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Hardcore Zen — 100 episodes

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Title
1

Tassajara Stories

2

Faith and Doubt

3

The Zen of Meat

4

Zen Retreats and Deep Meditation

5

How to Get Results from Meditation

6

Suffering Never Goes Away But That's All Right

7

The Dark Side of Mindfulness

8

I Am Not This Body

9

I Am Not Very "Zen"

10

Zen & The Four Noble Truths

11

Why Does Zen Care So Much About Ethics?

12

When a Dharma Talk is Not a Dharma Talk

13

Surgery Report

14

Don't View Big Fish!

15

Nobody Knows Anything (My Cancer Story)

16

Why Does Meditation Take So Long?

17

The Dalia Lama sez Don't meditate to Feel Better

18

There Are No Zen Teachers

19

Is Life a Kind of Dream?

20

What Are You Gonna Do With Enlightenment?

21

The Dharma of Disclosure Day

22

Making Effort in Meditation

23

Stages of Enlightenment

24

Is ENLIGHTENMENT the Point of Zen?

25

What is Zazen Supposed to Do?

26

The Elimination of Suffering

27

Is Zen a Form of Buddhism?

28

Meditation and Pain

29

Don't Criticize Buddhists!

30

Does Everyone Experience Karma the Same Way?

31

Sometimes Pain is Bad

32

Sometimes Pain is Good

33

Self and Time

34

Life is Just Life, Death is Just Death

35

Zen Author David Chadwick 1945-2026

36

My Ketamine Experience

37

Self Power vs. Other Power

38

Science Proves Buddhism! ... Or Does It?

39

Blowing Zen?

40

Radical Acceptance: The Only Approach That Makes Sense

41

Why Doesn't Zen Talk About Loving Kindness?

42

How to Achieve One-Pointed Concentration

43

Are We LARP-ing Zen?

44

What If There is ABSOLUTELY No Zen Teacher Nearby?

45

Why Do You Need a Teacher to Study Buddhism

46

Should You Study Zen Without a Teacher?

47

A Zen View of PLURIBUS

48

What do I Think of Robot Zen??!!

49

What If You Haven't Accomplished Anything?

50

Working With Koans

51

Love in Zen

52

Forgivenes in Buddhism

53

Will Doing Zazen Help Me Understand Buddhism?

54

How to Avoid Picking & Choosing

55

Dogen's Dreams

56

Buddhist Intuition

57

The Zen Way to Listen to Music (Rest in Peace, Ace)

58

Letting Go of Enlightenment

59

Just Follow Circumstances

60

Finding Enlightenment Within Delusion

61

Mind is Not Thought

62

Your Opinions Don't Matter & Neither Do Mine

63

Space in Zen Buddhism

64

Expressing a Dream Within a Dream

65

Motivation for Meditation

66

Should You Teach Zen Before You Master Zen?

67

The Zen of Optimism

68

Does a Dog Have Buddha Nature?

69

Dogen's Tears

70

Don't Anticipate and Don't Regret

71

Thought Has No Answers

72

Is Buddhism Anti-Children?

73

The Power of Prayer

74

Dogen's Meditation Instructions

75

Cultivating Non-Attachment to Family & Friends

76

A Monk Walks Into a Bar...

77

The Samadhi of Receiving & Using the Self

78

I-Less Abiding

79

Mortality & Death in Buddhism

80

What 5 Nights in Hospital Taught Me

81

Primordial Ignorance

82

Buddha As a Toilet

83

The Zen of Godzilla

84

Are You Being Seen by Your Zen Teacher?

85

Don't Fear Fear

86

What Are You Gonna Do With Your Life?

87

Is Karma Fake??

88

Mother's Day When Your Mom is Dead

89

Zen As Self Help

90

Dogen's Other Shobogenzo

91

Zen When You're Sick

92

Work As Zen Practice

93

What Do We Put Our Faith In?

94

Spiritual By-Passing

95

The Ocean of Consciousness

96

Spirit in Buddhism

97

The White Lotus - A Buddhist Review

98

The Four Noble Truths Are WRONG!

99

What's Even the Point of Enlightenment?

100

The Power of Now is Wrong!