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!
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??)
Gyokei Yokoyama - Moment of Truth (Retreat Talk pt 2)
Gyokei Yokoyama - Let’s Be Friends (Retreat Talk 1)
Dave Cuomo - Ballad of a Blue House (Shitou’s Straw Hut Song)
John Nilsson - Continuing Bewilderments (What Am I Doing Here??)
Dave Cuomo - Why Bother? (Why Not?! (Vimalakirti ch 5))
Gyokei Yokoyama - Pressure Pot
Emily Eslami - Good Grief
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