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!
Wilcox Gwynne - No Trigger Warning Needed (What Was I Doing There??)
Emily Eslami - Nothing to Lose (The Precept pt 3 - No Stealing)
Dave Cuomo - The Beautiful Boring of Blockhead (History of Zen - Shitou vs Mazu!)
Emily Eslami - First Gift (The Precepts pt 2 - Not Killing)
Dave Cuomo - Inconceivable! (The Vimalakirti Sutra - pt 2)
Dave Cuomo - Thank You For Being (The Vimalakirti Sutra - pt 1)
Erik Andersen - The Poor Way
Emily Eslami - On Shaky Ground (The Precepts pt 1 - Historical Background)
Emily Eslami - Old Bones, Dull Brains (Ceaseless Practice pt 2!)
Dave Cuomo - Stillness Screaming
Sara Campbell - The Fuzzy That Is Neither Warm Nor Cold (What Am Doing Here??)
Dave Cuomo - Is This Working??
Cat Kilmer - What Am I Doing Here?? (Love & Reality)
Emily Eslami - Ceaseless Practice
Dave Cuomo - Having Once Paused (History of Zen - Ikkyu)
Emily Eslami - Equanimity
Erik Andersen - Emptiness and Compassion (We're All In This Together)
Jason Dodge - What Am I Doing Here?
Dave Cuomo - Blinding Darkness
Love & Emptiness w/ Emily Eslami
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