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| 14 Jul 1996 | Dharma Quality Control - Roger Corless | 01:01:11 | |
How do we know if the teachings we hear are authentic? An historical look at Buddhism, its lineages, and finding a teacher that resonates with you. ______________
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| 08 Sep 1996 | Freedom Far and Near (partial) - Howie Cohn | 00:35:24 | |
Howie Cohn is a Vipassana teacher who founded the Mission Dharma sitting group in San Francisco in 1985, practiced meditation since 1972, led vipassana retreats since 1985, and is a senior teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Howie is known by his students for his kindheartedness and warm sense of humor. Howie has studied with many Asian and western teachers of several traditions, including Theravada, Zen, Dzogchen and Advaita Vedanta, and has been strongly influenced by contact with the Indian master H.W.L. Poonja. He has done postgraduate work in East/West Psychology and has a private counseling practice. ______________
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| 09 Nov 1996 | Relationships Forum | 03:26:51 | |
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| 10 Nov 1996 | Learning the Mind - Robina Courtin | 01:04:31 | |
Ven. Robina Courtin was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery in 1978. She has worked full-time since then for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition. She is now director of Liberation Prison Project, which supports the Buddhist practice of thousands of prisoners in the USA and Australia. ______________
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| 08 Dec 1996 | The Fourth Way - Robert Daniel Ennis | 00:47:21 | |
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| 09 Mar 1997 | Compassion - Jim Wilson | 00:56:11 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 27 Apr 1997 | Bodichitta - Amy Miller | 00:51:18 | |
Ven. Amy Miller came to Tibetan Buddhism in 1987. She has traveled on retreats in India, Nepal and the United States and acted as Tibet pilgrimage leader for the Institute of Noetic Science in 1987 and 2001. In 1990, Ven. Amy co-founded Tse Chen Ling Buddhist Center in San Francisco, California. She completed a solitary, seven-month retreat at the Vajrapani Institute where she was Director from 1995-2004. Ven. Amy was ordained as a Buddhist nun in June 2000 by Tibetan master Ven. Choden Rinpoche and has taught extensively since 1992. During most of 2005 and part of 2006, she organized and accompanied international teachings for the Tibetan Buddhist master, Ven. Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche. Her teaching style emphasizes a practical approach to integrating Buddhist philosophy into everyday life and helps people connect with meditation and mindfulness to gain a refreshing perspective on normally stressful living. ______________
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| 07 Jun 1997 | Friends of the Western Buddhist Order | 00:47:15 | |
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| 13 Jul 1997 | Somatic Techniques For Enhancing Buddhist Practice - Tony Richardson | 00:52:05 | |
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| 14 Sep 1997 | Creating Lasting Happiness - KT Shendrup Gyatso | 01:06:03 | |
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| 09 Nov 1997 | Teachers as Spiritual Friends - David Sunseri | 00:53:16 | |
Daishin David Sunseri is a Soto Zen monk in the tradition of Issan Dorsey and is a long-time member of GBF. ______________
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| 23 Nov 1997 | Ananda as a Role Model for Gay Male Buddhists - Mike Sweet | 00:57:49 | |
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| 30 Nov 1997 | Panel discussion - Roger Corless | 00:51:09 | |
For over 20 years, Roger Corless was a professor of Buddhism and Christianity at Duke University. After settling in the Bay Area in the late 1990s, he became a frequent contributor to GBF. He was also the author of several books, including "Vision of Buddhism: The Space Under the Tree." He died in January 2007. ______________
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| 08 Feb 1998 | Grief Practice - Mark Marion | 00:46:32 | |
Mark Marion is a psychotherapist with a practice that specializes in depression, anxiety and couples counseling. His Buddhist practice is in the Vipassana tradition. He contributed to both volumes of "Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists" and wrote a chapter for the book "Gay and Lesbian Mental Health: A Sourcebook for Practitioners" ______________
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| 05 Apr 1998 | What is a Buddhist? - Naga Raja | 00:44:19 | |
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| 26 Apr 1998 | AIDS Prevention in Vietnam - Douglas | 00:47:43 | |
Douglas spends half the year in Thailand and travels frequently to Vietnam providing condoms, information and literature to help prevent the spread of HIV. ______________
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| 10 May 1998 | Mother's Day - Kai Harper | 00:31:26 | |
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| 17 May 1998 | Renunciation: Meeting Your Edge - Michael Hyman | 00:49:19 | |
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| 14 Jun 1998 | Mindfulness - Dave Richo | 00:44:54 | |
David Richo, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, writer, and workshop leader. He shares his time between Santa Barbara and San Francisco, California. Dave combines psychological and spiritual perspectives in his work. His latest book is Ready: How to Know When to Go and When to Stay. (Shambhala, 2022). The website for books, talks, and events is davericho.com. ______________
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| 12 Jul 1998 | The Positive Value of the Negative Precepts - Roger Corless | 00:49:09 | |
For over 20 years, Roger Corless was a professor of Buddhism and Christianity at Duke University. After settling in the Bay Area in the late 1990s, he became a frequent contributor to GBF. He was also the author of several books, including "Vision of Buddhism: The Space Under the Tree." He died in January 2007. ______________
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| 19 Jul 1998 | Don Weipert | 00:44:19 | |
Don Weipert served many years as the coordinator of GBF’s Gay Prisoner Outreach Program. ______________
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| 02 Aug 1998 | Different Schools and Traditions - Jim Wilson | 00:54:09 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 09 Aug 1998 | Synchronicity - Dave Richo | 00:48:00 | |
David Richo, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, writer, and workshop leader. He shares his time between Santa Barbara and San Francisco, California. Dave combines psychological and spiritual perspectives in his work. His latest book is Ready: How to Know When to Go and When to Stay. (Shambhala, 2022). The website for books, talks, and events is davericho.com. ______________
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| 07 Sep 1998 | The Teacher-Student Relationship - Jim Wilson | 00:58:59 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 20 Sep 1998 | Sangha - Carol Newhouse | 00:46:59 | |
Carol Osmer Newhouse has studied Insight Meditation for more than 30 years and has been teaching for 20. She was given Dharma transmission by The Venerable Ruth Denison, student of the great meditation master U Ba Khin of Burma. She has studied with Dr. Rina Sircar of CIIS and Dr Thynn Thynn in Daily Life Practice. She is the founding teacher of the Lesbian Buddhist Sangha in Berkeley, and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. ______________
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| 03 Oct 1998 | The First Two Precepts - Jim Wilson | 00:49:22 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 25 Oct 1998 | Loving Kindness Practice - David Sunseri | 00:36:57 | |
Daishin David Sunseri is a Soto Zen monk in the tradition of Issan Dorsey and is a long-time member of GBF. ______________
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| 01 Nov 1998 | The Fourth Precept and Sex - Jim Wilson | 00:55:51 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 06 Dec 1998 | Emptiness Part 1 - Jim Wilson | 00:48:06 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 20 Dec 1998 | Buddhist Alliance for Social Engagement - Tova Green and Paul Shephard | 00:46:10 | |
Tova Green began sitting at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1990 after many years of Vipassana practice. She became a resident there in 1999 and was ordained as a priest in 2003 by Eijun Linda Cutts. Tova co-founded the Queer Dharma Group at the Center and is currently the Director of the San Francisco Zen Center's City Center. Paul Shepard has been in recovery and concurrently practicing vipassana meditation since 1990. An active member of GBF since 1995, he initiated focus groups on Sexuality and Spirituality in 1998 and 1999 and has written major articles for the GBF Newsletter (10/1999 and 6/2005). Paul is a graduate of the Buddhist Alliance for Social Engagement (BASE) training, a program of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. He is a licensed addiction counselor with a sex addiction counseling practice in Oakland, where he shares a living space with his dog Bodhi(sattva). Paul received his PhD from UC Berkeley. He taught, directed and produced film and stage productions for the university and in community theaters. He died in 2022. ______________
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| 03 Jan 1999 | Emptiness Part 2 - Jim Wilson | 00:48:09 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 17 Jan 1999 | Relationship With One's Teacher - Tony Richardson | 00:51:18 | |
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| 07 Mar 1999 | Ignorance - Jim Wilson | 00:56:04 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 14 Mar 1999 | Sexuality - Darlene Cohen | 00:57:20 | |
Darlene Cohen began sitting at the SF Zen Center in 1970 and was lay-ordained in 1974. She curretnly leads two regular meditation groups and is a practice leader at SFZC. Her book, "Arthritis: Everyday Exercises for Body and Mind" offers instruction in using the tasks of everyday life for healing chronic illness. ______________
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| 28 Mar 1999 | Impermanence: a Korean Zen Perspective - Hyunoong Sunim | 00:57:54 | |
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| 18 Apr 1999 | Relationship of Vipassana to the Awakening of Wisdom Compassion - Eugene Cash | 00:54:46 | |
Eugene Cash is the founding teacher of the San Francisco Insight Meditation Community of San Francisco. He teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and leads intensive meditation retreats internationally. His teaching is influenced by both Burmese and Thai streams of the Theravada tradition as well as Zen and Tibetan Buddhist practice. He is also a teacher of the Diamond Approach, a school of spiritual investigation and self-realization developed by A. H. Almaas. ______________
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| 23 May 1999 | Attachment and Letting Go - Mark Coleman | 00:49:45 | |
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| 13 Jun 1999 | The Four Immeasurables - Jim Wilson | 00:58:02 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 20 Jun 1999 | The Work of Ken Wilbur - Burt Parlee | 00:54:55 | |
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| 04 Jul 1999 | Interdependence Day - Jim Wilson | 00:55:52 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 07 Jul 1999 | Compassion - Jim Wilson | 00:46:45 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 11 Jul 1999 | The Buddha: Human or Not? - Roger Corless | 00:53:50 | |
For over 20 years, Roger Corless was a professor of Buddhism and Christianity at Duke University. After settling in the Bay Area in the late 1990s, he became a frequent contributor to GBF. He was also the author of several books, including "Vision of Buddhism: The Space Under the Tree." He died in January 2007. ______________
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| 18 Jul 1999 | Somatics - Tony Richardson | 00:47:50 | |
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| 01 Aug 1999 | Cultivating Immeasurable Compassion - Jim Wilson | 00:50:31 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 08 Aug 1999 | There Are No Obstacles, There Are No Distractions - Diana Winston | 00:51:16 | |
Diana Winston is the founder of the Buddhist Alliance for Social Engagement (BASE) Program, America's first Buddhist voluntary service organization. She has recently returned from Asia where she spent one year in intensive retreat practice. ______________
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| 29 Aug 1999 | No One Knows How to Love Me Like A Man - Myo Leahy | 00:54:54 | |
Myo Leahy is a priest in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi. He began his sitting practice in 1969 and chose to begin full-time training in 1982. He was ordained n 1986, received the Shuso (head Monk) initiation in 1989, and Shiho (dharma transmission) in March of 1999 from Tenshin Anderson-Roshi. ______________
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| 10 Sep 1999 | Dharma Core @Vajrapani 1 - Jim Wilson | 01:20:36 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 11 Sep 1999 | Two Truths @Vajrapani 2 - Jim Wilson | 01:06:23 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 12 Sep 1999 | The Four Immeasurables @Vajrapani 3 - Jim Wilson | 01:07:04 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 17 Oct 1999 | Shamanisim Buddhism - Howard King | 00:46:34 | |
Howard King has been studying on various spiritual paths for over 40 years. For the past 20 years, he has been studying the healing ways that come from shamanic cultures. His present study is within the Tibetan Buddhadharma traditions. ______________
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| 24 Oct 1999 | Impermanence - Michael Broderick | 00:57:43 | |
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| 31 Oct 1999 | Christian de la Huerta | 00:56:16 | |
Christian de la Huerta is the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed "Coming Out Spiritually." Chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the ten best religion books of 1999, the book was also nominated for a Lambda Award. Christian’s writing has appeared in The Advocate, Hero, Genre, and other publications. He is founder and president of Q-Spirit, a strategic organization catalyzing the necessary conditions for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people to fully reclaim our spiritual roles of service, leadership and community enrichment in the world. Graduating with honors from Tulane University, de la Huerta holds a degree in Psychology. He has been a seminar leader and group facilitator for the past twelve years. ______________
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| 07 Nov 1999 | Bodichitta Heart Wisdom (partial) - Jim Wilson | 00:57:44 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 14 Nov 1999 | Desire Passion - Carol Newhouse | 00:49:41 | |
Carol Osmer Newhouse has studied Insight Meditation for more than 30 years and has been teaching for 20. She was given Dharma transmission by The Venerable Ruth Denison, student of the great meditation master U Ba Khin of Burma. She has studied with Dr. Rina Sircar of CIIS and Dr Thynn Thynn in Daily Life Practice. She is the founding teacher of the Lesbian Buddhist Sangha in Berkeley, and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. ______________
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| 21 Nov 1999 | Right Speech - Kobai Scott Whitney | 00:51:58 | |
Kobai Scott Whitney was a friend of Issan Dorsey and part of the first group of Gay Buddhists who met in the late 1970s. That group later evolved into such entities as GBF and Issan-ji Zendo. Whitney has practiced with Aitken Roshi's group since the early 1980s. He lives at Koko An Zendo n Honolulu and works as a writer and magazine editor. ______________
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| 05 Dec 1999 | Community - Clint Seiter | 00:51:33 | |
Clint Seiter has been a GBF sangha member since 1990 and is a long-time participant in the Green Gulch Zen Buddhist community. During his involvement in these communities, he has been the lead muffin baker in Green Gulch for twenty-five years and the head of GBF’s monthly “feed the homeless” dinners at Larkin Street Youth Center for over twenty years. He wrote about engaged Buddhism in the Feb 2009 GBF Newsletter. Clint's spiritual path also includes the Diamond Heart program and the teachings of Ken Wilber. ______________
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| 12 Dec 1999 | Practicing Buddhism As A Gay Man - Jim Wilson | 00:54:04 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 05 Mar 2000 | If All is Buddha, Why Do We Sit? - First GBF Spring Retreat 2 - Jim Wilson | 01:20:05 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 05 Mar 2000 | Engaged Buddhism Xin Xin Ming - First GBF Spring Retreat 1 - Jim Wilson | 01:11:41 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 06 Mar 2000 | Suffering - First GBF Spring Retreat 3 - Jim Wilson | 00:16:44 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 06 Mar 2000 | Sangha - First GBF Spring Retreat 3 - Jim Wilson | 01:19:00 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 12 Mar 2000 | Paradox - Darlene Cohen | 00:43:02 | |
Darlene Cohen began sitting at the SF Zen Center in 1970 and was lay-ordained in 1974. She curretnly leads two regular meditation groups and is a practice leader at SFZC. Her book, "Arthritis: Everyday Exercises for Body and Mind" offers instruction in using the tasks of everyday life for healing chronic illness. ______________
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| 16 Apr 2000 | Tonglen Practice - Michael McManus | 00:49:30 | |
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| 30 Apr 2000 | The Bad Buddhist and the Good Gay Heart - Mark Marion | 00:48:58 | |
Does the union of masculine and feminine in gay people seem to bestow on us an aptitude and affinity for the central teachings explained in Buddhism: non-separateness, equanimity, impermanence and non-duality? In this deeply insightful talk, Mark Marion helps us explore how feeling like outsiders can thrust us face-to-face with a particular kind of loneliness that causes us to examine our relationship to the world and the assumptions that those around us take for granted. Mark explores how the gay experience in the world brings with it a capacity to embody and express the truth that transcends duality. He reads excerpts from his chapter in "Queer Dharma II," the second ground-breaking anthology of essays by queer Buddhists edited by Winston Leyland. #FlashbackFriday ______________ ______________
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| 02 May 2000 | Emptiness - Jim Wilson | 00:51:20 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 14 May 2000 | Self Inquiry - Dennis Horan | 00:53:12 | |
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| 21 May 2000 | How My Teacher Taught Me Tibetan Buddhism - Tony Richardson | 00:55:06 | |
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| 29 Jul 2000 | Karma - Robina Courtin | 00:56:45 | |
Ven. Robina Courtin was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery in 1978. She has worked full-time since then for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition. She is now director of Liberation Prison Project, which supports the Buddhist practice of thousands of prisoners in the USA and Australia. ______________
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| 17 Dec 2000 | Dependent Origination - Jim Wilson | 00:52:11 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 07 Jan 2001 | Cathleen Williams | 00:51:26 | |
Cathleen Williams has been in and about the San Francisco Zen Center for 25 years or so, practicing both as a lay student and as a priest. Over the years she has found that the beginning questions of practice evolve into more refined questions that engage her whole life and that involve both her priest and her psychotherapy practice.Though she is now living away from City Center, her on-going connection with the Sangha there always refreshes and nurtures the wake-up matter. ______________
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| 14 Jan 2001 | Jeffrey Schneider | 00:44:40 | |
Jeffrey Schneider is a priest at the San Francisco Zen Center, where he has lived, worked and practiced since 1978. He is currently the coordinator of Zen Center’s outreach programs and founded, in 2000, the Buddhist recovery programs there. Jeffrey has offered retreats and teachings in a variety of Northern California venues as well as in Texas, Missouri, South Carolina and Virginia. ______________
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| 30 Sep 2001 | Truth - Bill Weber | 00:43:58 | |
Bill Weber is a senior Vipassana practitioner and a graduate from Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders program. He has twenty-five years of extensive retreat practice and currently practices at home with his husband or sits with a small group of gay men. He is also a documentary filmmaker and video editor, whose latest projects are “To Be Takei” and “The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin.” ______________
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| 14 Oct 2001 | Identity - Eugene Cash | 00:46:29 | |
Eugene Cash is the founding teacher of the San Francisco Insight Meditation Community of San Francisco. He teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and leads intensive meditation retreats internationally. His teaching is influenced by both Burmese and Thai streams of the Theravada tradition as well as Zen and Tibetan Buddhist practice. He is also a teacher of the Diamond Approach, a school of spiritual investigation and self-realization developed by A. H. Almaas. ______________
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| 02 Dec 2001 | Right Intention - Jim Wilson | 00:51:05 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 13 Jan 2002 | Self Care - Scott Hunt | 00:50:58 | |
Scott Hunt has written extensively on issues of social justice and human rights. His latest book, "The Future of Peace," was declared one of the best spiritual books of 2002 by Spirituality and Health Magazine. After 22 years of study, Scott was instructed to teach Tantric Buddhism in the Nyingma Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism by His Holiness Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche. For more about Scott’s work, see www.people ofpeace.net and scottahunt.com. ______________
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| 24 Feb 2002 | Nichiren tradition - Diana Elrod | 00:48:04 | |
Diana Elrod is an active member of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) in the Nichiren tradition. She has a Masters in Philosophy and Religion with an emphasis on Chinese Buddhism, from the California College of Integral Studies. ______________
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| 24 Mar 2002 | Judgment - Donald Rothberg | 00:46:27 | |
Donald Rothberg, Ph.D., a member of the Teachers Council at Spirit Rock Center, and a teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center, teaches retreats and groups on concentration and insight meditation practice, lovingkindness practice, transforming the judgmental mind, mindful communication, working skillfully with conflict, and socially engaged Buddhism. He has practiced insight meditation since 1976, and has also received training in Tibetan Dzogchen, body-based psychotherapy, and trauma work. He has helped guide many six-month to two-year training programs in socially engaged spirituality, both Buddhist-based and interfaith, and is the author of The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World, and the co-editor of Ken Wilber in Dialogue. ______________
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| 31 Mar 2002 | Faith - Scott Hunt | 00:48:28 | |
Scott Hunt has written extensively on issues of social justice and human rights. His latest book, "The Future of Peace," was declared one of the best spiritual books of 2002 by Spirituality and Health Magazine. After 22 years of study, Scott was instructed to teach Tantric Buddhism in the Nyingma Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism by His Holiness Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche. For more about Scott’s work, see www.people ofpeace.net and scottahunt.com. ______________
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| 31 Mar 2002 | Paradox - Eugene Cash | 00:46:41 | |
Eugene Cash is the founding teacher of the San Francisco Insight Meditation Community of San Francisco. He teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and leads intensive meditation retreats internationally. His teaching is influenced by both Burmese and Thai streams of the Theravada tradition as well as Zen and Tibetan Buddhist practice. He is also a teacher of the Diamond Approach, a school of spiritual investigation and self-realization developed by A. H. Almaas. ______________
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| 14 Apr 2002 | Bhutan - Sean Hargens | 00:50:16 | |
Sean is a Ph.D. candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he is focusing his research on environmental philosophy, intersubjectivity, and Himalayan Buddhist traditions. He just recently spent five months in Bhutan, one of the last Buddhist nations, doing research on the intersection of environmental science, culture, and spirituality. ______________
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| 21 Apr 2002 | India - Jayamati | 00:48:05 | |
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| 05 May 2002 | Five Precepts - Jim Wilson | 00:53:25 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 19 May 2002 | Vipassana - Carol Newhouse | 00:55:33 | |
Carol Osmer Newhouse has studied Insight Meditation for more than 30 years and has been teaching for 20. She was given Dharma transmission by The Venerable Ruth Denison, student of the great meditation master U Ba Khin of Burma. She has studied with Dr. Rina Sircar of CIIS and Dr Thynn Thynn in Daily Life Practice. She is the founding teacher of the Lesbian Buddhist Sangha in Berkeley, and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. ______________
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| 02 Jun 2002 | Dependent Origination - Jim Wilson | 00:50:42 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 09 Jun 2002 | Buddhism and Sex - Roger Corless | 00:51:48 | |
For over 20 years, Roger Corless was a professor of Buddhism and Christianity at Duke University. After settling in the Bay Area in the late 1990s, he became a frequent contributor to GBF. He was also the author of several books, including "Vision of Buddhism: The Space Under the Tree." He died in January 2007. ______________
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| 16 Jun 2002 | Life Death: a Personal View - Steve Peskind | 00:57:52 | |
Steve Peskind, co-founder of the Coming Home Hospice, the San Francisco Shanti Project, and the Buddhist AIDS Project, has practiced meditation since 1973. ______________
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| 21 Jul 2002 | Depression - Sozan Schellin | 00:52:36 | |
Sozan Schellin began Zen study in LA in 1979 with Maezumi-roshi, with whom he had lay ordination in 1982; he studied at two monasteries in Japan. He was ordained in the Soto Zen Lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi by Philip Whalen at Hartford Street Zen Center, San Francisco, in 1999. His teacher is Barbara Kohn-sensei, of Austin,TX, with whom he has been head of practice for the summer practice period, 2002. ______________
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| 18 Aug 2002 | Bhutan slides - Sean Hargens | 00:57:42 | |
Sean is a Ph.D. candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he is focusing his research on environmental philosophy, intersubjectivity, and Himalayan Buddhist traditions. He just recently spent five months in Bhutan, one of the last Buddhist nations, doing research on the intersection of environmental science, culture, and spirituality. ______________
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| 25 Aug 2002 | Self-Power Practice - Roger Corless | 00:51:20 | |
For over 20 years, Roger Corless was a professor of Buddhism and Christianity at Duke University. After settling in the Bay Area in the late 1990s, he became a frequent contributor to GBF. He was also the author of several books, including "Vision of Buddhism: The Space Under the Tree." He died in January 2007. ______________
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| 15 Sep 2002 | Metta Joy - Carol Newhouse | 00:46:07 | |
Carol Osmer Newhouse has studied Insight Meditation for more than 30 years and has been teaching for 20. She was given Dharma transmission by The Venerable Ruth Denison, student of the great meditation master U Ba Khin of Burma. She has studied with Dr. Rina Sircar of CIIS and Dr Thynn Thynn in Daily Life Practice. She is the founding teacher of the Lesbian Buddhist Sangha in Berkeley, and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. ______________
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| 22 Sep 2002 | Taking Refuge Ceremony | 00:57:13 | |
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| 29 Sep 2002 | Freedom and Liberation - Bill Weber | 00:50:16 | |
Bill Weber is a senior Vipassana practitioner and a graduate from Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders program. He has twenty-five years of extensive retreat practice and currently practices at home with his husband or sits with a small group of gay men. He is also a documentary filmmaker and video editor, whose latest projects are “To Be Takei” and “The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin.” ______________
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| 06 Oct 2002 | Wes Nisker | 00:58:27 | |
Wes Nisker, the co-founder and editor of the international Buddhist journal Inquiring Minds, has practiced Vipassana meditation for 30 years. He is the author of "Buddha's Nature: Evolution as a Guide to Enlightenment," "Crazy Wisdom: A Romp Through the Philosophies of East and West," and "The Buddha, the Big Bang, and the Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of My Generation." In addition to leading a regular sitting group in Berkeley, he teaches classes in meditation and philosophy at Spirit Rock and at other locations around the country. ______________
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| 20 Oct 2002 | Home Altars - Jim Wilson | 00:49:33 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 27 Oct 2002 | Burma and Bhutan - Justin Hecht | 00:51:31 | |
As a Buddhist practitioner and a certified Jungian analyst, Justin has explored both the dharma and Jung’s work and has both professional and personal experience of the interactions of these two powerful belief systems. He will present several useful concepts, illustrated by stories and examples, and be available for discussion at the conclusion of his presentation. ______________
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| 03 Nov 2002 | The Three Jewels Part 1 - Jim Wilson | 00:50:58 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 17 Nov 2002 | Ken Wilbur - Sean Hargens | 00:57:34 | |
Sean is a Ph.D. candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he is focusing his research on environmental philosophy, intersubjectivity, and Himalayan Buddhist traditions. He just recently spent five months in Bhutan, one of the last Buddhist nations, doing research on the intersection of environmental science, culture, and spirituality. ______________
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| 24 Nov 2002 | Nichiren tradition - Diana Elrod | 00:53:41 | |
Diana Elrod is an active member of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) in the Nichiren tradition. She has a Masters in Philosophy and Religion with an emphasis on Chinese Buddhism, from the California College of Integral Studies. ______________
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| 01 Dec 2002 | The Three Jewels Part 2 - Jim Wilson | 00:50:54 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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| 05 Jan 2003 | The Deathless - Jim Wilson | 00:58:17 | |
Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane. He is also Manager and Co-Founder of Many Rivers Books and Tea, a spiritual bookstore in Sebastapol. ______________
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