Angel City Zen Center - Beginners Only Podcast
Religion & Spirituality:Buddhism
“If you watch a movie where somebody's having a bad day, you laugh along and empathize and think ‘Well that's a good movie about a guy having a bad day.’ And that's what zazen is, just watching a guy maybe having a bad day. And then I empathize with that guy. And you know what? I usually have a better day after that.” - Dave Cuomo
Dave delves into Keizan’s Three Levels of Zazen and tries to figure out whether the “witness mind” is an accurate description of the mind of zazen, and if not, what is? What’s the difference between ordinary and superior meditation? Do we have a choice in which one we sit and would it matter if we did? And how are we supposed to entertain ourselves in zazen when the things we’ve been wrestling with up and fly away one day? Find out here
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
Every Day is a Good Day w/ Shumyo Kojima
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