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RM Meian Elbert Dharma Talks by Reverend Master Meian Elbert, Abbess
Reverend Master Meian Elbert is a Senior Disciple of Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett. She was ordained a monk in 1977 and was transmitted by Rev. Master Jiyu in 1979. Before becoming Abbess in June, 2010, she served as Chief Cook, Novice Master, Chief Precentor, Prior and Vice Abbess. She was chaplain to Rev. Master Jiyu for more than 15 years. A selection of her talks is available below. For access to additional talks, please use the Archive page.
Format Topic/Title Select Date Length File Size
audio Veneration
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 04-21-13 31 min 11 MB
audio Wise Discernment
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 04-07-13 22 min 7 MB
audio Lay And Monastic Practice
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 03-10-13 30 min 10 MB
audio The All-Embracing Nature of Compassion
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 02-24-13 24 min 8 MB
audio Relinquishment
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 02-10-13 33 min 12 MB
audio The Appearance of Maitreya
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 01-01-13 20 min 7 MB
audio The Ceremony of Offering and Gratitude
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 12-30-12 26 min 9 MB
audio Buddhist Martyrs
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 11-25-12 23 min 8 MB
audio Koho Zenji and Love
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 10-28-12 32 min 11 MB
audio Sitting Still With Feelings
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 10-21-12 32 min 11 MB
audio Buddhism With A Big B
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 09-30-12 28 min 10 MB
audio The Stream of Compassion
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 09-16-12 27 min 9 MB
audio Training Without Expectations
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 09-02-12 25 min 8 MB
audio Asking For Help
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 08-12-12 34 min 11 MB
audio Taking Responsibility For Our Training
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 07-29-12 32 min 11 MB
audio Serene Reflection Meditation
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 07-26-12 29 min 10 MB
audio Suffering and Acceptance
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 07-15-12 42 min 14 MB
audio The Space Between The Dust Motes
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 07-01-12 20 min 7 MB
audio The Teachings of Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett:
Learning From Reverend Master
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 06-18-12 37 min 12 MB
audio The Teachings of Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett:
Introductory Talk

Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 06-17-12 25 min 8 MB
audio Wesak: Openness of Heart
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 05-20-12 25 min 8 MB
audio Conditions Are Not Separate From The Way
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 05-06-12 30 min 10 MB
audio Practicing No Separate Self
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 04-15-12 35 min 12 MB
audio Commitment
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 03-25-12 21 min 7 MB
audio Jealousy and Envy
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 03-11-12 32 min 11 MB
audio Samantabhadra's Practices of Activity and Stillness
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 02-26-12 28 min 9 MB
audio Within All Darkness There Is Light
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 02-12-12 30 min 10 MB
audio Strength
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 01-01-12 28 min 9 MB
audio General Siha
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 11-13-11 38 min 13 MB
audio Rev. Master Jiyu's Life of Faith
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 11-06-11 33 min 11 MB
audio Repentance and Forgiveness
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 10-23-11 30 min 10 MB
audio On Bodhidharma Day: After the Conclave, Again
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 10-09-11 25 min 8 MB
audio Stepping Off Into Life
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 09-04-11 30 min 10 MB
audio Making Our Offering
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 08-14-11 29 min 10 MB
audio Who is Kshtigarbha?
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 08-07-11 31 min 11 MB
audio The Eight Winds
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 07-24-11 35 min 12 MB
audio Habits of Mind
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 07-10-11 27 min 9 MB

Series: Cultivating the Empty Field
Rev. Master Meian Elbert

Link to
List of Talks
06-19 to
06-25-11
7 Talks Available
audio Bowing
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 06-12-11 33 min 11 MB
audio Wesak: The Buddha as a Human Being
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 05-15-11 34 min 12 MB
audio Do Not Cultivate Discriminative Thought
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 05-08-11 21 min 7 MB
audio Accepting Impermanence
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 04-17-11 26 min 9 MB
audio Working With Stress
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 03-27-11 29 min 10 MB
audio Finding Compassion
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 02-20-11 16 min 6 MB
audio The Buddha's Renunciation
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 02-06-11 30 min 10 MB
audio Practicing Loving-Kindness
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 01-01-11 26 min 9 MB
audio Light and Darkness
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 12-26-10 21 min 7 MB
audio The Avatamsaka Scripture: The Larger View
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 12-12-10 23 min 8 MB
audio The Conduct That Eases The Way
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 11-21-10 29 min 10 MB
audio All Are Welcome
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 11-07-10 16 min 6 MB
audio Confidence
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 10-31-10 17 min 6 MB
audio Bhaisajya-guru's Healing Medicine
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 10-17-10 26 min 9 MB
audio After the Conclave on Bodhidharma Day
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 10-03-10 22 min 8 MB
audio New Beginnings
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 09-12-10 12 min 4 MB
audio The Perfection of Zen
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 08-08-10 22 min 7 MB
audio Creating Merit
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 07-25-10 30 min 10 MB
audio The Practice of Gratitude
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 07-04-10 22 min 7 MB
audio Trust
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 06-20-10 29 min 13 MB
audio Applying the Dharma
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 06-06-10 30 min 10 MB
audio On What May We Rely?
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 05-23-10 21 min 14 MB
audio Wesak 2010: Washing the Body of the Buddha
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 05-16-10 17 min 12 MB
audio

If...
Rev. Master Meian Elbert

Listen/Download 05-02-10 24 min 8 MB
Series: The Ten Abodes (Series in progress)
             Rev. Master Meian Elbert    
Link to
List of Talks
2009 3 Talks Available
Series: A Bodhisattva Asks for Clarification
             Rev. Master Meian Elbert    
Link to
List of Talks
2009 10 Talks Available
audio On Manjusri
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 04-05-09 38 min 13 MB
audio Patience: The Greatest Ascetic Practice
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 11-16-08 32 min 11 MB
audio Fear and the Gift of Fearlessness
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 10-26-08 34 min 11 MB
audio Renunciation and the Mind
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 08-17-08 24 min 8 MB
audio Taking Responsibility for our Suffering
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 08-10-08 41 min 14 MB
audio Training With Other People
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 08-03-08 33 min 11 MB
Series: The Ten Practices
             Rev. Master Meian Elbert    
Link to
List of Talks
07-07
t0 07-08
11 Talks Available
audio A Life of Faith.
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 07-20-08 37 min 12 MB
audio

The Merit of Training
Rev. Master Meian Elbert

Listen/Download 05-25-08 36 min 12 MB
Series: The Song That Attests to the Way
             Rev. Master Meian Elbert    
Link to
List of Talks
08-07 7 Talks Available
audio

Achalanatha
Rev. Master Meian Elbert

Listen/Download 07-15-07 37 min 13 MB
audio

Reflections on Ceremonial
Rev. Master Meian Elbert

Listen/Download 05-06-07 43 min 14 MB
audio

Reflections on Great Master Keizan
Rev. Master Meian Elbert

Listen/Download 04-29-07 33 min 12 MB
Series: The Ten Commitments
             Rev. Master Meian Elbert    
Link to
List of Talks
07-06
to 06-07
10 Talks Available
Series: The Ten Decisions
             Rev. Master Meian Elbert    
Link to
List of Talks
07-05
to 07-06
7 Talks Available
audio

Faith
Rev. Master Meian Elbert

Listen/Download 05-22-05 42 min 14 MB
audio

On Samantabhadra
Rev. Master Meian Elbert

Listen/Download 02-27-05 40 min 14 MB
Series: The Ten Nourishing Attitudes
             Rev. Master Meian Elbert    
Link to
List of Talks
08-04
to 06-05
9 Talks Available
audio Bodhidharma Day 2004
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 10-04 36 min 12 MB
Series: Gakudo-yojinshu
             Rev. Master Meian Elbert                        
Link to
List of Talks
08-04 6 Talks Available
audio

On Nagyaarajuna
Rev. Master Meian Elbert

Listen/Download 07-18-04 35 min 12 MB
audio

On Achalanatha
Rev. Master Meian Elbert

Listen/Download 07-11-04 32 min 11 MB
audio The Correct Use of Will in Training
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen Download 05-02-04 33 min 12 MB
audio

Responsibility
Rev. Master Meian Elbert

Listen/Download 11-16-03 44 min 15 MB
audio

Reflections on Death
Rev. Master Meian Elbert

Listen/Download 11-09-03 38 min 13 MB
audio Ceremonial Revisited
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 10-03 35 min 12 MB
audio Ceremonial and Daily Life
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 08-31-03 34 min 12 MB
audio Trusting Our Spiritual Worth
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 08-10-03 27 min 9 MB
audio Kshtigarbha Bodhisattva
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 08-03-03 35 min 12 MB
audio Nagyaarajuna: Willingness to Change
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 07-27-03 30 min 10 MB
audio Look What Your Mind Is Doing
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 07-20-03 35 min 12 MB
audio Keizan: Life and Training of the Mother of Soto Zen
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 05-04-03 28 min 9 MB
audio Harmony in the Sangha (poor audio quality)
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 02-15-03 52 min 18 MB
audio War
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 11-09-02 36 min 12 MB
audio Remembering the Important Thing
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 08-04-02 33 min 11 MB
audio The Importance of Sitting Still
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 07-14-02 40 min 14 MB
audio Keeping One's Training Going
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 07-07-02 25 min 8 MB
audio Forget the Selfish Self
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 10-25-01 32 min 11 MB
audio The Practice of Anatta
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 08-19-01 34 min 12 MB
audio Nagyaarajuna's Loving Heart
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 07-22-01 29 min 10 MB
audio Looking in the Right Direction
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 05-20-01 33 min 11 MB
audio The Practice of Ceremonial
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 03-21-01 35 min 12 MB
audio Faith and Worry
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 07-19-00 45 min 15 MB
audio The Arising of the Koan
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 2000 36 min 12 MB
audio The Transfer of Merit and Willingness
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 2000 38 min 13 MB
audio The Practice of Gratitude
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 1999 14 min 5 MB
audio Training Under Pressure
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 1997 51 min 17 MB
audio Reflections on the Wild White Goose
Rev. Master Meian Elbert
Listen/Download 1997 40 min 14 MB
audio

How to Listen to a Dharma Talk
Rev. Master Meian Elbert

Listen/Download no date 38 min 13 MB
       
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