Linda Ruth with her sick mother. The mountain lion. The bobcat. The rat. New film, "The Passion of Christ". Self-restraint. Mindfulness of the body. Angulimala. -
Hate, Current Events, First Principle, Passions, Precepts, Doubt, training, realization,...
Mar 17 2004
Green Gulch

Housekeeping

Serial: SF-01024 Sunday Lecture: Children's Program. The Indian children who used to live here. Indian story about how the world was made. Staying home and accomplishing the way. Gateway into enlightenment. Heart Sutra. The Buddha's enlightenment... -
New Year, Bodhisattva Precepts, Separation, Practice Period, Precepts, Mill Valley, Heart...
Feb 01 2004
Green Gulch

January Class

Serial: SF-03487 -
Mindfulness, Posture, Instruction, Duality, Four Noble Truths, Four Foundations, Delusion,...
Jan 13 2004
Green Gulch

The Power of Ten

Serial: SF-00985 The silence of 'don't know'; outer space Vimalakirti Sutra; radiant vision of alternate universes. Motivation for literary inventiveness - world is not only what we think; first calm the mind, then open the sutras; ... (?) the... -
Vimalakirti, Birth-and-Death, Liberation, Mill Valley, Bell, Lotus Sutra, Heart Sutra,...
Dec 14 2003
Green Gulch

Sesshin Lecture

Serial: SF-02750 -
Vow, causation, Faith, Six Realms, Passions, Bell, New Year, confusion, Birth-and-Death,...
Dec 06 2003
Green Gulch

Sesshin Lecture

Serial: 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 (?) 1 - what has long been neglected, changing karmic... -
Family Practice, Emotions, Suzuki Roshi, Peace, Equanimity, Bowing, Dragons, Sangha, Greed,...
Dec 03 2003
Green Gulch

2003.11.19-serial.00156

Serial: SF-00156 Wednesday talk. Ecopsychology; desires, needs, narcissism; nurturing through zazen. -
Karma, Buddha Nature, Practice Period, Ceremony, Buddha Ancestors, Ego, Precepts, Tassajara...
Nov 19 2003

Dogen Class: Miracles

Serial: SF-02733 -
Zazen, Intimacy, Lineage, Dream World, Lotus Sutra, Teacher-and-Student, Don't Know Mind...
Nov 17 2003
Green Gulch

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

2010.10.03-serial.00055

Serial: SF-00055 -
Practice Period, training, Conversation, Dharma Transmission, Ordination, Commitment,...
Oct 08 2003

2003.08.10-serial.00079

Serial: SF-00079 Zendo Lecture -
Birth-and-Death, Separation, Letting Go, Intimacy, Liberation, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,...
Aug 10 2003

Zendo Lecture

Serial: SF-01787 -
Oneness, Religion, realization, Observe, Practice Period, Instruction, Repentance, Composure,...
Jul 02 2003
Tassajara

Ethics

Serial: 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 rights. -
Precepts, Delusion, Freedom, Three Treasures, Bodhisattva Precepts, Humility, Commitment,...
Jun 29 2003
Green Gulch

Dogen - Being Familiar With The Entire Body

Serial: SF-00039 Sunday talk. Practice, realization, expression; Dogen's letters to nun Ryugen -
realization, Buddha Ancestors, Delusion, Precepts, true dharma, Lotus Sutra, Oneness,...
May 18 2003

Sunday Lecture

Serial: 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, Separation...
Apr 06 2003
Green Gulch

Sesshin Lecture

Serial: SF-03586 -
Fox, Practice Period, Precepts, Teacher-and-Student, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Attachment...
Mar 2003
Tassajara

Sunday Lecture

Serial: SF-00982 -
New Year, Hate, Bodhidharma, Vow, Peace, Delusion, Cultivation, Harmonizing, Offering, Suzuki...
Dec 29 2002
Green Gulch

Pages