Berkeley Zen Center Dharma Talks

By Berkeley Zen Center Dharma Talks

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Lectures, talks, and classes on Zen Buddhism from Shogakuji Temple, Berkeley Zen Center, in Berkeley, California, USA.

Episode Date
Aspects Class 3 of 4 on The Sandokai
Oct 31, 2025
Double-consciousness, racial melancholy, and meditation
Oct 18, 2025
Aspects Class 1 of 4 on the Sandokai
Oct 18, 2025
Sandokai: One Mind; difference and equality
Oct 11, 2025
Great Robe of Liberation
Oct 04, 2025
What is Time? Time is Love
Sep 27, 2025
Buddha Ancestors, Past, Present and Future
Sep 20, 2025
WHAT’S ZEN GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Sep 13, 2025
Sahā World
Sep 06, 2025
Work as a Practice of Care and Connection
Aug 30, 2025
Not Knowing
Aug 23, 2025
Engaging Today’s Chaos With A Beginner’s Mind
Aug 16, 2025
Remembering Hozan, and What Dogen would do now
Aug 09, 2025
the meditative factors of enlightenment
Aug 02, 2025
Remembering Ron Nestor
Jul 26, 2025
Dōkan – The Circle of the Way
Jul 19, 2025
Becoming Yourself
Jul 18, 2025
Difficult Conversations as Practice
Jul 12, 2025
Some practice with the Satipatthana Sutra
Jul 05, 2025
Taking Refuge
Jun 28, 2025
Awakening Together
Jun 15, 2025
Sixteen Bodhisattvas Enter the Bath BCR 78 #2
Jun 14, 2025
Zen Is Eternal Life
Jun 13, 2025
The Three Pure Precepts
Jun 12, 2025
Zazen As an Act of Devotion
Jun 11, 2025
Dogen’s “Power of the Robe”
Jun 07, 2025
Lotus Sutra Class 5 of 5
Jun 06, 2025
Practicing the Prajnaparamita Mantra
May 31, 2025
The Lotus Sutra Class Four of Five
May 30, 2025
A Fool for the Dharma
May 24, 2025
The Lotus Sutra Class Three of Five
May 23, 2025
16 Bodhisattvas Enter the Bath (Case 78 BCR)
May 17, 2025
The Lotus Sutra Class Two of Five
May 16, 2025
The Buddha who is Always Present and Always Teaching
May 10, 2025
The Lotus Sutra Class One of Five
May 09, 2025
The Three Refuges in Hard Times
Apr 26, 2025
Impermanence
Apr 12, 2025
Why we celebrate Buddha’s birthday
Apr 05, 2025
Talk on the Genjo Koan
Mar 29, 2025
How We Grow in Practice
Mar 22, 2025
Zen and the Pursuit of Happiness
Mar 08, 2025
Penetrating Anger as a Dharma Get in Turbulent Times
Mar 01, 2025
Impressions of Hozan
Feb 22, 2025
The Bodhisattva’s Four Methods of Guidance
Feb 15, 2025
Call Me By My True Names Class 3 of 3
Feb 12, 2025
Family Sangha Practice
Feb 08, 2025
Taking Refuge – Mutual Affinity with the Three Treasures
Feb 01, 2025
Call Me By My True Names Class 2 of 3
Jan 28, 2025
Uncertainty and Change as a Field of Practice
Jan 25, 2025
Feel It to Heal It
Jan 18, 2025
Call Me By My True Names Class 1 of 3
Jan 14, 2025
Dipping a Toe into Nagarjuna’s “Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way”
Jan 11, 2025
Foolish Sentient Beings
Dec 07, 2024
Falling in Fragility, Waking Up to Mutuality
Dec 06, 2024
Vows of Old Ancestor Eihei Dogen
Dec 05, 2024
Falling
Dec 04, 2024
Think Not Thinking
Dec 03, 2024
The Buddha’s Instructions for Sitting Meditation
Dec 02, 2024
Zen Therapy, Talk Therapy
Nov 30, 2024
Abbot’s Update
Nov 23, 2024
Choosing Love and Freedom
Nov 17, 2024
See As Is
Nov 16, 2024
Metta and Right Effort
Nov 09, 2024
Aspects Class 4 of 4 Ordinary Bodhisattvas
Nov 08, 2024
Ordinary Bodhisattva at the Election
Nov 02, 2024
Aspects Class 3 of 4 Ordinary Bodhisattvas
Nov 01, 2024
Aspects Class 2 of 4 Ordinary Bodhisattvas
Oct 26, 2024
Equanimity, Stories and Dharma
Oct 19, 2024
Aspects Class 1 of 4 Ordinary Bodhisattvas
Oct 17, 2024
Cultivating Metta, Remembering Maylie
Oct 12, 2024
Mindfully Facing Fear: Practicing with Aging, Illness and Death
Sep 28, 2024
Your Continuous Practice
Sep 21, 2024
Free Fall into Buddha’s Hand
Sep 14, 2024
Practicing With Not Knowing
Sep 07, 2024
Be Yourself
Aug 24, 2024
Synchronicity, Serendipity and Suchness
Aug 19, 2024
Bodhisattva Communication in Mutual Liberation
Aug 17, 2024
The Edge of Things
Aug 03, 2024
The First Brahmavihara
Jul 20, 2024
World Beyond Conditions
Jul 13, 2024
Trees and Politics
Jul 06, 2024
Objects and Altars
Jun 29, 2024
On Spiritual Friendship
Jun 22, 2024
Happiness, Breath, and Posture
Jun 15, 2024
Letting Go
Jun 14, 2024
Ordinary Mind, Outer Space and Samadhi
Jun 13, 2024
Why Practice?
Jun 08, 2024
Avalokiteshvara’s Thousand Hands and Eyes
Jun 01, 2024
Practice Period Class 4 of 4: Seeing One Thing Through
May 31, 2024
Finding Balance in our Lives Through Practice and Commitment
May 18, 2024
Light Brings You to Practice; Practice Reveals the Light
May 18, 2024
PRACTICE PERIOD CLASS 2 OF 4: SEEING ONE THING THROUGH
May 17, 2024
Harmonizing Breath, Body, and Mind: Zazen in Daily Life
May 11, 2024
Practice Period Class1 of 4: Seeing One Thing Through
May 11, 2024
Zazenkai/Center of the Universe
May 04, 2024
Practicing with Anxiety
Apr 27, 2024
Our Leaders Past and Present
Apr 20, 2024
Without Hindrances no Fears
Apr 13, 2024
CLASS ON THE HEART SUTRA 4 OF 4
Apr 05, 2024
CLASS ON THE HEART SUTRA 3 OF 4
Mar 29, 2024