Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChaotic, Reckless, Wakefulness (How to train Zen) w/ Gyokei Yokoyama
Episode 364
Gyokei takes an honest historical look at the tough love of monastic training, and the rebels and reformers who tried to improve it along the way. Wh…
1 year, 4 months ago
Open Secrets (How to teach Zen) w/ Dave Cuomo
Episode 363
Dave looks into Zen’s famous wariness towards teachers and teaching, while delving into his own hang ups around the role as he prepares to formally p…
1 year, 4 months ago
Spiritual Anarchy w/ Dave Cuomo
Episode 362
Dave tries to find some harmony between the power of rigid forms and the chaos of personal liberation, with mixed results, and offers up a practical …
1 year, 5 months ago
An Unsettled Life w/ Henry Zander
Episode 361
Henry eloquently confronts an all too relatable existential crisis of accomplishment as he graduates college and tries to figure out who he is when t…
1 year, 5 months ago
Epiphany! (What Am I Doing Here??) w/ Andy Thomas
Episode 360
Andy generously shares his personal practice story (don’t call it a spiritual journey…) from young Catholic doubts to a midlife crisis that sent him …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Body Poetic w/ Henry Zander
Episode 359
Henry gets us out of our heads and into our bodies with encouragements for a more embodied understanding of what zazen is really doing with us. How c…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Raw Impulse of Inspiration (Body/Mind Practice) w/ Dave Cuomo
Episode 358
Dave brings us a clear and lucid roadmap to working through the mind and body in zazen, from distracted self to senseless samadhi through a recently …
1 year, 6 months ago
The Good Prison (Sh*t Talk & Criticism) w/ Jordan Mylet
Episode 357
“Would it necessarily be so bad to call out other people, to call out ourselves? What if the fact that we’re all sometimes petty, selfish, thoughtles…
1 year, 6 months ago
Embodied Economics w/ Dave Cuomo
Episode 356
“I don't want to fight things anymore. I’d rather just make them beautiful. If we have to do something, let's make it art.” - Dave Cuomo
Dave tries…
1 year, 6 months ago
Wonderfully Useless (Profitless Pursuit) w/ Patrick Carroll
Episode 355
“You say you'd like to try to do zazen in order to become a better person. How ridiculous. How could a person ever become something better?” - Kodo S…
1 year, 7 months ago