Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDave Cuomo - Ignorance is Bliss (pt 1 - The 12 Fold Chain)
Episode 177
"In classical Buddhism, the fundamental mistake is that getting what you think you want will make you happy. In Zen they seem to say the fundamental …
5 years, 2 months ago
Emily Eslami - Love Potion ((#)9th Precept - No Giving Way to Anger)
Episode 175
"When you get mad at yourself, that means you’re mad at another self. Maybe you turn your face and see yourself. Or you see yourself as other. This i…
5 years, 2 months ago
Dave Cuomo - Fringe Benefit
Episode 173
"If you want to make peace with yourself and not hate zazen, it's going to help to like yourself, or at least just accept yourself the way you are. I…
5 years, 3 months ago
Emily Eslami - My Missing Piece (8th Precept - No Coveting)
Episode 171
"When you go to the mountain, and see a flower blooming, pick it, break it, and make it yours - this is attachment. If you let it be there for everyt…
5 years, 3 months ago
Dave Cuomo - A Functional Fantasy Land
Episode 170
"To love the mountains is not to know about mountains, but to climb mountains and to live and die continuously with them.
The best way to realize the…
5 years, 4 months ago
Dave Cuomo - Karma Happens
Episode 167
"Sometimes I walk by a pile of poo and think "What jerk did that? I hate that guy. This is why we can't have nice things." And then I go around telli…
5 years, 4 months ago
Emily Eslami - The Fundamental Human Disaster (7th precept - No Praising Self or Berating Others)
Episode 166
"There's a saying, do you want to be right or do you want to be married? I would extend that to, do you want to be right or do you want to be human? …
5 years, 5 months ago
Dave Cuomo - An Unknowable Hope (Inmo)
Episode 164
"If everything you know isn't working, what do you have left? What you don't know. When you stop and allow space for what you don't know to happen, s…
5 years, 5 months ago
Emily Eslami - Stuck in the Mud With You (6th Precept - No Speaking of Past Mistakes)
Episode 163
“…other people’s mistakes, the mistakes you can’t stop talking about, your mistakes, the mistakes you think are worse than everyone else’s, look arou…
5 years, 5 months ago
Dave Cuomo - Bursting Buckets of Buddha!
Episode 161
“With this and that I tried to keep the bucket together
Then the bottom fell out.
Where water does not collect,
The moon does not dwell”
- Mugai Nyod…
5 years, 6 months ago