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Back to SearchEmily Eslami - The Worst Horse
Episode 244
“A Zen master's life could be said to be so many years of one continuous mistake. This means so many years of one single minded effort.” - Shunryu Su…
3 years, 9 months ago
Dave Cuomo - Space Dust (Host and Guest)
Episode 243
”My job isn't to not make mistakes, it's to figure them out. That's the fun of it. They’re not really mistakes. They’re what I’m supposed to be doing…
3 years, 10 months ago
Erik Andersen - “An Unfortunate Sequence of Events” (Sacred or Mundane?)
Episode 242
"This moment is not sacred. It's not mundane. It's weird. Find the weirdness." - Erik Andersen
Erik takes a loving look at the cold hard truth that…
3 years, 10 months ago
Dave Cuomo - Heavenly Hells! (Vimalakirti Sutra ch 8)
Episode 241
“Plant seeds in the sky and they’ll never grow. Plant them in dung and dirt and watch them flourish.” - Manjushri
In the culminating thesis of the…
3 years, 10 months ago
Sara Campbell - Instruction Manual for Living (The Wayward Mind)
Episode 240
“You don’t seek the way, the way seeks you!” - Kodo Sawaki
Sara shares with us the enlightening existential crisis of her wayward mind which, accor…
3 years, 10 months ago
Emily Eslami - Mind Waves, Mind Weeds
Episode 239
“We say, ‘Pulling out the weeds we give nourishment to the plant.’ We pull the weeds and bury them near the plant to give it nourishment. So even tho…
3 years, 11 months ago
Dave Cuomo - A Quiet Resistance (Political Engagement in Buddhism)
Episode 238
"Whatever the ineffable is, it doesn't seem too concerned with our politics. But then we're also always told that the ineffable is nothing but what h…
3 years, 11 months ago
Dave Cuomo - Flowers Abound! (Vimalakirti ch7 - The Goddess)
Episode 237
“The nice thing about a Zen Center is they make it really easy to be a good person. Just follow the script - bowing, sitting, chanting enlightened th…
3 years, 11 months ago
Erik Andersen - City of Illusion
Episode 236
“If the pure land isn’t real, maybe we can make this a pure land. Even if it doesn't add up to anything, maybe our own brains can be a Buddha land - …
3 years, 11 months ago
Gyokei Yokoyama - The Great Experiment
Episode 235
“Part of us dies in this process. It’s like a beautiful salad that starts to whither and you feel like something was lost… It’s like finding trust in…
4 years ago