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.
Tantrum of the Tathagata (Story Time)
Embracing the Suck (Space Flowers) w/ Jason Dodge
Dukkha Happens (Patience) w/ Dave Cuomo
Free and Unavoidable Things w/ Gyokei Yokoyama (Great Compassionate Mind)
Surprised and Delighted (Self Compassion & the 5 Skandas) w/ Sara Campbell
A Carnage of Compassion pt 1 (Compassion Monsters & the 5 Skandas) w/ Dave Cuomo
Aimless Affirmations (Empowerment vs Emptiness) w/ Sara Campbell
Where’d the Glow Go? (Morality) w/ Dave Cuomo
Fierce Compassion (The Magic Hour) w/ Gyokei Yokoyama
The Great G(r)ift (Generosity) w/ Dave Cuomo
Clarity, Purpose, and Joy w/ Curtis Fabens
Burn it Down (Alignment & Blockages) w/ Gyokei Yokoyama
Ruinous Revelations (Dongshan’s “It’s Only This”) w/ Dave Cuomo
Baseline (Finding Balance) w/ Jitsujo Gauthier
Nobody’s Fool (The Five Skandhas) w/ Dave Cuomo
Consistent Inconsistency (What Am I Doing Here??) w/ Ish Lipman
Baby Come Back (The Three Returns) w/ Dave Cuomo
On the Road with Herman the Worm Boy w/ Sara Campbell
A Terrifying Teaching (Diamond Sutra ch 14) w/ Jason Dodge
Tell Me What You Want (Desire & The 4 Noble Truths) w/ Dave Cuomo
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