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The talks below are listed in chronological order. The abbreviations used are defined as follows:

SAT Saturday Dharma Talk
SES Sesshin Dharma Talk


CD# TYPE    TITLE (cassettes also available through 10-25-03-CJB)
08-19-03-EH  SES Pebble-Pond-Ripples (Elizabeth)
08-21-03-EB SES “Appreciate This Precious Life” (Ezra)
09-07-03-EB SAT At Home in the Muddy Water (Ezra)
09-13-03-EB SAT The Aspiration to Be Free (Ezra)
09-27-03-EH SAT Mindfulness in Action (Elizabeth)
10-04-03-EB SAT Three Helpful Daily Life Practices (Ezra)
10-11-03-EB SES Transforming the Energy of Anger (Ezra)
10-18-03-EH SAT Maturity Levels as Practice (Elizabeth)
11-01-03-EB SAT What Is the Essence of Practice? (Ezra)
11-08-03-EB SES “Cheerful Perseverance Is the Key to Success” (Ezra)
11-09-03-EH SES Burnout and Aspiration (Elizabeth)
11-29-03-EH SAT Aspiration and Burnout - Panel Discussion
12-27-03-EB SES The Great Escapes (Ezra)
12-29-03-EH SES What’s Really Important (Elizabeth)
01-03-04-EB SAT Working with Emotional Pain (Ezra)
01-24-04-EH SAT The Razor’s Edge - a MAP - ? (Elizabeth)
02-14-04-EH SES Fingers Pointing at the Moon (Elizabeth)
02-21-04-EB SAT Saying “Yes” to Difficulties (Ezra)
03-06-04-EH SAT Koans of Conditioning (Elizabeth)
03-20-04-EB SAT What Is Practice in This Moment? (Ezra)
04-03-04-EB SAT Is This All There Is? (Ezra)
04-06-04-EH SES Clouds and Sky (Elizabeth)
04-08-04-EB SES Forgiveness Practice (Ezra)
04-17-04-EH SAT The Chemistry and Physics of Practice (Elizabeth)
05-01-04-EB SAT The Cocoon of Fear (Ezra)
05-14-04-EB SES Two Streams in Practice (Ezra)
05-15-04-EH SES Not 2: Relying on Heartmind - (Dual Awareness) (Elizabeth)
05-29-04-EH SAT Hakuin and Hurting (Elizabeth)
06-19-04-EB SAT Basic Practice Questions (Ezra)
06-22-04-EB SES Detours in Practice (Ezra)
06-24-04-EH SES Missing Peace (Elizabeth)
07-03-04-EH SAT Practice Period - Gaps in Practice (Elizabeth)
07-17-04-EB SAT Student Teacher Relationship, Part 2 (Ezra)
08-07-04-EB SAT The Bigger Picture (Ezra)
08-14-04-EH SAT Awakening in Hard Times – Panel Discussion (Elizabeth)
08-17-04-EH SES The Silence (Elizabeth)
08-19-04-EB SES Freedom from Fear (Ezra)
08-28-04-EH SAT Emptiness Is Form (Experiencing Inside-Out) (Elizabeth)
09-11-04-EB SAT The Three Breaths Practice (Ezra)
09-25-04-EH SAT Panel Discussion (Elizabeth)
10-09-04-EB SES What Is Meditation? (Ezra)
10-16-04-EB SAT Practicing with Politics (Ezra)
10-30-04-EH SAT Current Events and What Is Most Important (Elizabeth)
11-12-04-EB SES Basic Sitting Instructions (Ezra)
11-13-04-EH SES Kyosei’s Voice of the Raindrops: Finding Our True Voice (Elizabeth)
11-27-04-EB SAT Do the Right Thing (Ezra)
12-04-04-EB SAT Ordinary Mind Teachers Panel (Elizabeth, Ezra, Elihu, Barry, Larry, Anna)
12-11-04-EB SAT Basic Questions, Part 2 (Ezra)
12-27-04-EB SES The Three Breaths Practice, Part 2 (Ezra)
12-29-04-EH SES Lonesome Valley, Path of Liberation (Elizabeth)
01-08-05-EH SAT New Year’s Resolution: Remembering to Remember (Elizabeth)
01-22-05-EB SAT Saying “Yes”; Intentional Suffering (Ezra)
02-19-05-EB SES Laziness and Intention (Ezra)
02-26-05-EH SAT Loss (Elizabeth)
03-05-05-EB SAT “Let It Be” (Ezra)
03-19-05-EB SAT Is Practice Hard? (Ezra)
03-22-05-EH SES Grow Up, Wake Up (Elizabeth)
03-24-05-EB SES Four Steps to Love (Ezra)
04-02-05-EH SAT Precepts: Skillful Speech (Elizabeth)
04-09-05-EB SAT The Myth of Fixing Ourselves (Ezra)
04-16-05-EH SAT Community, Communication, and Intention (Elizabeth)
04-30-05-EB SAT Most Helpful Techniques (Ezra)
05-14-05-EH SES Where’s the Zen I: Dual Awareness (Not Two) (Elizabeth)
05-15-05-EB SES Nothing’s Wrong – Just Be (Ezra)
05-21-05-EH SAT Where’s the Zen II: Words (Elizabeth)
06-04-05-EB SAT The False Promise (Ezra)
06-18-05-EH SAT Avoidance, Ambition and Aspiration – Practice Period Panel (Elizabeth)
06-21-05-EB SES Psychology of Lying (Ezra)
06-24-05-EH SES “And” (Elizabeth)
07-02-05-EB SAT What Is Practice Period 2005? (Ezra)
07-09-05-EH SAT Gaps - Both Sides of the Coin (Elizabeth)
07-23-05-EB SAT The Five Pillars of Zen (Ezra)
08-06-05-EH SAT Musical Vows Bach Chorale #8 and Comments (Elizabeth)
08-09-05-EH SES How Should it Be; How Is it Really? (Elizabeth)
08-12-05-EB SES (How) “to See the Face of God” (Ezra)
08-20-05-EB SAT The Face of God Revisited (Ezra)
08-27-05-EH SAT Full Awareness (Elizabeth)
09-10-05-EB SAT Saying “Yes” to “Life” (Ezra)
09-17-05-EB SAT Foundations of Zen (Ezra)
10-15-05-EB SAT The Illusions We Live Out of (Ezra)
10-22-05-EH SES Right Food -- Right Effort (Elizabeth)
10-28-05-EB SAT Saying “Yes” to “Life,” Public Talk (Ezra)
10-29-05-EH SAT Rosa Parks (Elizabeth)
11-12-05-EB SAT Three Essential Qualities (Ezra)
11-19-05-EH SAT Eat Now -- Digest Later (Elizabeth)
12-03-05-EB SAT Q and A on Saying Yes (Ezra)
12-10-05-EH SAT Did You Help? (Elizabeth)
12-24-05-EB SAT Real Questions Can Help (Ezra)
12-27-05-EB SES Me Stuff and Being-Awareness (Ezra)
12-30-05-EH SES Hitting Bottom (Elizabeth)
01-15-06-EH SES Adversity and Awakening, Santa Rosa Zen Group Sesshin (Elizabeth)
01-21-06-EB SAT Concepts and Actions in Practice (Ezra)
01-28-06-EH SAT Vows and Precepts: Living ‘As if Awake’ (Elizabeth)
02-11-06-EB SAT Me Stuff and Being-Awareness, Part 2 (Ezra)
02-18-06-EB SES Perseverance, Willingness and Mercy (Ezra)
02-25-06-EH SAT Two-Faced Ego: “Bad Me” and Positive Persona (Elizabeth)
03-11-06-EB SAT Practice and Paradox (Ezra)
03-25-06-EB SAT Practicing with Pain (Ezra)
04-01-06-EH SAT Parrots, Rottweilers, Witness - Cultivating Awakening in Each Moment (Elizabeth)
04-11-06-EH SES Transitions – Appreciating Joko (Elizabeth)
04-14-06-EB SES The Essential Questions (Ezra)
05-06-06-EB SAT The Essential Questions, Part 2 (Ezra)
05-13-06-EH SES The Lens of Dual Awareness (Elizabeth)
05-14-06-EB SES Cultivating Mercy (Ezra)
05-27-06-EH SAT Loss and Change as the Path (Elizabeth)
06-03-06-EB SAT The Things We Fear Most (Ezra)
06-17-06-EB SAT Approval Seeking as a Barrier to Love (Ezra)
06-23-06-EH SES Aspiration, Accountability and Amnesia (Elizabeth)
06-24-06-EB SES No Turning Back (Ezra)
07-08-06-EH SAT How can I help
07-15-06 EB SAT Transforming Anger
07-22-06 EH SAT Doesn’t Practice Work
07-29-06 EB SAT Practice Period
08-05-06 EH SAT Path to Awakening
08-12-06 EB SAT Inner Transformation
08-15-06-EB SES Lenses of Awareness
08-16-06-EH SES Life-ing + Loving, Compassion + Kindness
08-18-06-EB SAT More On Awareness
08-29-06-EB SAT Practice Period
09-09-06-EB SAT Cocoon of Fear
09-16-06-EH SAT Kindness, Communication & Relationships
10-14-06-EB SAT Separation and Connection
10-21-06-EB SES Just Be
10-22-06-EH SES Seeds of Awareness
10-28-06-EH SAT Needs, Wants & Practice
11-04-06-EB SAT Living Awake
11-18-06-EB SAT Camera Lens of Awareness
11-25-06-EH SAT Thankfulness
12-02-06-EB SAT Five Questions (again)
12-09-06-EH SAT Communication and Compassion
12-16-06-EB SAT Approval Seeking (part II)
12-23-06-EH SAT Tradition or What’s Most Important?
12-27-06-EH SES Awareness Sandwich
12-29-06-EB SES Five Basic Fears
12-30-06- SES Your Last Daisan Question (open)
01-06-06-EB SAT Levels of Understanding
01-27-07-EB SAT Forgiveness Revisited
02-03-07-EH SAT Emptiness and Running On Empty
02-10-07 EB SAT Three Phases in Practice
02-17-07-EB SES Let It Be
02-18-07-EH SES One Week to Live
02-24-07-EH SAT One Week to Live Revisited
03-03-07-EB SAT Working with Anger
03-10-07-EH SAT The Unexpected
03-24-07-EB SAT Practicing with Relationship Difficulties
03-31-07-EH SAT Memorial for Soen Kakagawa Roshi
04-04-07-EH SES Holidays, Holy Days and Wholeness
04-06-07-EB SES Loving Kindness Revisited
04-06-07-EB SES Loving Kindness Guided Meditation
04-14-07-EB SAT Fear and Practicing With It
04-28-07-EB SAT What is Zen
05-19-07-EH SAT Auschwitz: My Name is Sonia
05-26-07-EB SAT Trip to Auschwitz
06-02-07-EH SAT Atonement and Reconciliation An Introduction
06-09-07-EB SAT Confusion Revisited
06-16-07-EH SAT Reconciliation and Atonement II: Specifics
06-22-07-EB SES Nothing to Do, Nowhere to Go, No One to Be
06-23-07-EH SES Remorse and Reconciliation
06-30-07-EB SAT Basics of Sitting
07-07-07-EH SAT The Secret of Zen
07-14-07-EB SAT Practice Basics Revisited
07-21-07-EH SAT Illuminating the Shadows
07-28-07-EH SAT Reflections on the Center
08-04-07-EB SAT Healed in Our Difficulties
08-11-07-EB SAT Analyzing as a Detour
08-18-07-EB SAT Basic Practice Questions
08-22-07-EH SES Choreographing butterflies: procedures and the path of awakening
08-24-07-EB SES Sesshin practice
09-01-07-EH SAT Remembering Mother Theresa
09-08-07-EB SAT Practice: Three Essential Phases
09-15-07-EB SAT Practice Period
09-22-07-EB SAT Alarm Clocks
09-29-07-EH SAT Anger as Practice: part 1
10-06-07-EB SES Illusions we Live From
11-10-07-EB SAT Anger Revisited
11-17-07-EH SAT Emotions as Smoke
12-01-07-EB SAT Karma and the Path
12-08-07-EH SAT Mindful Change
12-15-07-EB SAT What is the Function of ZCSD
12-22-07-EH SAT

On Steven and Ondrea Levine

12-27-07 EH SES Keeping Quiet
12-28-07 EB SES Perseverance is the Key
12-30-07 EB/EH  SES Open Daison
01-05-08 EB SAT Basic Practice Questions
01-12-08 EH SAT Practicing Presence
01-26-08 EB SAT The Three Phases of Practice Revisited
02-02-08 EH SAT Five Dimensions of HeartMind
02-09-08 EB SAT Fear
02-16-08 EB SES Curiosity - Saying Yes
02-17-08 EH  SES The Seeds of Heart-Mind: Part 1
02-23-08 EB SAT Fear Q and A: Part 3
03-01-08 EH SAT Seeds and Dimensions: A Blueprint
03-08-08 EB SAT More on Fear: Commenting on “The Protagonist” (film)
03-15-08 EH SAT Tuning Up the Sensing Instrument
03-22-08 EB SAT Confusion Revisited
03-27-08 EB SES Detours
04-05-08 EH SAT Changing Brains, Awakening Heartmind
04-12-08 EB SAT Seeking Approval
04-19-08 Student (Al Z.) SAT Mystery of Knowing/Not Knowing
04-26-08 EH SAT WIPITS revisiting an upset exercise
05-03-08 EB SAT Mind Mapping
05-10-08 Student (Kate W.) SAT Not Knowing
05-17-08 EH SAT Reactions Revisited
05-24-08 EB SAT Doubt and Surrender
05-31-08 EH SAT Breathing: the head, heart, and hara
06-07-08 EB SAT Gratitude
06-14-08 EH SAT Staying in Learning Mode
06-20-08 EB SES Let it Be
06-21-08 EH SES 2 Delusions
     

Tapes now available on CD:
582B   On Loving Kindness Practice, 11-20-99 (Ezra)



INSTRUMENTS OF PEACE



Meditations and Music with Elizabeth Hamilton, Peter Sprague, and Ezra Bayda