The Zen of Everything
A zen take on life, love, laughter, and everything else.
About the show
The Zen of Everything presents a zen take on life, love, laughter, and everything else. With Jundo Cohen, a real zen master, and Kirk McElhearn, a guy who knows a bit about zen.
Episodes
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Episode 102: Buddha Basics 15: The Heart Sutra Explained in 25 Minutes
June 9th, 2023 | 30 mins 25 secs
Jundo attempts to explain the Heart Sutra in 25 minutes.
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Episode 101: Big and Small
May 26th, 2023 | 23 mins 19 secs
Big and small, two extremes, but, in zen, there's no difference.
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Episode 100: Two Guys in a Zen Pub
May 12th, 2023 | 27 mins 30 secs
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...
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Episode 99: Buddha Basics 14: The Five Hindrances
April 28th, 2023 | 21 mins 41 secs
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?
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Episode 96: Thinking about Thoughts
March 17th, 2023 | 26 mins 3 secs
We think thoughts all the time. Why do we have these thoughts, and how do we deal with them?
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Episode 95: Buddha Basics 13: Practice, Practice, Practice
March 3rd, 2023 | 24 mins 25 secs
What does it mean to practice zen?
"Every tick of the clock holds all of time in the universe."
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Episode 94: Zen and Creativity
February 17th, 2023 | 24 mins 30 secs
The Zen arts have very strict rules, which you can break when you've mastered them.
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Episode 93: Rules and When to Break Them
February 3rd, 2023 | 25 mins 50 secs
Part of Zen tradition is to follow silly rules in order to become free of silly rules.
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Episode 92: Motivation
January 20th, 2023 | 25 mins 48 secs
How do zen people get motivated? Is sitting zazen a form of procrastination?
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Episode 91: Monastic Life at Home
January 6th, 2023 | 24 mins 11 secs
Should you try to live a monastic life at home? 
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Episode 90: Buddha Basics 12: Equanimiousness
December 23rd, 2022 | 25 mins 24 secs
We discuss why a Zen vacuum cleaner comes with no attachments. We speak passionately about equanimity, and revel in non-attachment.
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Episode 89: Buddha Basics 11: DharmaSangha
December 9th, 2022 | 25 mins 4 secs
In the triumvirate of the three jewels, dharma and sangha are inferior to the Buddha, but are they really?
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Episode 88: Buddha Basics 10: Is Zen (Even) Buddhism
November 25th, 2022 | 24 mins 51 secs
Some people say that Zen isn't really Buddhism. We disagree.
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Episode 87: Buddha Basics 09: The Divine Abodes
November 11th, 2022 | 23 mins 14 secs
We discuss the bramavihara, or four divine abodes, and Jundo chants to bring the moon back.