Angel City Zen Center - Beginners Only Podcast
Religion & Spirituality:Buddhism
“It's brave of them to let people just step in and screw up. But it's not about how well you do, or whether you want to do it - we have a task and each person embodies it. If we’re getting anything here, it’s that authenticity.” - Gyokei Yokoyama
They say you don’t choose your family, and in Zen we don’t pick our sanghas. Gyokei discusses what it means to practice with a sangha, why it can be the trickiest and most rewarding of the big three jewels (Buddha, Dharma, & Sangha), and the kind of authentic bonding that only happens when we don’t get to choose who we sit next to in the zendo. In a culture of transactional communities, what are we getting out of this one? How can we tell the difference between being taken advantage of in a community, versus doing our part to a greater whole? And how do we run a successful operation when the operating plan is to let people screw it up? Find out here.
A Terrifying Teaching (Diamond Sutra ch 14) w/ Jason Dodge
Tell Me What You Want (Desire & The 4 Noble Truths) w/ Dave Cuomo
Every Day is a Good Day w/ Shumyo Kojima
Dawdling Destiny (How I Spent My Summer Vacation) w/ Henry Zander
Over the Wall (Monastic Training Report) w/ Dave Cuomo
Settled Questions w/ Sara Campbell
Kind Mind (Zen & Multitasking) w/ Helena Harvilicz
Instructions for the Working Stiff w/ Emily Eslami
Mountains Walk, Rivers Talk (Return to the Mountains & Rivers Sutra) w/ Dave Cuomo
Degenerate Dharma (The Diamond Sutra & Buddhist Cosmology) w/ Jason Dodge
Mind Blowing Mediocrity - (The Witness Mind) w/ Dave Cuomo
Forget Yourself (Non Duality) w/ Emily Eslami
Blooming Buddhas (Zen Gardening) w/ Helena Harvilicz
Summer of Space (Writer’s Block and the Faith In Mind Inscription) w/ Dave Cuomo
Comes and Goes (The Tathagata) w/ Jason Dodge
The Red Badge of Suffering (Single Minded Effort) w/ Emily Eslami
Off the Rails (Faith In Mind Inscription) w/ Dave Cuomo
Weltschmerz, Alcohol, & Sarcasm (What Am I Doing Here??) w/ Helena Harvilicz
Just Here to Make Friends (Meaning & Hierarchy) w/ Gyokei Yokoyama
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