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Contemplating the Future: The Middle Way Between Dread and Hope
Episode 191
When we contemplate the future, it may seem like we have only two options: dread, or hope. If we can't summon hope, we may avoid thinking about the f…
4 years, 7 months ago
Leaping Beyond Fear of Rejection: Giving the Gift of Self
Episode 190
The gift of self - such as our time, attention, energy, enthusiasm, perspective, sympathy, and creativity brightens the lives of everyone around us. …
4 years, 7 months ago
Collecting the Heart-Mind: A Celebration of Sesshin – Part 1
Episode 189
Sesshin - a silent, residential, Zen meditation retreat involving a 24-hour communal schedule - is an extremely valuable way to deepen your Zen pract…
4 years, 8 months ago
What Does Practice Look Like When Your Country Is Broken?
Episode 188
When our country - or global community - is broken, how do we practice? Faced with incomprehensible violence, injustice, lies, greed, and destruction…
4 years, 8 months ago
Lotus Sutra 5: Step Right Up to Get YOUR Prediction of Buddhahood
Episode 187
In the Lotus Sutra, thousands of the Buddha's disciples line up, each requesting their own, personal prediction of buddhahood. What is this about? Sh…
4 years, 9 months ago
Making Peace with Ghosts: Unresolved Karma and the Sejiki (Segaki) Festival
Episode 186
The annual Buddhist ceremony of "feeding the hungry ghosts," or Sejiki, offers rich mythological imagery as a teaching. Metaphorically, a "ghost" is …
4 years, 9 months ago
14 Ways to Enliven Your Zazen – Part 2
Episode 185
I share nine more ways to enliven your zazen without employing methods that introduce dualism and struggle into your sitting. See Episode 184 for why…
4 years, 9 months ago
Natural Koans: Engaging Our Limitations as Dharma Gates
Episode 183
Formal Zen koans are short stories or statements by past Chan/Zen masters which have been passed down through the generations for study and contempla…
4 years, 10 months ago
Answers to Interview Questions from Eastern Horizon Magazine
Episode 182
I share with you questions and answers from my 2020 written interview for Eastern Horizon, a tri-annual magazine of the Young Buddhist Association of…
4 years, 10 months ago