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!
Mutual Conspiracy (Sonic Meditations) w/ Robert Holliday
Your Kindness & Your Hatefulness (See y’all soon) w/ Dave Cuomo
Rote Reverence (Rituals) w/ Gyokei Yokoyama
The Why Question w/ Jitsujo Gauthier
A Clever Game (What Am I Doing Here??) w/ Pedro Peres
F#@k Around and Find Out (Prajna (Wisdom)) w/ Dave Cuomo
The Messy Middle (The Curse of Self Awareness) w/ Heather Ross
Dharmically Unqualified (Dharma Combat) w/ Gyokei Yokoyama
Liberty’s Laments (Year of the Wood Dragon) w/ Dave Cuomo
A Subtle Sober Magic (Zazen) w/ Gyokei Yokoyama
A Seat at the Table (Meditation) w/ Dave Cuomo
The Problem With Happiness (What Am I Doing Here??) w/ Patrick Carroll
Effortless Efforts (Energy & Depression) w/ Dave Cuomo
Sorrowful Splendor w/ Sara Campbell
A Long Loving Look Into the Darkness w/ Dave Cuomo
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
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