Talk List
This list reflects talks that are in the online audio archive. There are many talks that are not yet in the online archive.
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1979
- Fukanzazengi: Dogen’s Universal Recommendation for Zazen – Talk 1
- Fukanzazengi: Dogen’s Universal Recommendation for Zazen – Talk 2
- Fukanzazengi: Dogen’s Universal Recommendation for Zazen – Talk 3
- Fukanzazengi: Dogen’s Universal Recommendation for Zazen – Talk 4
- Fukanzazengi: Dogen’s Universal Recommendation for Zazen – Talk 5
- Fukanzazengi: Dogen’s Universal Recommendation for Zazen – Talk 6
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Fukanzazengi: Dogen’s Universal Recommendation for Zazen – Talk 7
- Diamond Sutra: Provisional Being
- Diamond Sutra: Emptiness
- Diamond Sutra: Giving and Non-Covetousness
- Blue Cliff Record Case 1: The Highest Meaning of the Holy Truths, Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 1: The Highest Meaning of the Holy Truths, Talk 2
1980
- Blue Cliff Record Case 2: The Ultimate Path Is Without Difficulty, Talk 1
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Blue Cliff Record Case 2: The Ultimate Path Is Without Difficulty, Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 3: Master Ma Is Unwell, Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 3: Master Ma Is Unwell, Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 4: Te Shan Carrying His Bundle, Talk 1
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Blue Cliff Record Case 4: Te Shan Carrying His Bundle, Talk 2
- Karma: Two Aspects
- Karma: Twelve-Link Causation
- Karma: Where Karma Originates
- Karma: Unmanifested Karma
- Karma: Taking Care of Karma
- Karma: Karmic Retribution in Present Life
- Karma: Karma as Energy/Emptiness
- Blue Cliff Record Case 5 Talk 1
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Blue Cliff Record Case 5 Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 7 Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 7 Talk 2
1981
- Blue Cliff Record Case 8 Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 8 Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 9
- Blue Cliff Record Case 10
- Blue Cliff Record Case 11
- Blue Cliff Record Case 12 – Part 1 and 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 13
- Blue Cliff Record Case 14
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Blue Cliff Record Case 15
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Blue Cliff Record Case 18: National Teacher Chung’s Seamless Monument
- Blue Cliff Record Case 20 Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 20 Talk 2
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Blue Cliff Record Case 22
- Shobogenzo Gyobutsu Igi: Majestic Activity – Talk 1
- Shobogenzo Gyobutsu Igi: Majestic Activity – Talk 2
- Shobogenzo Gyobutsu Igi: Majestic Activity – Talk 3
- Shobogenzo Gyobutsu Igi: Majestic Activity – Talk 4
- Shobogenzo Gyobutsu Igi: Majestic Activity – Talk 5
- Shobogenzo Gyobutsu Igi: Majestic Activity – Talk 6
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Shobogenzo Gyobutsu Igi: Majestic Activity – Talk 7
- Blue Cliff Record Case 23 Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 23 Talk 3
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Blue Cliff Record Case 24
- Blue Cliff Record Case 25: The Hermit of Lotus Flower Peak Holds Up His Staff, Talk 1
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Blue Cliff Record Case 25: The Hermit of Lotus Flower Peak Holds Up His Staff, Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 27 Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 27 Talk 2
1982
- Blue Cliff Record Case 28
- Blue Cliff Record Case 29 Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 29 Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 30
- Blue Cliff Record Case 32
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Blue Cliff Record Case 33
- Blue Cliff Record Case 34: Yang Shan Asks “Where Have You Come From?”
- Blue Cliff Record Case 35: The Dialogue of Manjusri and Wu Cho
- Blue Cliff Record Case 36: Ch’ang Sha Wandering in the Mountains, Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 36: Ch’ang Sha Wandering in the Mountains, Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 37: P’an Shan’s There Is Nothing in the World
- Blue Cliff Record Case 38: Feng Hsueh’s Workings of the Iron Ox, Talk 1
1983
- Blue Cliff Record Case 38: Feng Hsueh’s Workings of the Iron Ox, Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 39: Yun Men’s Flowering Hedge, Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 39: Yun Men’s Flowering Hedge, Talk 2
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Blue Cliff Record Case 40: Nan Ch’uan’s It’s Like a Dream, Talk 1
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Book of Equanimity: Case 52
- Blue Cliff Record Case 40: Nan Ch’uan’s It’s Like a Dream, Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 41: Chao Chou’s Man Who Has Died the Great Death, Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 41: Chao Chou’s Man Who Has Died the Great Death, Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 42: Layman P’ang’s Good Snowflakes, Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 42: Layman P’ang’s Good Snowflakes, Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 43: Tung Shan’s No Cold or Heat, Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 43 Talk 2: The Five Ranks
- Blue Cliff Record Case 44: Ho Shan’s Knowing How to Beat the Drum, Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 44: Ho Shan’s Knowing How to Beat the Drum, Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 45: Chao Chou’s Seven-Pound Cloth Shirt, Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 45: Chao Chou’s Seven-Pound Cloth Shirt, Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 46: Ching Ch’ing’s Sound of Raindrops, Talk 1
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Blue Cliff Record Case 46: Ching Ch’ing’s Sound of Raindrops, Talk 2
- Westerners’ Reluctance Toward Bowing – Part 1
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Westerners’ Reluctance Toward Bowing – Part 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 49 Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 49 Talk 2
1984
- Blue Cliff Record Case 50
- Blue Cliff Record Case 51 Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 51 Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 52 Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 53
- Blue Cliff Record Case 54
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Blue Cliff Record Case 55 Talk 1
- Precepts for Lay Ordination – Part 1
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Precepts for Lay Ordination – Part 2
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 1
- Mindfulness – Talk 1
- Mindfulness – Talk 2
- Mindfulness – Talk 4
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Mindfulness – Talk 5
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 3
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Blue Cliff Record Case 55 Talk 3
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 5
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Blue Cliff Record Case 57 Talk 1
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 6
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Blue Cliff Record Case 57 Talk 2
- The Awakening of Faith Talk 7
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 8
- The Awakening of Faith Talk 10: Time
- The Awakening of Faith Talk 11: Alayavijnana and Tathagatagarbha
- The Awakening of Faith Talk 12: Tathagatagarbha
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 13: Tathagatagarbha and Alayavijinana
- Shobogenzo Juundo Shiki: Rules for the Monks Annex – Talk 1
- Shobogenzo Juundo Shiki: Rules for the Monks Annex – Talk 2
- Shobogenzo Juundo Shiki: Rules for the Monks Annex – Talk 3
- Shobogenzo Juundo Shiki: Rules for the Monks Annex – Talk 4
- Shobogenzo Juundo Shiki: Rules for the Monks Annex – Talk 5
- Shobogenzo Juundo Shiki: Rules for the Monks Annex – Talk 7
- Shobogenzo Juundo Shiki: Rules for the Monks Annex – Talk 8
- Shobogenzo Juundo Shiki: Rules for the Monks Annex – Talk 10
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Shobogenzo Juundo Shiki: Rules for the Monks Annex – Talk 11
- Blue Cliff Record Case 58 Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 58 Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 59
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Blue Cliff Record Case 60
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A Basis for Practice
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Blue Cliff Record Case 61 Talk 1
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 23
- Book of Equanimity: Dongshan’s “Always Close” – Talk 1
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Book of Equanimity: Dongshan’s “Always Close” – Talk 2
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Blue Cliff Record Case 61 Talk 2
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 24
- The Four Sustenances – Talk 1
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The Four Sustenances – Talk 2
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Blue Cliff Record Case 62 Talk 1
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Buddha’s Impermancence
- Blue Cliff Record Case 62 Talk 2
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Blue Cliff Record Case 63
- Suffering: Three Stages
- Always There Is a Scream: Track 1 of 2
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Always There Is a Scream: Track 2 of 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 64
1985
- Buddha Nature: Something Universal
- True Heart is not Infactuation
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The Simple Practice
- Blue Cliff Record Case 67
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Blue Cliff Record Case 68 Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 68 Talk 2
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Blue Cliff Record Case 69 Talk 1
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Buddha Dharma: Big Sky Does not Bother with the Function of a Small Cloud
- Blue Cliff Record Case 69 Talk 2: On Note 2, Symmetry and Unsymmetry
- Blue Cliff Record Case 69 Talk 3
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Blue Cliff Record Case 70 Talk 1
- Zazen and Creating Space
- Truth, Phenomenology, Noumenology
- Creating Space Between
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Letting Go of Labels
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Blue Cliff Record Case 71
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 29
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Blue Cliff Record Case 72
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 30
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Blue Cliff Record Case 73
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 31
- Blue Cliff Record Case 74
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Blue Cliff Record Case 75
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 32
- Two Points to Consider: The Great Matter of Birth and Death Saving all Being
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Sharing Our Lives: The Practice of Attendance (Using the Selfish Self)
- Blue Cliff Record Case 76
1986
- Lay Ordination Lecture 1 of 7: Significance of Ordination
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 33
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 34
- Principles of Practice: Purpose of Practice
- Principles of Practice: Bodhicitta
- Principles of Practice: High Resolve
- Principles of Practice: Faith
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Principles of Practice: Direct Transmission
- The Awakening of Faith Talk 35
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 36
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 37
- Book of Equanimity: Case 5 – Talk 1
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Book of Equanimity: Case 5 – Talk 2
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Lay Ordination Lecture 6 of 7: Three Collective Pure Precepts
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The Awakening of Faith Talk 38 – Final Talk
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Lay Ordination Lecture 7 of 7: Ten Grave Prohibitory Precepts
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The Goldenness of the Earth, the Sweet Milk of the Long River
- Meal Chants – Talk 1
- Meal Chants – Talk 2
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Meal Chants – Talk 3
- Blue Cliff Record Case 78 Talk 1
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Blue Cliff Record Case 78 Talk 2
- Verse of Opening the Sutra
- Verse of Closing the Sutra
- Settling in the Vast Openness of the Sky
- Taking Refuge in the Buddha
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Verse of Offering Incense
- Shobogenzo Hossho: Dharma Nature – Talk 5
- Shobogenzo Hossho: Dharma Nature – Talk 6
- Shobogenzo Hossho: Dharma Nature – Talk 7
- Shobogenzo Hossho: Dharma Nature – Talk 8
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Shobogenzo Hossho: Dharma Nature – Talk 9
- Shobogenzo Tsuki: The Moon – Talk 1
- Shobogenzo Tsuki: The Moon – Talk 2
- Shobogenzo Tsuki: The Moon – Talk 3
- Shobogenzo Tsuki: The Moon – Talk 4
- Shobogenzo Tsuki: The Moon – Talk 5
- Shobogenzo Tsuki: The Moon – Talk 6
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Shobogenzo Tsuki: The Moon – Talk 7
- Shobogenzo Hossho: Dharma Nature – Talk 10
- Shobogenzo Hossho: Dharma Nature – Talk 11
- Shobogenzo Hossho: Dharma Nature – Talk 12
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Shobogenzo Hossho: Dharma Nature – Talk 13
- Shobogenzo Kokyo: Form and Mirror – Talk 1
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Shobogenzo Kokyo: Form and Mirror – Talk 2
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T’ien T’ai Buddhism: Historical Background
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Zen and Writing: Word and its Spirit
- T’ien T’ai Buddhism: Outline of 4-Fold Teaching – Talk 1
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T’ein T’ai Buddhism: Outline of 4-Fold Teaching – Talk 2
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Blue Cliff Record Case 79 Talk 1
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T’ien T’ai Buddhism: Conclusion
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Bowing
- Shobogenzo Gabyo: Painting of a Rice Cake – Talk 1
- Shobogenzo Gabyo: Painting of a Rice Cake – Talk 3
- Shobogenzo Gabyo: Painting of a Rice Cake – Talk 4
- Shobogenzo Gabyo: Painting of a Rice Cake – Talk 5
- Shobogenzo Gabyo: Painting of a Rice Cake – Talk 6
- Shobogenzo Gabyo: Painting of a Rice Cake – Talk 7
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Commentary on Shobogenzo Gabyo (Painted Rice Cake)
- Obedience
1987
- Dogen Four Points: Track 1 of 2
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Dogen Four Points: Track 2 of 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 80 Talk 1
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Blue Cliff Record Case 80 Talk 2
- Zazen: Dropping off Body and Mind
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Inconceivable, Universal, Cosmic Life
- Blue Cliff Record Case 81 Talk 1
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Blue Cliff Record Case 81 Talk 2
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Platform Sutra – Talk 1
- Shobogenzo Bendowa: Entry to the Buddha Dharma
- Shobogenzo Bendowa: Dogen’s Questions & Answers – Talk 1
- Shobogenzo Bendowa: Dogen’s Questions & Answers – Talk 2
- Shobogenzo Bendowa: Dogen’s Questions & Answers – Talk 3
- Shobogenzo Bendowa: Dogen’s Questions & Answers – Talk 4
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Shobogenzo Bendowa: Dogen’s Questions & Answers – Talk 5
- Platform Sutra – Talk 2
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Platform Sutra – Talk 3
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Living in Vow Life after Life
- Platform Sutra – Talk 4
- Platform Sutra – Talk 5
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Platform Sutra – Talk 6
- Deepening the Experience of Our Lives – Talk 1
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Deepening the Experience of Our Lives – Talk 2
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Platform Sutra – Talk 7
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Prajna Paramita and Emptiness
- Genjokoan: Talk 1 (Egolessness)
- Genjokoan: Talk 2 (Consciousness)
- Genjokoan: Talk 3 (Flow)
- Genjokoan: Manas: Spontaneous, Perpetual, Homogeneous
- Obon Memorial – Part 1
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Obon Memorial – Part 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 84 Talk 1
- Blue Cliff Record Case 84 Talk 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 84 Talk 3: Impermanence and the Meaning of Silence
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Blue Cliff Record Case 84 Talk 4: Three Aspects of Buddha’s Silence
- Shobogenzo Sansuikyo: Eastern Mountains Traveling on the Water
- On a Poem by the Boatman: Fishing with a Straight Hook
- What is Right Human Effort – Part 1
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What is Right Human Effort – Part 2
- Blue Cliff Record Case 86 Talk 1
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Blue Cliff Record Case 86 Talk 2
- Wisdom of Living
- Chanting Practice
- Disporting with the Buddhas: Transformation through Play
1988
- Lay Ordination Lecture (2nd Series: 1 of 3): Depending on the Dharma
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Lay Ordination Lecture (2nd Series, 2 of 3): The Need and Way of Repentance
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Recording of Chants
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Lay Ordination Lecture: (2nd Series, 3 of 3): Restraint and Extermination
- Shobogenzo Kuge: Flowers in the Sky – Talk 1
- Shobogenzo Kuge: Flowers in the Sky – Talk 2
- Shobogenzo Kuge: Flowers in the Sky – Talk 3
- Shobogenzo Kuge: Flowers in the Sky – Talk 4
- Shobogenzo Kuge: Flowers in the Sky – Talk 5
- Shobogenzo Kuge: Flowers in the Sky – Talk 6
- Shobogenzo Kuge: Flowers in the Sky – Talk 7
- Shobogenzo Kuge: Flowers in the Sky – Talk 8
- Shobogenzo Kuge: Flowers in the Sky – Talk 9
- Shobogenzo Kuge: Flowers in the Sky – Talk 10
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Shobogenzo Kuge: Flowers in the Sky – Talk 11
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Shobogenzo Kuge: Flowers in the Sky – Talk 12
- Blue Cliff Record Case 87 Talk 1
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Blue Cliff Record Case 87 Talk 2
- Shobogenzo Baika: Plum Blossoms – Talk 1
- Shobogenzo Baika: Plum Blossoms – Talk 2
- Shobogenzo Baika: Plum Blossoms – Talk 3
- Shobogenzo Baika: Plum Blossoms – Talk 4
- Shobogenzo Baika: Plum Blossoms – Talk 5
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Shobogenzo Baika: Plum Blossoms – Talk 6
- Devotion: Walking Alone with Open Heart