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 - The Great Mistake (Ignorance - part deux!)
Dave Cuomo - Ignorance is Bliss (pt 1 - The 12 Fold Chain)
Emily Eslami - Love Potion ((#)9th Precept - No Giving Way to Anger)
Dave Cuomo - Fringe Benefit
Emily Eslami - My Missing Piece (8th Precept - No Coveting)
Dave Cuomo - A Functional Fantasy Land
Dave Cuomo - Karma Happens
Emily Eslami - The Fundamental Human Disaster (7th precept - No Praising Self or Berating Others)
Dave Cuomo - An Unknowable Hope (Inmo)
Emily Eslami - Stuck in the Mud With You (6th Precept - No Speaking of Past Mistakes)
Dave Cuomo - Bursting Buckets of Buddha!
Emily Eslami - Cloudy Days in the Great Brightness (5th Precept - No Intoxicants)
Dave Cuomo - A Celebration of Silliness (History of Zen - Tozan & Rinzai!)
Dave Cuomo - Sacred Unhinged
Emily Eslami - About the Lies I Haven't Told You (The Precepts pt 5 - No Lying)
Erik Andersen - Angel of Doubt
Emily Eslami - Black Vipers & Cold Rocks (Precepts pt 4 - Sex & Desire)
Dave Cuomo - Zen's Golden Dark Age (History of Zen)
Wilcox Gwynne - No Trigger Warning Needed (What Was I Doing There??)
Emily Eslami - Nothing to Lose (The Precept pt 3 - No Stealing)
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