Angel City Zen Center - Beginners Only Podcast
Religion & Spirituality:Buddhism
“If you train yourself to always be confident, competent, and charismatic, you're going to walk into a room and either alienate or inspire everybody, and connect with nobody.
If you’re able to walk into a room with a tickle of anxiety and self doubt, next to some hope and aspiration, all cradled in the big old thromb of emptiness that animates everything, then you can actually connect with people. Maybe.” - Dave Cuomo
Dave regales us with the wild and wacky wizardly hijinks of Chapter 6 of the Vimalakirti Sutra. This week the assembly needs to find itself some chairs, so Vimalakrit busts out his portal gun to go looking for the Greatest Chairs in the Universe, which turn out to be 84,000 feet tall! Can the lesser monks among us measure up to the seats of the great bodhisattvas (metaphor alert…)? And how are we to understand the bodhisattva’s great magic known as “Beyond Comprehension” (irony alert…)? And if, as the sutra says, every jerk in the universe is actually just a bodhisattva in disguise trying to test and train us, what is the actual answer to the test?? Find out here!
Dave Cuomo - Good Friends (History of Zen - The Platform Sutra)
Michele Roldan-Shaw - Street Buddhism (Jataka Tales)
Erik Andersen - Worry Time
Dave Cuomo - Catastrophe! (History of Zen - Shenhui & The An Lushan Rebellion
Dave Cuomo - Siren Songs and Bluejays
Emma Roy - Buddha's Anger
Dave Cuomo - Explaining the Joke (History of Zen - Shenxiu)
Dave Cuomo - The Great Cosmic Joke (Nishijima’s Four Views)
Emily Eslami - Stupid Joy
Jack Taylor - What Am I Doing Here??
Emily Eslami - No Death
Dave Cuomo - Zen Begins! (History of Zen - Bodhidharma)
Miranda Javid - Faking It
Emma Roy - Zen and the Art of Marketing Zen
Emily Eslami - Well, This is Uncomfortable (Death by Fire, Death By Ice)
Dave Cuomo - Something from Nothing (History of Zen - The situation in Ancient China)
Dave Cuomo - A Brief History of Not Knowing
Emma Roy - A Time Outside of Time
Emily Eslami - The Great Mistake
Dave Cuomo - Give Up, Give In
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