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!
Sara Campbell - World‘s Created, World‘s Destroyed
Dave Cuomo - Space
Gyokei Yokoyama - The Simplest Thing
Dave Cuomo - Grump & Gruff (Bodhidharma‘s Outline of Practice)
Leslie Mundy - Near Happenstance (What Am I Doing Here??)
Dave Cuomo - Dave Cuomo - Leggo My Ego (Yogacara - Manas (Self Consciousness))
Sara Campbell - A Different Way of Being Hopeless (Genjo Koan)
Emily Eslami - Holy S**t
Dave Cuomo - Trust Fall (The Singing of Dragons)
Dave Cuomo - DIY(T) (Teachers in Zen)
Corey Warner - The Sweet Spot (What Am I Doing Here??)
Dave Cuomo - Pure Non Sense (Yogacara - The Six Senses)
Colin Young - Words are Hard! (What Am I Doing Here??)
Emily Eslami - One Rule to Rule Them All (The Three Pure Precepts)
Dave Cuomo - Empty Innocent Space (Yogacara - The Storehouse Consciousness)
Dave Cuomo - The Good Life (Renunciation)
Dave Cuomo - Buddha's Baggage (Yogacara pt 1)
Emily Eslami - Triple Treasure, Triple Treat! (The Three Refuges)
Dave Cuomo - What Do You Want? (Love & Self Care)
Emily Eslami - The Cheat Sheet of (un)Reality (10th Precept - No Disparaging the Buddha, Dharma, & Sangha)
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