Angel City Zen Center - Beginners Only Podcast
Religion & Spirituality:Buddhism
"In classical Buddhism, the fundamental mistake is that getting what you think you want will make you happy. In Zen they seem to say the fundamental delusion is that you exist at all.
This is why Zen is so weird. We're trying to look at what comes before awareness, and that's hard. It’s really hard to be aware of something that precedes awareness. But not impossible....” - Dave Cuomo
Dave takes us for a freewheeling ride on that big beautiful ferris wheel of life we call samsara, aka The 12 Fold Chain of Dependent Origination. It’s the great pie chart of all reality that Buddha warned us we can either wake up to, or be doomed to repeat over and over again. But do we really want it to end, or can we find a way to make the ride a little less bumpy? How does anything happen and do we actually have any control over it? Is reality just a mistake and would knowing that make any difference?? Does the ACZC sangha want to get down on some seriously nerdy Buddhist theory??? Find out (and let us know) here…
Gyokei Yokoyama - “Leave No Trace”
Heather Ross - Something Special (What Am I Doing Here??)
Dave Cuomo - Bursting the Bubble
Gyokei Yokoyama - Call and Response
Dave Cuomo - House Style
Erik Andersen - Take it Easy
Dave Cuomo - Thunderous Silence (Vimalakirti Ch 9 - Non Duality)
Emily Eslami - The Worst Horse
Dave Cuomo - Space Dust (Host and Guest)
Erik Andersen - “An Unfortunate Sequence of Events” (Sacred or Mundane?)
Dave Cuomo - Heavenly Hells! (Vimalakirti Sutra ch 8)
Sara Campbell - Instruction Manual for Living (The Wayward Mind)
Emily Eslami - Mind Waves, Mind Weeds
Dave Cuomo - A Quiet Resistance (Political Engagement in Buddhism)
Dave Cuomo - Flowers Abound! (Vimalakirti ch7 - The Goddess)
Erik Andersen - City of Illusion
Gyokei Yokoyama - The Great Experiment
Dave Cuomo - A Confident Confusion
Mota Mynttinen - Bottoms Up! (What Am I Doing Here??)
Dave Cuomo - Beyond Comprehension (Vimalakirti Sutra ch 6)
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