The Zen of Everything

How did we get here? Jundo and Kirk discuss how they got involved in Buddhism and Zen. Treeleaf 108 What are the 108 Defilements (Bonno) Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Zen Flesh, Zen Bones Meditation in Action Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation John Cage: Indeterminacy If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Aren't buddhists supposed to maintain equanimity all the time, not have bad thoughts, not be jealous or angry? Treeleaf Vinaya rules about sex James Austin: Zen and the Brain If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Was the Buddha a proto-communist, or did he go with the flow and the status quo? Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance - Karl Marx: Capital If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Some zen practitioners get ordained, becoming unsui, or "clouds in water," which means they are trainee zen monks or priest. We discuss ordination and what it means. Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance Renpo Niwa Zenji If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Zen is the transmission outside of words. But there sure are a lot of books about Zen. We look at some of the best books on Zen. Soto Zen, that is. Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment Shunryu Suzuki: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings Philip Kapleau Roshi: The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment Shohaku Okumura: Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries Shohaku Okumura: The Mountains and Waters Sutra: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's "Sansuikyo" Steven Heine: Readings of Dōgen's "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye" Steven Heine: Dogen: Japan's Original Zen Teacher Taigen Dan Leighton: Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dōgen and the Lotus Sutra Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom: Three Fascicles from Shobogenzo with Commentary Kazuaki Tanahashi: Enlightenment Unfolds: the essential teachings of Dogen Kazuaki Tanahashi: Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen Will Johnson: The Posture of Meditation Barbara Hoetsu O'Brien: The Circle of the Way - A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World Jonathan Landaw & Stephan Bodian: Buddhism For Dummies Diana St. Ruth: Simple Guide to Zen Buddhism Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan, translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi Kazuaki Tanahashi: The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan Red Pine: The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain Norman Fischer & Susan Moon: What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind Stephen Batchelor: The Art of Solitude Brian Daizen Victoria: Zen at War Suggested BOOKS & MEDIA on Zen Practice (Treeleaf) If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We have too much stuff. We discuss the CohenJundo method of decluttering. Treeleaf - Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo attempts to explain the Heart Sutra in 25 minutes. Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance The Heart Sutra Avalokiteśvara (Kannon) Buddha Basics 02: Dukkha Sucks If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Big and small, two extremes, but, in zen, there's no difference. Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance Ushiku Daibutsu If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

For our 100th episode, we have a freewheeling chat about what we've learned from making this podcast. Like two guys chatting in a pub... The universe is a cosmic joke, and we are the punchline. Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance Kirk's podcasts Nishijima Roshi: The Dish Rack Teachings If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

The five hindrances are sensual desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, anxiousness and worry, and doubt. But if there's nothing to obtain in Zen, do they even matter? Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Do we know anything? Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Is there prayer in zen? Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients: a multicenter randomized trial of uncertainty and certainty of receiving intercessory prayer If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We think thoughts all the time. Why do we have these thoughts, and how do we deal with them? Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance Episode 95: Buddha Basics 13: Practice, Practice, Practice If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

What does it mean to practice zen? "Every tick of the clock holds all of time in the universe." Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance Nishijima Roshi: The Dish Rack Teachings Steve Howe: Clap If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

The Zen arts have very strict rules, which you can break when you've mastered them. Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance Chiku Za (Kodama Hiroyuki): Koku (shakuhachi music) Takemitsu: From me flows what you call Time Photo: Tea Tray Enso John Daido Loori: The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life Audrey Yoshiko Seo: Enso: Zen Circles of Enlightenment If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Part of Zen tradition is to follow silly rules in order to become free of silly rules. Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

How do zen people get motivated? Is sitting zazen a form of procrastination? Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Should you try to live a monastic life at home?  Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance Monty Python: Four Yorkshiremen If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We discuss why a Zen vacuum cleaner comes with no attachments. We speak passionately about equanimity, and revel in non-attachment. Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance Episode 15: I'm Dreaming of a Zen Christmas Tsundoku Historical European new year dates Theme music by Kiku Day. If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

In the triumvirate of the three jewels, dharma and sangha are inferior to the Buddha, but are they really? Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance Theme music by Kiku Day. If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Some people say that Zen isn't really Buddhism. We disagree. Treeleaf Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche What Makes You Not a Buddhist The Cup Mubi Episode 62: Buddhisms John Cage: Indeterminacy Theme music by Kiku Day. If you want to get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We discuss the bramavihara, or four divine abodes, and Jundo chants to bring the moon back. Treeleaf Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance Bramavihara Life Is Hard by Kieran Setiya review Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We discuss the paramitas, or the virtues of a bodhisattva. Treeleaf Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance Paramitas Episode 31: The Precepts Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We answer the timeless question of, what is, who is a Bodhisattva. Treeleaf Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance List of bodhisattvas (Wikipedia) Stephen Batchelor, Living with the Devil Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

What's all this stuff about rebirth? Can we really be reborn as the god of the perfect bagel, or as slugs? Treeleaf Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance Episode 35: Karma Hungry ghosts Gil Fronsdal, Should I Believe in Rebirth? Pascal's wager Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

The eightfold path describes how we should live. Treeleaf Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance The Eightfold Path Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

The twelve steps of dependent origination describe how the self is formed, how we perceive the world, and how we grasp and desire things. Treeleaf Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance Dependent origination Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Buddhism often talks about how there is no self, but there is a self; if not, we couldn't take selfies. But at the same time there's no self. No problem. Treeleaf Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

But dukkha is about much more than suffering: it also means dissatisfaction, anxiety, frustration and disappointment. Its opposite is sukha, which means satisfaction, equanimity, ease, flowing with conditions. "Dukkha is sucky, but sukha is ducky." Treeleaf Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

This is the first episode of our Buddha Basics series, which looks at the basics of Buddhism as never expressed before, featuring the irreverent comments of Reverend Jundo, a real Zen Roshi. No Buddha BS here. In this Buddha Basics episode, we look at why there are so many Buddhas, an infinite number of Buddhas, and who's who. "They're all the same Buddha, which is no buddha at all." Treeleaf Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We discuss abortion and women's right to choose from a Buddhist perspective. Treeleaf Mizuko kuyō Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

How big is the universe? How long is time? Treeleaf Edwin A. Abott: Flatland Where Is The Center of the Universe? Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We generally avoid politics, but with the increased gun violence in the US, we had to talk about zen and guns. Treeleaf Water Margin Daiho Hilbert Osaka school massacre Dr. Stef Aupers: Conspiracy theories between secular scepticism and religious salvation Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

What is the zen of music? How does music touch us and make us feel one with the world? And was the Eurovision Song Contest was very good this year? Treeleaf Eurovision 2022 participants Guo Gu The Zen Master's Dance Grateful Dead, Morning Dew (Live at Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 5/8/77) The Next Track, Episode #130 - Desert Island Discs, Part 1 Merlin Bird ID Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

After the blues, the good times. Treeleaf Shunryu Suzuki: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Even zen monks get the blues sometimes. Treeleaf Thelonius Monk: Blue Monk Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

What is beautiful to zen practitioners? Treeleaf Ryōan-ji garden John Cage: Ryōan-ji Treeleaf NOW! calendar, to find Washin's sittings Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo announces a new beginning for the future of zen in the universe. Treeleaf Zendo April 1 Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We use technology frequently, but we need to handle it wisely and respect it, with balance and moderation, and, occasionally, honor it. Treeleaf Zendo Treeleaf Memorial for Electronics Plum Blossoms in Japan: Best Places to See 2022 Dogen on plum blossoms Daisy, Apple's recycling robot Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Zen doesn't often talk about love: romantic love, love for family, love for country, or just a simple love of tea. Treeleaf Zendo Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We don't always have to agree with everyone. Sometimes we have to dissent. Treeleaf Zendo George Lakoff: Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think Episode 62: Buddhisms Where the Heart Beats; John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists Soto Buddhist Zen Association Thich Nhat Hanh Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Zazen is good for nothing, according to Kodo Sawaki. If so, then why do we sit? Also, ice cream sundaes and Möbius strips. Treeleaf Zendo The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo Good for Nothing, interview with Shohaku Okumura Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

A key phrase of Dogen's teaching is "dropping body and mind," a description of his enlightenment. Jundo and Kirk discuss what this means, and how you can drop body and mind when sitting zazen. Treeleaf Zendo The Zen Master's Dance Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo Steven Heine: Dogen, Japan's Original Zen Teacher Dogen Casts Off "What": An Analysis of Shinjin Datsuraku The Life of Zen Master Dogen (movie) Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

It's a new year, and everything is always new, except when it's not. "The past is today that was yesterday. And the future is yesterday that will be tomorrow." Treeleaf Zendo The Zen Master's Dance Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Our 2019 Christmas episode was so good, and we realized that we would never be able to record a better Christmas episode, so we decided to rebroadcast it this year. Jundo and Kirk discuss how Christmas and Zen can find common ground, and discuss their favorite Zen Christmas carols. Treeleaf Zendo Rohatsu - Bodhi Day (Wikipedia) Joseph Campbell: The Hero with a Thousand Faces Santa Bodhisattva Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (Wikipedia) Christmas in Japan Allen Ginsberg chanting the Heart Sutra Kaz Tanahashi's ensos Theme music by Kiku Day. To submit a question, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

How do we choose among the many things available to us? There are too many breakfast cereals; do we really need them all? Which coffee or tea do you choose? And what about big choices? Should we stay or should we go? Treeleaf Zendo Why I Wear The Exact Same Thing to Work Every Day Getting Things Done, David Allen Episode 62: Buddhisms Blink, Malcolm Gladwell FakeSpot Theme music by Kiku Day. To get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk talk about the various flavors of Buddhism. They are not all the same, and we discuss the differences between the various schools that have changed over the centuries. Treeleaf Zendo Schools of Buddhism (Wikipedia) Stephen Batchelor Theme music by Kiku Day. To get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk discuss tradition in zen. What are those funny sticks that the zen masters have, and what are they used for? Treeleaf Zendo Shippei Jundo on the Secular Buddhist Podcast The Zen Master's Dance Theme music by Kiku Day. To get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk examine whether Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals deserves a critical reappraisal. And they talk about animals, sentience, and eating meat (or not). Treeleaf Zendo Rationale for not Eating Meat in Buddhism (Treeleaf forum) Steven Heine: Like Cats and Dogs: Contesting the Mu Koan in Zen Buddhism Theme music by Kiku Day. To get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk discuss how moderation is enlightenment, and how Goldilocks is the Buddha. Sort of. Treeleaf Zendo Episode 58: In the Moment The Goldilocks principle Soryo (僧侶) Golden, B.C., woman nearly hit by meteorite in her own home Theme music by Kiku Day. To get in touch, send an email to [email protected]. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.