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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . 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 podcast@zen-of-everything.com . If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.