{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"The Zen of Everything","home_page_url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com","feed_url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/json","description":"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. ","_fireside":{"subtitle":"A zen take on life, love, laughter, and everything else.","pubdate":"2023-09-01T06:00:00.000Z","explicit":false,"owner":"Jundo Cohen & Kirk McElhearn","image":"https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/images/3/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/cover.jpg?v=1"},"items":[{"id":"d4aac1db-7c98-490c-bc22-dd8ca3f061d6","title":"Episode 108: A Look Back","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/108","content_text":"How did we get here? Jundo and Kirk discuss how they got involved in Buddhism and Zen.\n\n\nTreeleaf\n108\nWhat are the 108 Defilements (Bonno)\nZen Mind, Beginner's Mind\nZen Flesh, Zen Bones\nMeditation in Action\nSeeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation \nJohn Cage: Indeterminacy\n\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

How did we get here? Jundo and Kirk discuss how they got involved in Buddhism and Zen.

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If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com.

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If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

","summary":"How did we get here? Jundo and Kirk discuss how they got involved in Buddhism and Zen.\r\n","date_published":"2023-09-01T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/d4aac1db-7c98-490c-bc22-dd8ca3f061d6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":16059291,"duration_in_seconds":2007}]},{"id":"2063f0e6-d87b-47c0-8b6b-ce39e7516a7e","title":"Episode 107: Bad Buddhists","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/107","content_text":"Aren't buddhists supposed to maintain equanimity all the time, not have bad thoughts, not be jealous or angry? \n\n\nTreeleaf\nVinaya rules about sex\nJames Austin: Zen and the Brain\n\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Aren't buddhists supposed to maintain equanimity all the time, not have bad thoughts, not be jealous or angry?

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","summary":"Aren't buddhists supposed to maintain equanimity all the time, not have bad thoughts, not be jealous or angry? \r\n","date_published":"2023-08-18T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/2063f0e6-d87b-47c0-8b6b-ce39e7516a7e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11533838,"duration_in_seconds":1441}]},{"id":"5e4bb678-7362-4a06-a980-3996006ff453","title":"Episode 106: Was Buddha a Revolutionary or a Conservative?","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/106","content_text":"Was the Buddha a proto-communist, or did he go with the flow and the status quo?\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\n\n\n- Karl Marx: Capital\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Was the Buddha a proto-communist, or did he go with the flow and the status quo?

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- Karl Marx: Capital

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","summary":"Was the Buddha a proto-communist, or did he go with the flow and the status quo?\r\n","date_published":"2023-08-04T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/5e4bb678-7362-4a06-a980-3996006ff453.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12833064,"duration_in_seconds":1604}]},{"id":"7ce4faaf-0447-43c8-9c56-73a885260ea6","title":"Episode 105: The Monk with a Mortgage","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/105","content_text":"Some zen practitioners get ordained, becoming unsui, or \"clouds in water,\" which means they are trainee zen monks or priest. We discuss ordination and what it means.\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\nRenpo Niwa Zenji\n\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Some zen practitioners get ordained, becoming unsui, or "clouds in water," which means they are trainee zen monks or priest. We discuss ordination and what it means.

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If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com.

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","summary":"Some zen practitioners get ordained, becoming unsui, or \"clouds in water,\" which means they are trainee zen monks or priest. We discuss ordination and what it means.\r\n","date_published":"2023-07-21T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/7ce4faaf-0447-43c8-9c56-73a885260ea6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12275089,"duration_in_seconds":1534}]},{"id":"4a09a7b4-5469-4904-bd83-0b609e40ce96","title":"Episode 104: The Best Zen Books","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/104","content_text":"Zen is the transmission outside of words. But there sure are a lot of books about Zen. We look at some of the best books on Zen. Soto Zen, that is. \n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\nKosho Uchiyama Roshi: Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice\nKosho Uchiyama Roshi: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment\nShunryu Suzuki: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice\nZen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings\nPhilip Kapleau Roshi: The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment\nShohaku Okumura: Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo\nDogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries\nShohaku Okumura: The Mountains and Waters Sutra: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's \"Sansuikyo\"\nSteven Heine: Readings of Dōgen's \"Treasury of the True Dharma Eye\" \nSteven Heine: Dogen: Japan's Original Zen Teacher\nTaigen Dan Leighton: Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dōgen and the Lotus Sutra\nKosho Uchiyama Roshi: Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom: Three Fascicles from Shobogenzo with Commentary\nKazuaki Tanahashi: Enlightenment Unfolds: the essential teachings of Dogen\nKazuaki Tanahashi: Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen\nWill Johnson: The Posture of Meditation\nBarbara Hoetsu O'Brien: The Circle of the Way - A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World\nJonathan Landaw & Stephan Bodian: Buddhism For Dummies\nDiana St. Ruth: Simple Guide to Zen Buddhism\nSky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan, translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi\nKazuaki Tanahashi: The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan\nRed Pine: The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain\nNorman Fischer & Susan Moon: What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind\nStephen Batchelor: The Art of Solitude\nBrian Daizen Victoria: Zen at War\nSuggested BOOKS & MEDIA on Zen Practice (Treeleaf)\n\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Zen is the transmission outside of words. But there sure are a lot of books about Zen. We look at some of the best books on Zen. Soto Zen, that is.

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If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com.

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If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

","summary":"Zen is the transmission outside of words. But there sure are a lot of books about Zen. We look at some of the best books on Zen. Soto Zen, that is. \r\n","date_published":"2023-07-07T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/4a09a7b4-5469-4904-bd83-0b609e40ce96.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13225737,"duration_in_seconds":1653}]},{"id":"43f5202a-acd7-4084-b4bd-c1f8d2b2ca3f","title":"Episode 103: Jundo's Decluttering Tips","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/103","content_text":"We have too much stuff. We discuss the CohenJundo method of decluttering.\n\n\nTreeleaf\n\n\n- Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

We have too much stuff. We discuss the CohenJundo method of decluttering.

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- Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance

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","summary":"We have too much stuff. We discuss the CohenJundo method of decluttering.\r\n","date_published":"2023-06-23T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/43f5202a-acd7-4084-b4bd-c1f8d2b2ca3f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12613009,"duration_in_seconds":1576}]},{"id":"98fafaed-2761-4ce3-96cd-e15dd8cb8a6a","title":"Episode 102: Buddha Basics 15: The Heart Sutra Explained in 25 Minutes ","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/102","content_text":"Jundo attempts to explain the Heart Sutra in 25 minutes. \n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\nThe Heart Sutra\nAvalokiteśvara (Kannon)\nBuddha Basics 02: Dukkha Sucks\n\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo attempts to explain the Heart Sutra in 25 minutes.

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","summary":"Jundo attempts to explain the Heart Sutra in 25 minutes. \r\n","date_published":"2023-06-09T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/98fafaed-2761-4ce3-96cd-e15dd8cb8a6a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":14604375,"duration_in_seconds":1825}]},{"id":"b2bb067b-fd4f-432f-85c2-c4106f6b2143","title":"Episode 101: Big and Small","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/101","content_text":"Big and small, two extremes, but, in zen, there's no difference.\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\nUshiku Daibutsu\n\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Big and small, two extremes, but, in zen, there's no difference.

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","summary":"Big and small, two extremes, but, in zen, there's no difference.\r\n","date_published":"2023-05-26T06:30:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/b2bb067b-fd4f-432f-85c2-c4106f6b2143.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11192574,"duration_in_seconds":1399}]},{"id":"9dd074e7-e71d-4059-b484-d5c0b0706746","title":"Episode 100: Two Guys in a Zen Pub","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/100","content_text":"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... \n\nThe universe is a cosmic joke, and we are the punchline.\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\nKirk's podcasts\nNishijima Roshi: The Dish Rack Teachings\n\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

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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The universe is a cosmic joke, and we are the punchline.

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If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com.

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If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

","summary":"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... \r\n","date_published":"2023-05-12T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/9dd074e7-e71d-4059-b484-d5c0b0706746.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13201495,"duration_in_seconds":1650}]},{"id":"8849b587-be62-4e15-9c24-866488e728ee","title":"Episode 99: Buddha Basics 14: The Five Hindrances","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/99","content_text":"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?\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\n\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

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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If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com.

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","summary":"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?\r\n","date_published":"2023-04-28T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/8849b587-be62-4e15-9c24-866488e728ee.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":10409319,"duration_in_seconds":1301}]},{"id":"05c23fdd-bbfa-4446-b0be-167b54698829","title":"Episode 98: Flying Rabbits on the Moon","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/98","content_text":"Do we know anything?\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\n\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Do we know anything?

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","summary":"Do we know anything?\r\n","date_published":"2023-04-14T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/05c23fdd-bbfa-4446-b0be-167b54698829.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12301629,"duration_in_seconds":1537}]},{"id":"bc54d184-e6e9-4349-a8ab-88453071c17c","title":"Episode 97: Prayer","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/97","content_text":"Is there prayer in zen?\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\nStudy of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients: a multicenter randomized trial of uncertainty and certainty of receiving intercessory prayer\n\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Is there prayer in zen?

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","summary":"Is there prayer in zen?\r\n","date_published":"2023-03-31T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/bc54d184-e6e9-4349-a8ab-88453071c17c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11484310,"duration_in_seconds":1435}]},{"id":"2872c5fc-9aea-484c-88b9-610d2111688c","title":"Episode 96: Thinking about Thoughts","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/96","content_text":"We think thoughts all the time. Why do we have these thoughts, and how do we deal with them?\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\nEpisode 95: Buddha Basics 13: Practice, Practice, Practice\n\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

We think thoughts all the time. Why do we have these thoughts, and how do we deal with them?

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","summary":"We think thoughts all the time. Why do we have these thoughts, and how do we deal with them?\r\n","date_published":"2023-03-17T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/2872c5fc-9aea-484c-88b9-610d2111688c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12505175,"duration_in_seconds":1563}]},{"id":"761f4ebd-e62f-4d3d-bc26-12150975043f","title":"Episode 95: Buddha Basics 13: Practice, Practice, Practice","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/95","content_text":"What does it mean to practice zen? \n\n\"Every tick of the clock holds all of time in the universe.\" \n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\nNishijima Roshi: The Dish Rack Teachings\nSteve Howe: Clap\n\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

What does it mean to practice zen?

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"Every tick of the clock holds all of time in the universe."

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","summary":"What does it mean to practice zen? \r\n\r\n\"Every tick of the clock holds all of time in the universe.\" ","date_published":"2023-03-03T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/761f4ebd-e62f-4d3d-bc26-12150975043f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11727562,"duration_in_seconds":1465}]},{"id":"bba13c59-76c3-4730-8fc8-324322ff1b45","title":"Episode 94: Zen and Creativity","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/94","content_text":"The Zen arts have very strict rules, which you can break when you've mastered them.\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\nChiku Za (Kodama Hiroyuki): Koku (shakuhachi music)\nTakemitsu: From me flows what you call Time\nPhoto: Tea Tray Enso\nJohn Daido Loori: The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life\nAudrey Yoshiko Seo: Enso: Zen Circles of Enlightenment\n\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

The Zen arts have very strict rules, which you can break when you've mastered them.

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","summary":"The Zen arts have very strict rules, which you can break when you've mastered them.\r\n","date_published":"2023-02-17T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/bba13c59-76c3-4730-8fc8-324322ff1b45.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11765597,"duration_in_seconds":1470}]},{"id":"edcee606-e7f8-46fe-bd2f-d8f060f1557f","title":"Episode 93: Rules and When to Break Them","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/93","content_text":"Part of Zen tradition is to follow silly rules in order to become free of silly rules.\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\n\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Part of Zen tradition is to follow silly rules in order to become free of silly rules.

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","summary":"Part of Zen tradition is to follow silly rules in order to become free of silly rules.\r\n","date_published":"2023-02-03T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/edcee606-e7f8-46fe-bd2f-d8f060f1557f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12400268,"duration_in_seconds":1550}]},{"id":"aa39564a-ccf3-41fd-bc79-da3b8bc74cf0","title":"Episode 92: Motivation","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/92","content_text":"How do zen people get motivated? Is sitting zazen a form of procrastination? \n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\n\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

How do zen people get motivated? Is sitting zazen a form of procrastination?

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","summary":"How do zen people get motivated? Is sitting zazen a form of procrastination? \r\n","date_published":"2023-01-20T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/aa39564a-ccf3-41fd-bc79-da3b8bc74cf0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12389819,"duration_in_seconds":1548}]},{"id":"d920690f-653b-4db1-968f-481fd6fc9528","title":"Episode 91: Monastic Life at Home","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/91","content_text":"Should you try to live a monastic life at home? \n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\nMonty Python: Four Yorkshiremen\n\n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Should you try to live a monastic life at home? 

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","summary":"Should you try to live a monastic life at home? \r\n","date_published":"2023-01-06T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/d920690f-653b-4db1-968f-481fd6fc9528.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11615131,"duration_in_seconds":1451}]},{"id":"494194fc-8a84-4bd5-94e4-38e462ffbb72","title":"Episode 90: Buddha Basics 12: Equanimiousness","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/90","content_text":"We discuss why a Zen vacuum cleaner comes with no attachments. We speak passionately about equanimity, and revel in non-attachment.\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\nEpisode 15: I'm Dreaming of a Zen Christmas\nTsundoku\nHistorical European new year dates\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

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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","summary":"We discuss why a Zen vacuum cleaner comes with no attachments. We speak passionately about equanimity, and revel in non-attachment.","date_published":"2022-12-23T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/494194fc-8a84-4bd5-94e4-38e462ffbb72.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12192333,"duration_in_seconds":1524}]},{"id":"c8874b0f-5018-4fdb-b7f9-9a40785d854a","title":"Episode 89: Buddha Basics 11: DharmaSangha","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/89","content_text":"In the triumvirate of the three jewels, dharma and sangha are inferior to the Buddha, but are they really?\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

In the triumvirate of the three jewels, dharma and sangha are inferior to the Buddha, but are they really?

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","summary":"In the triumvirate of the three jewels, dharma and sangha are inferior to the Buddha, but are they really?\r\n","date_published":"2022-12-09T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/c8874b0f-5018-4fdb-b7f9-9a40785d854a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12034135,"duration_in_seconds":1504}]},{"id":"c40f98ec-1984-46ea-9ad5-d82cd8257ad5","title":"Episode 88: Buddha Basics 10: Is Zen (Even) Buddhism","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/88","content_text":"Some people say that Zen isn't really Buddhism. We disagree. \n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance\nDzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche\nWhat Makes You Not a Buddhist\nThe Cup\nMubi \nEpisode 62: Buddhisms\nJohn Cage: Indeterminacy \n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nIf you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Some people say that Zen isn't really Buddhism. We disagree.

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","summary":"Some people say that Zen isn't really Buddhism. We disagree. \r\n","date_published":"2022-11-25T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/c40f98ec-1984-46ea-9ad5-d82cd8257ad5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11930481,"duration_in_seconds":1491}]},{"id":"2b08e8b9-6979-44b2-b577-334a2630c4c2","title":"Episode 87: Buddha Basics 09: The Divine Abodes","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/87","content_text":"We discuss the bramavihara, or four divine abodes, and Jundo chants to bring the moon back.\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance\nBramavihara\nLife Is Hard by Kieran Setiya review\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

We discuss the bramavihara, or four divine abodes, and Jundo chants to bring the moon back.

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","summary":"We discuss the bramavihara, or four divine abodes, and Jundo chants to bring the moon back.\r\n","date_published":"2022-11-11T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/2b08e8b9-6979-44b2-b577-334a2630c4c2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11157257,"duration_in_seconds":1394}]},{"id":"a976027f-fab7-45f3-8b3b-02808d5ae04f","title":"Episode 86: Buddha Basics 08: Let's Meet the Paramitas","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/86","content_text":"We discuss the paramitas, or the virtues of a bodhisattva. \n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance\nParamitas\nEpisode 31: The Precepts\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

We discuss the paramitas, or the virtues of a bodhisattva.

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","summary":"We discuss the paramitas, or the virtues of a bodhisattva. \r\n","date_published":"2022-10-28T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/a976027f-fab7-45f3-8b3b-02808d5ae04f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11327575,"duration_in_seconds":1415}]},{"id":"f2aea3ee-6535-4f2e-91dd-d5ef8ca880f9","title":"Episode 85: Buddha Basics 07: WhatsaWhosaBodhisattva","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/85","content_text":"We answer the timeless question of, what is, who is a Bodhisattva.\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance\nList of bodhisattvas (Wikipedia)\nStephen Batchelor, Living with the Devil\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

We answer the timeless question of, what is, who is a Bodhisattva.

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","summary":"We answer the timeless question of, what is, who is a Bodhisattva.\r\n","date_published":"2022-10-14T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/f2aea3ee-6535-4f2e-91dd-d5ef8ca880f9.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11873430,"duration_in_seconds":1484}]},{"id":"39f8d0dc-9036-4384-b395-33ae2a3ad0dc","title":"Episode 84: Buddha Basics 06: Born-Again Buddha","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/84","content_text":"What's all this stuff about rebirth? Can we really be reborn as the god of the perfect bagel, or as slugs? \n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance\nEpisode 35: Karma\nHungry ghosts\nGil Fronsdal, Should I Believe in Rebirth?\nPascal's wager\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

What's all this stuff about rebirth? Can we really be reborn as the god of the perfect bagel, or as slugs?

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","summary":"What's all this stuff about rebirth? Can we really be reborn as the god of the perfect bagel, or as slugs? \r\n","date_published":"2022-09-30T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/39f8d0dc-9036-4384-b395-33ae2a3ad0dc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12088261,"duration_in_seconds":1511}]},{"id":"2469f501-a454-420f-9da1-ed9d19148c2f","title":"Episode 83: Buddha Basics 05: The Octo-Holistic Lifestyle","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/83","content_text":"The eightfold path describes how we should live. \n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance\nThe Eightfold Path\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

The eightfold path describes how we should live.

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","summary":"The eightfold path describes how we should live. ","date_published":"2022-09-16T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/2469f501-a454-420f-9da1-ed9d19148c2f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12065900,"duration_in_seconds":1508}]},{"id":"2e911cf1-64bb-433f-8b0d-259cac3b461d","title":"Episode 82: Buddha Basics 04: Break That Chain!","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/82","content_text":"The twelve steps of dependent origination describe how the self is formed, how we perceive the world, and how we grasp and desire things. \n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance\nDependent origination\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

The twelve steps of dependent origination describe how the self is formed, how we perceive the world, and how we grasp and desire things.

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","summary":"The twelve steps of dependent origination describe how the self is formed, how we perceive the world, and how we grasp and desire things. \r\n","date_published":"2022-09-02T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/2e911cf1-64bb-433f-8b0d-259cac3b461d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":15744150,"duration_in_seconds":1968}]},{"id":"cd1095cd-c722-4c22-879f-c3052bce0200","title":"Episode 81: Buddha Basics 03: No Self, No Problem","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/81","content_text":"Buddhism often talks about how there is no self, but there is a self; if not, we couldn't take selfies. But at the same time there's no self. No problem.\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Buddhism often talks about how there is no self, but there is a self; if not, we couldn't take selfies. But at the same time there's no self. No problem.

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","summary":"Buddhism often talks about how there is no self, but there is a self; if not, we couldn't take selfies. But at the same time there's no self. No problem.\r\n","date_published":"2022-08-19T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/cd1095cd-c722-4c22-879f-c3052bce0200.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11357877,"duration_in_seconds":1419}]},{"id":"d45962bf-450c-41ab-8292-a2b9b6c7c848","title":"Buddha Basics 02: Dukkha Sucks","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/80","content_text":"But dukkha is about much more than suffering: it also means dissatisfaction, anxiety, frustration and disappointment. Its opposite is sukha, which means satisfaction, equanimity, ease, flowing with conditions.\n\n\"Dukkha is sucky, but sukha is ducky.\"\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

But dukkha is about much more than suffering: it also means dissatisfaction, anxiety, frustration and disappointment. Its opposite is sukha, which means satisfaction, equanimity, ease, flowing with conditions.

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"Dukkha is sucky, but sukha is ducky."

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","summary":"But dukkha is about much more than suffering: it also means dissatisfaction, anxiety, frustration and disappointment. Its opposite is sukha, which means satisfaction, equanimity, ease, flowing with conditions.","date_published":"2022-08-05T05:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/d45962bf-450c-41ab-8292-a2b9b6c7c848.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11662779,"duration_in_seconds":1457}]},{"id":"8dacc9b8-4d16-444e-8114-42db0b2f21bb","title":"Buddha Basics 01: Oodles of Buddhas","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/79","content_text":"This is the first episode of our Buddha Basics series, which looks at the basics of Buddhism as never expressed before, featuring the irreverent comments of Reverend Jundo, a real Zen Roshi. No Buddha BS here. In this Buddha Basics episode, we look at why there are so many Buddhas, an infinite number of Buddhas, and who's who.\n\n\"They're all the same Buddha, which is no buddha at all.\"\n\n\nTreeleaf\nJundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

This is the first episode of our Buddha Basics series, which looks at the basics of Buddhism as never expressed before, featuring the irreverent comments of Reverend Jundo, a real Zen Roshi. No Buddha BS here. In this Buddha Basics episode, we look at why there are so many Buddhas, an infinite number of Buddhas, and who's who.

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"They're all the same Buddha, which is no buddha at all."

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","summary":"This is the first episode of our Buddha Basics series, which looks at the basics of Buddhism as never expressed before, featuring the irreverent comments of Reverend Jundo, a real Zen Roshi. No Buddha BS here. In this Buddha Basics episode, we look at why there are so many Buddhas, an infinite number of Buddhas, and who's who.\r\n","date_published":"2022-07-22T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/8dacc9b8-4d16-444e-8114-42db0b2f21bb.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13343392,"duration_in_seconds":1667}]},{"id":"6b7f9733-bc9e-4580-be67-ed054767c37d","title":"Episode 78: Buddhasplaining","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/78","content_text":"We discuss abortion and women's right to choose from a Buddhist perspective. \n\n\nTreeleaf\nMizuko kuyō\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

We discuss abortion and women's right to choose from a Buddhist perspective.

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","summary":"We discuss abortion and women's right to choose from a Buddhist perspective. \r\n","date_published":"2022-07-08T05:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/6b7f9733-bc9e-4580-be67-ed054767c37d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12600470,"duration_in_seconds":1575}]},{"id":"045ebcfd-d078-4d38-9dd0-e37aebb29e10","title":"Episode 77: The Universe","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/77","content_text":"How big is the universe? How long is time? \n\n\nTreeleaf\nEdwin A. Abott: Flatland\nWhere Is The Center of the Universe?\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

How big is the universe? How long is time?

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","summary":"How big is the universe? How long is time? \r\n","date_published":"2022-06-24T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/045ebcfd-d078-4d38-9dd0-e37aebb29e10.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12501205,"duration_in_seconds":1562}]},{"id":"8317e889-40c0-4a5a-8ebb-85103dba262f","title":"Episode 76: Guns","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/76","content_text":"We generally avoid politics, but with the increased gun violence in the US, we had to talk about zen and guns. \n\n\nTreeleaf\nWater Margin\nDaiho Hilbert\nOsaka school massacre\nDr. Stef Aupers: Conspiracy theories between secular scepticism and religious salvation\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

We generally avoid politics, but with the increased gun violence in the US, we had to talk about zen and guns.

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","summary":"We generally avoid politics, but with the increased gun violence in the US, we had to talk about zen and guns. \r\n","date_published":"2022-06-10T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/8317e889-40c0-4a5a-8ebb-85103dba262f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13284460,"duration_in_seconds":1660}]},{"id":"7090d7fe-ca67-4e02-81ff-9aeafed27ccd","title":"Episode 75: Music","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/75","content_text":"What is the zen of music? How does music touch us and make us feel one with the world? And was the Eurovision Song Contest was very good this year?\n\n\nTreeleaf\nEurovision 2022 participants\nGuo Gu\nThe Zen Master's Dance\nGrateful Dead, Morning Dew (Live at Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 5/8/77)\nThe Next Track, Episode #130 - Desert Island Discs, Part 1\nMerlin Bird ID\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

What is the zen of music? How does music touch us and make us feel one with the world? And was the Eurovision Song Contest was very good this year?

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","summary":"What is the zen of music? How does music touch us and make us feel one with the world? And was the Eurovision Song Contest was very good this year?\r\n","date_published":"2022-05-27T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/7090d7fe-ca67-4e02-81ff-9aeafed27ccd.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11639373,"duration_in_seconds":1454}]},{"id":"fadebd11-1ec7-45bc-97f8-0ba3c9177109","title":"Episode 74: Feeling Better","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/74","content_text":"After the blues, the good times.\n\n\nTreeleaf\nShunryu Suzuki: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

After the blues, the good times.

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","summary":"After the blues, the good times.\r\n","date_published":"2022-05-13T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/fadebd11-1ec7-45bc-97f8-0ba3c9177109.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11742400,"duration_in_seconds":1467}]},{"id":"3a835830-5814-4578-9ef8-ba5f787ea977","title":"Episode 73: Monks' Blues","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/73","content_text":"Even zen monks get the blues sometimes.\n\n\nTreeleaf\nThelonius Monk: Blue Monk\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Even zen monks get the blues sometimes.

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","summary":"Even zen monks get the blues sometimes.\r\n","date_published":"2022-04-29T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/3a835830-5814-4578-9ef8-ba5f787ea977.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11124865,"duration_in_seconds":1390}]},{"id":"f540cda2-3e75-425b-b420-e06c82129e07","title":"Episode 72: Beauty","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/72","content_text":"What is beautiful to zen practitioners?\n\n\nTreeleaf\nRyōan-ji garden\nJohn Cage: Ryōan-ji\nTreeleaf NOW! calendar, to find Washin's sittings\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

What is beautiful to zen practitioners?

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","summary":"What is beautiful to zen practitioners?\r\n","date_published":"2022-04-15T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/f540cda2-3e75-425b-b420-e06c82129e07.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11882834,"duration_in_seconds":1485}]},{"id":"7aa161c2-47af-437b-be38-0986121d3a37","title":"Episode 71: Zen in Space","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/71","content_text":"Jundo announces a new beginning for the future of zen in the universe.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nApril 1\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo announces a new beginning for the future of zen in the universe.

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","summary":"Jundo announces a new beginning for the future of zen in the universe.\r\n","date_published":"2022-04-01T00:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/7aa161c2-47af-437b-be38-0986121d3a37.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":8586181,"duration_in_seconds":1073}]},{"id":"d2d6f248-080d-43eb-8606-a37070bc3d76","title":"Episode 70: Technology","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/70","content_text":"We use technology frequently, but we need to handle it wisely and respect it, with balance and moderation, and, occasionally, honor it.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nTreeleaf Memorial for Electronics\nPlum Blossoms in Japan: Best Places to See 2022\nDogen on plum blossoms\nDaisy, Apple's recycling robot\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

We use technology frequently, but we need to handle it wisely and respect it, with balance and moderation, and, occasionally, honor it.

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","summary":"We use technology frequently, but we need to handle it wisely and respect it, with balance and moderation, and, occasionally, honor it.\r\n","date_published":"2022-03-18T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/d2d6f248-080d-43eb-8606-a37070bc3d76.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12258370,"duration_in_seconds":1532}]},{"id":"89078fb4-d2dc-41b7-8503-7e27c602af26","title":"Episode 69: Love ","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/69","content_text":"Zen doesn't often talk about love: romantic love, love for family, love for country, or just a simple love of tea.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Zen doesn't often talk about love: romantic love, love for family, love for country, or just a simple love of tea.

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","summary":"Zen doesn't often talk about love: romantic love, love for family, love for country, or just a simple love of tea.\r\n","date_published":"2022-03-04T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/89078fb4-d2dc-41b7-8503-7e27c602af26.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11353071,"duration_in_seconds":1419}]},{"id":"83dec57b-60ea-4313-9155-d2adac0e32d4","title":"Episode 68: Dissent","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/68","content_text":"We don't always have to agree with everyone. Sometimes we have to dissent. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nGeorge Lakoff: Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think\nEpisode 62: Buddhisms\nWhere the Heart Beats; John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists\nSoto Buddhist Zen Association\nThich Nhat Hanh\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

We don't always have to agree with everyone. Sometimes we have to dissent.

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","summary":"We don't always have to agree with everyone. Sometimes we have to dissent. \r\n","date_published":"2022-02-18T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/83dec57b-60ea-4313-9155-d2adac0e32d4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11640418,"duration_in_seconds":1455}]},{"id":"68d03a6a-d4a8-4a2a-9f57-250e48757ebb","title":"Episode 67: Good for Nothing","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/67","content_text":"Zazen is good for nothing, according to Kodo Sawaki. If so, then why do we sit? Also, ice cream sundaes and Möbius strips. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nThe Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo\nGood for Nothing, interview with Shohaku Okumura\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Zazen is good for nothing, according to Kodo Sawaki. If so, then why do we sit? Also, ice cream sundaes and Möbius strips.

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","summary":"Zazen is good for nothing, according to Kodo Sawaki. If so, then why do we sit? Also, ice cream sundaes and Möbius strips. \r\n","date_published":"2022-02-04T05:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/68d03a6a-d4a8-4a2a-9f57-250e48757ebb.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11566439,"duration_in_seconds":1445}]},{"id":"f8ab1387-807f-4927-b087-274d04118f85","title":"Episode 66: Dropping","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/66","content_text":"A key phrase of Dogen's teaching is \"dropping body and mind,\" a description of his enlightenment. Jundo and Kirk discuss what this means, and how you can drop body and mind when sitting zazen.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nThe Zen Master's Dance\nTreasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo\nSteven Heine: Dogen, Japan's Original Zen Teacher\nDogen Casts Off \"What\": An Analysis of Shinjin Datsuraku\nThe Life of Zen Master Dogen (movie)\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

A key phrase of Dogen's teaching is "dropping body and mind," a description of his enlightenment. Jundo and Kirk discuss what this means, and how you can drop body and mind when sitting zazen.

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","summary":"A key phrase of Dogen's teaching is \"dropping body and mind,\" a description of his enlightenment. Jundo and Kirk discuss what this means, and how you can drop body and mind when sitting zazen.\r\n","date_published":"2022-01-21T05:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/f8ab1387-807f-4927-b087-274d04118f85.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11416392,"duration_in_seconds":1427}]},{"id":"451591c6-ae60-4c10-89de-dcafec488b93","title":"Episode 65: New","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/65","content_text":"It's a new year, and everything is always new, except when it's not. \"The past is today that was yesterday. And the future is yesterday that will be tomorrow.\" \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nThe Zen Master's Dance\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

It's a new year, and everything is always new, except when it's not. "The past is today that was yesterday. And the future is yesterday that will be tomorrow."

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","summary":"It's a new year, and everything is always new, except when it's not. \"The past is today that was yesterday. And the future is yesterday that will be tomorrow.\" \r\n","date_published":"2022-01-07T05:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/451591c6-ae60-4c10-89de-dcafec488b93.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11679915,"duration_in_seconds":1459}]},{"id":"9ce52c4f-6b24-4c2a-85ad-763959b914b6","title":"Episode 64: I'm Dreaming of a Zen Christmas (Rebroadcast)","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/64","content_text":"Our 2019 Christmas episode was so good, and we realized that we would never be able to record a better Christmas episode, so we decided to rebroadcast it this year. Jundo and Kirk discuss how Christmas and Zen can find common ground, and discuss their favorite Zen Christmas carols.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nRohatsu - Bodhi Day (Wikipedia)\nJoseph Campbell: The Hero with a Thousand Faces\nSanta Bodhisattva\nYes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (Wikipedia)\nChristmas in Japan\nAllen Ginsberg chanting the Heart Sutra\nKaz Tanahashi's ensos\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Our 2019 Christmas episode was so good, and we realized that we would never be able to record a better Christmas episode, so we decided to rebroadcast it this year. Jundo and Kirk discuss how Christmas and Zen can find common ground, and discuss their favorite Zen Christmas carols.

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","summary":"Our 2019 Christmas episode was so good, and we realized that we would never be able to record a better Christmas episode, so we decided to rebroadcast it this year. Jundo and Kirk discuss how Christmas and Zen can find common ground, and discuss their favorite Zen Christmas carols.\r\n","date_published":"2021-12-24T04:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/9ce52c4f-6b24-4c2a-85ad-763959b914b6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":14473972,"duration_in_seconds":1809}]},{"id":"8d6777a0-e7cc-4d86-a930-6f95961b1850","title":"Episode 63: Choices","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/63","content_text":"How do we choose among the many things available to us? There are too many breakfast cereals; do we really need them all? Which coffee or tea do you choose? And what about big choices? Should we stay or should we go?\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nWhy I Wear The Exact Same Thing to Work Every Day\nGetting Things Done, David Allen\nEpisode 62: Buddhisms\nBlink, Malcolm Gladwell\nFakeSpot\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

How do we choose among the many things available to us? There are too many breakfast cereals; do we really need them all? Which coffee or tea do you choose? And what about big choices? Should we stay or should we go?

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","summary":"How do we choose among the many things available to us? There are too many breakfast cereals; do we really need them all? Which coffee or tea do you choose? And what about big choices? Should we stay or should we go?\r\n","date_published":"2021-12-10T04:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/8d6777a0-e7cc-4d86-a930-6f95961b1850.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13541714,"duration_in_seconds":1692}]},{"id":"a3f656e3-47b3-4c25-be34-0496555a7c7a","title":"Episode 62: Buddhisms","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/62","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk talk about the various flavors of Buddhism. They are not all the same, and we discuss the differences between the various schools that have changed over the centuries.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nSchools of Buddhism (Wikipedia)\nStephen Batchelor\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk talk about the various flavors of Buddhism. They are not all the same, and we discuss the differences between the various schools that have changed over the centuries.

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk talk about the various flavors of Buddhism. They are not all the same, and we discuss the differences between the various schools that have changed over the centuries.\r\n","date_published":"2021-11-26T05:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/a3f656e3-47b3-4c25-be34-0496555a7c7a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12495980,"duration_in_seconds":1561}]},{"id":"b80f1553-a852-48c5-863e-96c53a0efc80","title":"Episode 61: Tradition","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/61","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk discuss tradition in zen. What are those funny sticks that the zen masters have, and what are they used for? \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nShippei\nJundo on the Secular Buddhist Podcast\nThe Zen Master's Dance\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk discuss tradition in zen. What are those funny sticks that the zen masters have, and what are they used for?

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk discuss tradition in zen. What are those funny sticks that the zen masters have, and what are they used for? \r\n","date_published":"2021-11-12T05:45:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/b80f1553-a852-48c5-863e-96c53a0efc80.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12768699,"duration_in_seconds":1596}]},{"id":"1317077c-da82-4d51-be3e-4a6c6c8524be","title":"Episode 60: Animals","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/60","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk examine whether Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals deserves a critical reappraisal. And they talk about animals, sentience, and eating meat (or not).\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nRationale for not Eating Meat in Buddhism (Treeleaf forum)\nSteven Heine: Like Cats and Dogs: Contesting the Mu Koan in Zen Buddhism\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk examine whether Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals deserves a critical reappraisal. And they talk about animals, sentience, and eating meat (or not).

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk examine whether Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals deserves a critical reappraisal. And they talk about animals, sentience, and eating meat (or not).\r\n","date_published":"2021-10-29T05:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/1317077c-da82-4d51-be3e-4a6c6c8524be.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":14166145,"duration_in_seconds":1770}]},{"id":"e092321a-9e31-4d0c-873b-0159f1a784b1","title":"Episode 59: Goldilocks is the Buddha","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/59","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk discuss how moderation is enlightenment, and how Goldilocks is the Buddha. Sort of. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nEpisode 58: In the Moment\nThe Goldilocks principle\nSoryo (僧侶)\nGolden, B.C., woman nearly hit by meteorite in her own home\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk discuss how moderation is enlightenment, and how Goldilocks is the Buddha. Sort of.

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk discuss how moderation is enlightenment, and how Goldilocks is the Buddha. Sort of. \r\n","date_published":"2021-10-15T05:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/e092321a-9e31-4d0c-873b-0159f1a784b1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13233051,"duration_in_seconds":1654}]},{"id":"ebb37d56-c9fd-421e-9816-7651d99af014","title":"Episode 58: In the Moment","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/58","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk discuss living in the moment, and how, at times, you can be too much in the moment.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nTreeleaf Forum: Being Moderate On \"Being In The Moment\"\nGreat Fool: Zen Master Ryōkan; Poems, Letters, and Other Writings\nKshana\nChronon\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk discuss living in the moment, and how, at times, you can be too much in the moment.

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk discuss living in the moment, and how, at times, you can be too much in the moment.\r\n","date_published":"2021-09-30T00:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/ebb37d56-c9fd-421e-9816-7651d99af014.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12914148,"duration_in_seconds":1614}]},{"id":"5ab6adbb-64a8-4f4e-90b3-11e95a161f94","title":"Episode 57: Mistakes","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/57","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk discuss mistakes, and end up making a podcast episode full of mistakes.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nTed Lasso\nSuccession\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk discuss mistakes, and end up making a podcast episode full of mistakes.

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk discuss mistakes, and end up making a podcast episode full of mistakes.\r\n","date_published":"2021-09-03T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/5ab6adbb-64a8-4f4e-90b3-11e95a161f94.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13480483,"duration_in_seconds":1685}]},{"id":"2d46446e-d832-4e72-a27b-1dc3f5a7b46b","title":"Episode 56: What is Zen?","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/56","content_text":"How had Jundo and Kirk never addressed this, the most basic of questions? And it's not a trick question.\n\n\"Once you are on the cushion, it is Buddha's butt on the cushion.\"\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nZen (Wikipedia)\nZencastr\nShikantaza: The Non-Benefits of Zazen\nThe Zen Master's Dance\nRealizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

How had Jundo and Kirk never addressed this, the most basic of questions? And it's not a trick question.

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"Once you are on the cushion, it is Buddha's butt on the cushion."

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","summary":"How had Jundo and Kirk never addressed this, the most basic of questions? And it's not a trick question.\r\n\r\n\"Once you are on the cushion, it is Buddha's butt on the cushion.\"","date_published":"2021-08-20T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/2d46446e-d832-4e72-a27b-1dc3f5a7b46b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13136712,"duration_in_seconds":1642}]},{"id":"fcecc888-893e-4a39-ab98-0139f4499b5a","title":"Episode 55: Hermits","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/55","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk talk about zen hermits, and life in a small zen temple.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nAmongst White Clouds (film)\nRoad to Heaven (book)\nSeek Nothing, Just Sit\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk talk about zen hermits, and life in a small zen temple.

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk talk about zen hermits, and life in a small zen temple.\r\n","date_published":"2021-08-06T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/fcecc888-893e-4a39-ab98-0139f4499b5a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13830315,"duration_in_seconds":1728}]},{"id":"3f68bcf0-fda8-4e7f-8fbf-6f88a38581d4","title":"Episode 54: Heat","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/54","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk discuss Heat, Steely Dan, and The Olympics. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nThe Next Track\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk discuss Heat, Steely Dan, and The Olympics.

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk discuss Heat, Steely Dan, and The Olympics. \r\n","date_published":"2021-07-23T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/3f68bcf0-fda8-4e7f-8fbf-6f88a38581d4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12428271,"duration_in_seconds":1553}]},{"id":"34afdd52-9997-437e-9ae8-3936f266cd6d","title":"Episode 53: Sin City","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/53","content_text":"Jundo visited Las Vegas. Many things happened. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nHotel California\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo visited Las Vegas. Many things happened.

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","summary":"Jundo visited Las Vegas. Many things happened. \r\n","date_published":"2021-07-09T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/34afdd52-9997-437e-9ae8-3936f266cd6d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13073391,"duration_in_seconds":1634}]},{"id":"c47269e7-c663-4e42-b2a9-4c65bcf540c0","title":"Episode 52: Travel","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/52","content_text":"Is the boat moving, or is the land moving?\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nCover of manga about Dogen in the boat\nHokie\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Is the boat moving, or is the land moving?

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","summary":"Is the boat moving, or is the land moving?","date_published":"2021-05-28T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/c47269e7-c663-4e42-b2a9-4c65bcf540c0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25306209,"duration_in_seconds":1581}]},{"id":"49d956ce-65a3-445c-844a-8bfe909f645a","title":"Episode 51: Joy","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/51","content_text":"Joy isn't the same as happiness. Joy is \"truly being passionate about how beautiful this life is, about how we feel each day...\"\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nEpisode 32: Happiness\nWheel of Time\nBernie Glassman (photo with his clown nose)\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Joy isn't the same as happiness. Joy is "truly being passionate about how beautiful this life is, about how we feel each day..."

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","summary":"Joy isn't the same as happiness. Joy is \"truly being passionate about how beautiful this life is, about how we feel each day...\"\r\n","date_published":"2021-05-14T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/49d956ce-65a3-445c-844a-8bfe909f645a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25618421,"duration_in_seconds":1601}]},{"id":"678a9ed3-4133-4beb-a1c9-18d331e0483f","title":"Episode 50: Disappointment","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/50","content_text":"If you don't expect much, then you're never disappointed. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nThe Doors: L. A. Woman\nDukkha\nCarvel\nThe Marvelous Mrs Maisel\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

If you don't expect much, then you're never disappointed.

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","summary":"If you don't expect much, then you're never disappointed. \r\n","date_published":"2021-04-30T05:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/678a9ed3-4133-4beb-a1c9-18d331e0483f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25303307,"duration_in_seconds":1581}]},{"id":"04c494ac-350f-459d-9c99-50345e7a9691","title":"Episode 49: The Environment","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/49","content_text":"What's zen about protecting the environment? \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nFukushima: Japan announces it will dump contaminated water into sea\nThe Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident: An overview (UN report)\nJapan sees earliest cherry blossoms on record as climate warms\nMysterious Plumes of Methane Gas Appear Over Bangladesh\nThe Buddha’s Footprint - An Environmental History of Asia\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

What's zen about protecting the environment?

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","summary":"What's zen about protecting the environment? \r\n","date_published":"2021-04-16T04:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/04c494ac-350f-459d-9c99-50345e7a9691.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":29703574,"duration_in_seconds":1856}]},{"id":"262f534a-ad81-42d1-a3a1-38a280fd578e","title":"Episode 48: Fixing","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/48","content_text":"The world needs fixing, and zen practitioners vow to fix it. But can we? And can we get dharma insurance?\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nBodhicitta (Wikipedia)\nHow to Say Bodhicitta (YouTube)\nCultivating the Empty Field\nMost plastic will never be recycled – and the manufacturers couldn’t care less (The Guardian)\nCRISPR (Wikipedia)\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

The world needs fixing, and zen practitioners vow to fix it. But can we? And can we get dharma insurance?

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","summary":"The world needs fixing, and zen practitioners vow to fix it. But can we? And can we get dharma insurance?\r\n","date_published":"2021-04-02T04:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/262f534a-ad81-42d1-a3a1-38a280fd578e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26058129,"duration_in_seconds":1628}]},{"id":"9ad43e4b-bd09-4892-97c9-d4d108b97eab","title":"Episode 47: Spring","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/47","content_text":"Spring is here, with the annual cycle of renewal. And sumo wrestling. And baseball. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nJundo's book, The Zen Master's Dance: A Guide to Understanding Dōgen and Who You Are in the Universe\nMatsuo Bashô: Frog Haiku (30 translations)\nThe History of Sumo in Religion\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Spring is here, with the annual cycle of renewal. And sumo wrestling. And baseball.

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","summary":"Spring is here, with the annual cycle of renewal. And sumo wrestling. And baseball. \r\n","date_published":"2021-03-19T04:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/9ad43e4b-bd09-4892-97c9-d4d108b97eab.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":23866337,"duration_in_seconds":1491}]},{"id":"46d8f868-c2b2-4078-a00e-f5ed4674ea01","title":"Episode 46: Mnmlsm","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/46","content_text":"Stuff and minimalism. Tiny homes and hoarders. Japanese apartments and British farmhouses. Paper walls. Space. Time. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nJundo's book, The Zen Master's Dance: A Guide to Understanding Dōgen and Who You Are in the Universe\nTiny Homes (Treeleaf forum)\nPeek Inside Tokyo Apartments\nTiny House Nation (Netflix)\nGeorge Carlin: Stuff\nMarie Kondo tchotchkes\nHoarders (Netflix)\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Stuff and minimalism. Tiny homes and hoarders. Japanese apartments and British farmhouses. Paper walls. Space. Time.

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","summary":"Stuff and minimalism. Tiny homes and hoarders. Japanese apartments and British farmhouses. Paper walls. Space. Time. \r\n","date_published":"2021-03-05T05:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/46d8f868-c2b2-4078-a00e-f5ed4674ea01.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26142960,"duration_in_seconds":1633}]},{"id":"5ff177eb-3e22-4fcb-b507-e9492f293e68","title":"Episode 45: Vaccines & Science","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/45","content_text":"As Kirk is about to get his first covid vaccination, Jundo and Kirk discuss the wonders of science, and talk about the Buddha's doctor Jivaka. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nJundo's book, The Zen Master's Dance: A Guide to Understanding Dōgen and Who You Are in the Universe\nJīvaka (Wikipedia)\nCOVAX\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

As Kirk is about to get his first covid vaccination, Jundo and Kirk discuss the wonders of science, and talk about the Buddha's doctor Jivaka.

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","summary":"As Kirk is about to get his first covid vaccination, Jundo and Kirk discuss the wonders of science, and talk about the Buddha's doctor Jivaka. \r\n","date_published":"2021-02-19T05:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/5ff177eb-3e22-4fcb-b507-e9492f293e68.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27383481,"duration_in_seconds":1711}]},{"id":"25452d4a-8b79-448a-8850-7f6ff189a115","title":"Episode 44: Binging & Moderation","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/44","content_text":"How do we control our habits in eating Oreos, watching TV series, and more? How do we watch Game of Thrones as zen practitioners? Is it okay to binge all the Star Wars movies? \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nJundo's book, The Zen Master's Dance: A Guide to Understanding Dōgen and Who You Are in the Universe\nGiri/Haji\nThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel\nGame of Thrones\nSchitt's Creek\nThe Queen's Gambit\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

How do we control our habits in eating Oreos, watching TV series, and more? How do we watch Game of Thrones as zen practitioners? Is it okay to binge all the Star Wars movies?

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","summary":"How do we control our habits in eating Oreos, watching TV series, and more? How do we watch Game of Thrones as zen practitioners? Is it okay to binge all the Star Wars movies? \r\n","date_published":"2021-02-05T05:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/25452d4a-8b79-448a-8850-7f6ff189a115.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":23810749,"duration_in_seconds":1488}]},{"id":"5537734d-20d7-4604-8153-7d39792756f4","title":"Episode 43: Instructions for the Cook","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/43","content_text":"The tenzo manages food in Zen monasteries: he is the head chef, the person responsible for ensuring that monks are fed. One of Dogen's most approachable texts is the Tenzo Kyokun, Instructions for the Cook, where he discusses not just cooking soup, but cooking all of life.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nJundo's book, The Zen Master's Dance: A Guide to Understanding Dōgen and Who You Are in the Universe\nHow to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment, translation of Tenzo Kyokun with commentary by Kosho Uchiyama.\nA series of old video talks by Jundo Cohen on Instructions for the Cook\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

The tenzo manages food in Zen monasteries: he is the head chef, the person responsible for ensuring that monks are fed. One of Dogen's most approachable texts is the Tenzo Kyokun, Instructions for the Cook, where he discusses not just cooking soup, but cooking all of life.

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","summary":"The tenzo manages food in Zen monasteries: he is the head chef, the person responsible for ensuring that monks are fed. One of Dogen's most approachable texts is the Tenzo Kyokun, Instructions for the Cook, where he discusses not just cooking soup, but cooking all of life.\r\n","date_published":"2021-01-22T05:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/5537734d-20d7-4604-8153-7d39792756f4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":23592576,"duration_in_seconds":1474}]},{"id":"0a5f1bbe-aade-4934-9ffb-fd092f9e6a4b","title":"Episode 42: Ego","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/42","content_text":"The ego can be big or small, solid or permeable. Is the \"ego\" the \"self,\" and when is ours too big?\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nThe Zen Master's Dance, Jundo's book\nKosho Uchiyama: Opening the Hand of Thought\nShunryū Suzuki\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

The ego can be big or small, solid or permeable. Is the "ego" the "self," and when is ours too big?

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","summary":"The ego can be big or small, solid or permeable. Is the \"ego\" the \"self,\" and when is ours too big?\r\n","date_published":"2021-01-08T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/0a5f1bbe-aade-4934-9ffb-fd092f9e6a4b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25156178,"duration_in_seconds":1572}]},{"id":"cb26a065-e1af-4cf5-8876-d3d4a51301ac","title":"Episode 41: Miracles","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/41","content_text":"Miracles are everywhere, in the tiniest blade of grass, in the noisiest sneeze, in the simplest loaf of bread.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nThe Zen Master's Dance, Jundo's book\nThe Goldilocks Zone (Wikipedia)\nHelios (Wikipedia)\nThe Miracle of Mindfulness, by Thich Nhat Hahn\nLou Tannen's\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Miracles are everywhere, in the tiniest blade of grass, in the noisiest sneeze, in the simplest loaf of bread.

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","summary":"Miracles are everywhere, in the tiniest blade of grass, in the noisiest sneeze, in the simplest loaf of bread.\r\n","date_published":"2020-12-25T05:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/cb26a065-e1af-4cf5-8876-d3d4a51301ac.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":61746071,"duration_in_seconds":1543}]},{"id":"0aa39562-20ef-48f7-b26b-3cfa7fb62f58","title":"Episode 40: Change","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/40","content_text":"\"Nothing is still, everything is constantly in motion,\" says Jundo, as we discuss the one constant in the universe: change.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nEpisode 14: What Is the Sound of One Kōan Clapping?\nThe kōan mentioned is Dasui’s Aeonic Fire\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

"Nothing is still, everything is constantly in motion," says Jundo, as we discuss the one constant in the universe: change.

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","summary":"\"Nothing is still, everything is constantly in motion,\" says Jundo, as we discuss the one constant in the universe: change.\r\n","date_published":"2020-12-11T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/0aa39562-20ef-48f7-b26b-3cfa7fb62f58.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":24269554,"duration_in_seconds":1516}]},{"id":"640a8c69-9520-41bf-8dc1-e2cabb66bc7e","title":"Episode 39: Nature","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/39","content_text":"It can be good to get out in nature, even to do naked forest bathing. Jundo and Kirk discuss how nature is important to Zen.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nWriters retreat: seven authors on their outdoor escapes from lockdown\nBuddha nature (Wikipedia)\nEpisode 24: Walking\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

It can be good to get out in nature, even to do naked forest bathing. Jundo and Kirk discuss how nature is important to Zen.

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","summary":"It can be good to get out in nature, even to do naked forest bathing. Jundo and Kirk discuss how nature is important to Zen.\r\n","date_published":"2020-11-27T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/640a8c69-9520-41bf-8dc1-e2cabb66bc7e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":21514367,"duration_in_seconds":1344}]},{"id":"ef282e2d-8a98-4cc0-8aad-4cc40ae44699","title":"Episode 38: Reconciliation","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/38","content_text":"After the results of the presidential election in the United States, Jundo and Kirk talk about reconciliation. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nGeorge Lakoff on \"your brain on Trump\"\nSwastika (Wikipedia)\nEpisode 36: A Zen Guide to Elections\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

After the results of the presidential election in the United States, Jundo and Kirk talk about reconciliation.

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","summary":"After the results of the presidential election in the United States, Jundo and Kirk talk about reconciliation. \r\n","date_published":"2020-11-13T05:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/ef282e2d-8a98-4cc0-8aad-4cc40ae44699.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":62760826,"duration_in_seconds":1569}]},{"id":"496d3f43-31fb-4c25-a719-e096e42b38d8","title":"Episode 37: The Zen Master's Dance","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/37","content_text":"Jundo has a new book out: The Zen Master's Dance, A Guide to Understanding Dogen and Who You Are in the Universe. He and Kirk discuss Dogen, the book, and how to dance. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nThe Zen Master's Dance\nDōgen\nCaodong school\nHuineng\nJohn Coltrane: My Favorite Things\nLotus Sutra\nStupa\nEpisode 13: Meditation Is Easy\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo has a new book out: The Zen Master's Dance, A Guide to Understanding Dogen and Who You Are in the Universe. He and Kirk discuss Dogen, the book, and how to dance.

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","summary":"Jundo has a new book out: The Zen Master's Dance, A Guide to Understanding Dogen and Who You Are in the Universe. He and Kirk discuss Dogen, the book, and how to dance. \r\n","date_published":"2020-10-30T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/496d3f43-31fb-4c25-a719-e096e42b38d8.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":57801740,"duration_in_seconds":1445}]},{"id":"e773ff99-da6e-4d0b-8a58-00c695c34d9b","title":"Episode 36: A Zen Guide to Elections","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/36","content_text":"Without endorsing any particular candidate, Kirk and Jundo talk about how Buddhist values and Precepts should guide the voter in elections in the U.S. and other countries. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nVote\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Without endorsing any particular candidate, Kirk and Jundo talk about how Buddhist values and Precepts should guide the voter in elections in the U.S. and other countries.

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","summary":"Without endorsing any particular candidate, Kirk and Jundo talk about how Buddhist values and Precepts should guide the voter in elections in the U.S. and other countries. ","date_published":"2020-10-16T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/e773ff99-da6e-4d0b-8a58-00c695c34d9b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":10674752,"duration_in_seconds":1334}]},{"id":"31652aca-4692-4851-b5c9-553ca1a1a4b1","title":"Episode 35: Karma","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/35","content_text":"Good karma, bad karma, everyone knows about karma, right? Jundo and Kirk discuss what karma means, and how you count your karma points. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nKarma (Wikipedia)\nThe Sopranos\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Good karma, bad karma, everyone knows about karma, right? Jundo and Kirk discuss what karma means, and how you count your karma points.

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","summary":"Good karma, bad karma, everyone knows about karma, right? Jundo and Kirk discuss what karma means, and how you count your karma points. \r\n","date_published":"2020-10-02T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/31652aca-4692-4851-b5c9-553ca1a1a4b1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12507137,"duration_in_seconds":1562}]},{"id":"dcc27add-3674-42f9-ae48-075fbb8b3ff1","title":"Episode 34: How an Online Sangha Works","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/34","content_text":"Treeleaf is an online sangha, and has been around since 2006. How does a sangha work when members don't meet each other physically?\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nNyoi (Wikipedia)\nSluggard waker (Wikipedia)\nKeisaku (Wikipedia)\nHossu (Wikipedia)\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Treeleaf is an online sangha, and has been around since 2006. How does a sangha work when members don't meet each other physically?

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","summary":"Treeleaf is an online sangha, and has been around since 2006. How does a sangha work when members don't meet each other physically?\r\n","date_published":"2020-09-18T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/dcc27add-3674-42f9-ae48-075fbb8b3ff1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13100012,"duration_in_seconds":1636}]},{"id":"42020e5f-538a-4727-b908-a1745984be66","title":"Episode 33: Competition","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/33","content_text":"Is zen competitive? Is competition a bad thing?\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nTour de France\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Is zen competitive? Is competition a bad thing?

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","summary":"Is zen competitive? Is competition a bad thing?\r\n","date_published":"2020-09-04T07:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/42020e5f-538a-4727-b908-a1745984be66.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11524724,"duration_in_seconds":1440}]},{"id":"64886f3c-fc40-4063-93ee-49a2cb2efa5e","title":"Episode 32: Happiness","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/32","content_text":"Can zen make you happy? Should it? \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nThe Origins of the Pursuit of Happiness\nNo Stupid Questions: Are You a Maximizer or a Satisficer?\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Can zen make you happy? Should it?

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","summary":"Can zen make you happy? Should it? \r\n","date_published":"2020-08-21T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/64886f3c-fc40-4063-93ee-49a2cb2efa5e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13613812,"duration_in_seconds":1701}]},{"id":"f56dd48f-a0bc-479c-b6f9-2c59a9e998d4","title":"Episode 31: The Precepts","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/31","content_text":"There are a number of precepts that have to be followed by Zen practitioners. Jundo and Kirk discuss these precepts, and how strict they are. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nThe Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts\nWhat is the Rakusu?\nIsaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

There are a number of precepts that have to be followed by Zen practitioners. Jundo and Kirk discuss these precepts, and how strict they are.

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","summary":"There are a number of precepts that have to be followed by Zen practitioners. Jundo and Kirk discuss these precepts, and how strict they are. \r\n","date_published":"2020-08-07T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/f56dd48f-a0bc-479c-b6f9-2c59a9e998d4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13931542,"duration_in_seconds":1740}]},{"id":"b285a8ff-d5a8-49eb-b421-1b20e0bca1c8","title":"Episode 30: Rituals","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/30","content_text":"There are a lot of rituals in Zen. Where do they come from? Why are they still performed? And what's the thing about the number 108? \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\n108 (Wikipedia)\nMala (Wikipedia)\nHeart Sutra (Wikipedia)\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

There are a lot of rituals in Zen. Where do they come from? Why are they still performed? And what's the thing about the number 108?

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","summary":"There are a lot of rituals in Zen. Where do they come from? Why are they still performed? And what's the thing about the number 108? ","date_published":"2020-07-24T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/b285a8ff-d5a8-49eb-b421-1b20e0bca1c8.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13331770,"duration_in_seconds":1665}]},{"id":"2b64c0bf-f070-45d5-b8c8-4b5e4860800e","title":"Episode 29: Zensex","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/29","content_text":"Many Zen priests in Japanese Buddhism have active sex lives, others are celibate. We discuss how Buddhism treats sex, and how it makes the world go around. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nBuddhism and sexuality (Wikipedia)\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Many Zen priests in Japanese Buddhism have active sex lives, others are celibate. We discuss how Buddhism treats sex, and how it makes the world go around.

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","summary":"Many Zen priests in Japanese Buddhism have active sex lives, others are celibate. We discuss how Buddhism treats sex, and how it makes the world go around. \r\n","date_published":"2020-07-10T06:15:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/2b64c0bf-f070-45d5-b8c8-4b5e4860800e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12642138,"duration_in_seconds":1579}]},{"id":"99af74f0-1d8e-4036-adb5-caf95fa75ea8","title":"Episode 28: Our Team","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/28","content_text":"Jundo explains the importance of lineage in Zen, how the teachings have been handed down over the centuries from Zen teachers to students, in an unbroken chain. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nZazenkai Sunday June 21st with Writer-Zen Historian Barbara O'Brien\nEpisode 14: What Is the Sound of One Kōan Clapping?\nZensabō\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo explains the importance of lineage in Zen, how the teachings have been handed down over the centuries from Zen teachers to students, in an unbroken chain.

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","summary":"Jundo explains the importance of lineage in Zen, how the teachings have been handed down over the centuries from Zen teachers to students, in an unbroken chain. ","date_published":"2020-06-26T07:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/99af74f0-1d8e-4036-adb5-caf95fa75ea8.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12906036,"duration_in_seconds":1613}]},{"id":"5c745d12-e6ab-491a-b36f-5ce922e1cc45","title":"Episode 27: For Justice & Peace","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/27","content_text":"In this time of protests around the world, we discuss how Zen approaches injustice and protest.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nFor Justice & Peace\nSocially DIS-engaged Buddhism\nMetta (Loving Kindness) for All in Social Unrest\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

In this time of protests around the world, we discuss how Zen approaches injustice and protest.

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","summary":"In this time of protests around the world, we discuss how Zen approaches injustice and protest.","date_published":"2020-06-12T06:45:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/5c745d12-e6ab-491a-b36f-5ce922e1cc45.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13204032,"duration_in_seconds":1650}]},{"id":"153afa6e-1b5c-477a-9e47-9f1205a81f19","title":"Episode 26: Zen Books","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/26","content_text":"\"Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures, not depending on words and letters.\" With that in mind, Jundo and Kirk discuss Zen books: how to read them, what to read, and when to burn them. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nBodhidharma (Wikipedia)\nZen Mind, Beginner's Mind\nZen Flesh, Zen Bones\nBuddhism For Dummies\nSimple Guide to Zen Buddhism\nWhat Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind\nThe Circle of the Way\nThe Three Pillars of Zen\nOpening the Hand of Thought\nHow to Cook Your Life\nThe Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo\nRealizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

"Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures, not depending on words and letters." With that in mind, Jundo and Kirk discuss Zen books: how to read them, what to read, and when to burn them.

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","summary":"\"Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures, not depending on words and letters.\" With that in mind, Jundo and Kirk discuss Zen books: how to read them, what to read, and when to burn them. \r\n","date_published":"2020-05-29T05:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/153afa6e-1b5c-477a-9e47-9f1205a81f19.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13529256,"duration_in_seconds":1690}]},{"id":"b9726015-ac71-49c1-bdd8-e6a645b4fb92","title":"Episode 25: Sitting with Pain","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/25","content_text":"Sitting meditation can be painful for a lot of people. Jundo and Kirk discuss how to sit without pain, or how to accept the pain when sitting. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nAlexander Technique\nMahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra\nPhantom limb syndrome\nSeiza bench \nInvisibilia: For Some Teens With Debilitating Pain, The Treatment Is More Pain\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Sitting meditation can be painful for a lot of people. Jundo and Kirk discuss how to sit without pain, or how to accept the pain when sitting.

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","summary":"Sitting meditation can be painful for a lot of people. Jundo and Kirk discuss how to sit without pain, or how to accept the pain when sitting. ","date_published":"2020-05-15T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/b9726015-ac71-49c1-bdd8-e6a645b4fb92.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12630226,"duration_in_seconds":1578}]},{"id":"eefed67b-4b66-4f65-9109-df85ca504b1b","title":"Episode 24: Walking","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/24","content_text":"Walking can free your mind, but can also be an act of meditation. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nMount Tsukuba\nKinhin: The Dignity of the Buddha\nAlexander Technique\nPhoto: Tea Tray Ensō\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Walking can free your mind, but can also be an act of meditation.

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","summary":"Walking can free your mind, but can also be an act of meditation. \r\n","date_published":"2020-05-01T09:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/eefed67b-4b66-4f65-9109-df85ca504b1b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13178119,"duration_in_seconds":1647}]},{"id":"35bc7c24-20d7-4a46-8bf4-19aeb8bef055","title":"Episode 23: Silence","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/23","content_text":"Is zen all about silence?\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nJohn Cage's 4′33″\nSuzuki Roshi's talk on the difference between \"sound\" and \"noise\"\nIsolation tank\nCorrection: Jundo meant a blue jay; listen here\nInto Great Silence\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Is zen all about silence?

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","summary":"Is zen all about silence?\r\n","date_published":"2020-04-17T07:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/35bc7c24-20d7-4a46-8bf4-19aeb8bef055.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12986954,"duration_in_seconds":1622}]},{"id":"2aa80c10-875d-48f9-81f1-bd73e09f7908","title":"Episode 22: Hope","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/22","content_text":"In these times, we need hope. Jundo and Kirk discuss how we can cultivate hope. And we learn that the name for the Zen of Everything podcast in Japanese would be Zen no Zen. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nAbbott & Costello Who's On First\nCast Away\nViktor Frankl (Wikipedia)\nMedicine Buddha (Wikipedia)\nJizo (Wikipedia)\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

In these times, we need hope. Jundo and Kirk discuss how we can cultivate hope. And we learn that the name for the Zen of Everything podcast in Japanese would be Zen no Zen.

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","summary":"In these times, we need hope. Jundo and Kirk discuss how we can cultivate hope. And we learn that the name for the Zen of Everything podcast in Japanese would be Zen no Zen. \r\n","date_published":"2020-04-03T08:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/2aa80c10-875d-48f9-81f1-bd73e09f7908.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12326996,"duration_in_seconds":1540}]},{"id":"d7c62e17-4a2c-4de4-955e-f0608a34302f","title":"Episode 21: Zen in Quarantine","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/21","content_text":"With many people going into quarantine, Jundo and Kirk discuss how this time can be beneficial, and how washing your hands can be the act of a Boddhisatva. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nMaster Dogen's Instructions for Washing the Hands\nTonglen (Wikipedia)\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

With many people going into quarantine, Jundo and Kirk discuss how this time can be beneficial, and how washing your hands can be the act of a Boddhisatva.

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","summary":"With many people going into quarantine, Jundo and Kirk discuss how this time can be beneficial, and how washing your hands can be the act of a Boddhisatva. ","date_published":"2020-03-20T07:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/d7c62e17-4a2c-4de4-955e-f0608a34302f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11191819,"duration_in_seconds":1398}]},{"id":"00780dff-0a78-4b3e-9abe-046a505eef02","title":"Episode 20: Zen in the Time of Coronavirus","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/20","content_text":"With a potential pandemic looming, Jundo and Kirk talk about rumors, unreasonable and reasonable fear, plagues of the past and today, and a good Zen attitude to sickness and death.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nCoronavirus rumors fuel panic buying of toilet paper in Japan\nVatican Insists Pope Francis Only Has a Cold — Not Coronavirus\nShit stick (Wikipedia)\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

With a potential pandemic looming, Jundo and Kirk talk about rumors, unreasonable and reasonable fear, plagues of the past and today, and a good Zen attitude to sickness and death.

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","summary":"With a potential pandemic looming, Jundo and Kirk talk about rumors, unreasonable and reasonable fear, plagues of the past and today, and a good Zen attitude to sickness and death.","date_published":"2020-03-07T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/00780dff-0a78-4b3e-9abe-046a505eef02.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13110670,"duration_in_seconds":1638}]},{"id":"246a53e3-c659-41c2-b34a-2e17a894717c","title":"Episode 19: Original Buddhism, Changing Buddhism","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/19","content_text":"What is \"original Buddhism?\" In the absence of texts from the Buddha's times, how can we know what the Buddha really taught? And how does the corpus of later texts help us understand Buddhism? \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nPale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World\nStephen Batchelor\nThe Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World\nBuddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

What is "original Buddhism?" In the absence of texts from the Buddha's times, how can we know what the Buddha really taught? And how does the corpus of later texts help us understand Buddhism?

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","summary":"What is \"original Buddhism?\" In the absence of texts from the Buddha's times, how can we know what the Buddha really taught? And how does the corpus of later texts help us understand Buddhism? \r\n","date_published":"2020-02-21T07:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/246a53e3-c659-41c2-b34a-2e17a894717c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12514451,"duration_in_seconds":1563}]},{"id":"93c97076-9066-4749-b35b-f89bd8596455","title":"Episode 18: The Zen of Kids","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/18","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk talk about zen and parenting. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nBiography of Gautama Buddha (Wikipedia)\nDr. Seuss books\nWinnie the Pooh\nThe Giving Tree\nStone Soup\nZen Shorts\nPuppy Mind\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk talk about zen and parenting.

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk talk about zen and parenting. ","date_published":"2020-02-07T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/93c97076-9066-4749-b35b-f89bd8596455.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13882850,"duration_in_seconds":1734}]},{"id":"9ca251fc-5ba0-4f9c-86a6-cf1e4da7d258","title":"Episode 17: Is Zen Hard or Easy? ","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/17","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk discuss \"hard\" and \"easy\" zen. Has zen become too easy? Is it too hard? You are New York all along. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nJunici Saga: Memories of Silk and Straw\nThe Next Track podcast\nHonkyoku\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk discuss "hard" and "easy" zen. Has zen become too easy? Is it too hard? You are New York all along.

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk discuss \"hard\" and \"easy\" zen. Has zen become too easy? Is it too hard? You are New York all along. \r\n","date_published":"2020-01-24T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/9ca251fc-5ba0-4f9c-86a6-cf1e4da7d258.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13315052,"duration_in_seconds":1663}]},{"id":"7fcca738-e87b-440c-a0f7-64032cce368d","title":"Episode 16: War - What Is it Good For? ","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/16","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk talk about zen and war. How should zen practitioners act when faced with war? How can we prevent war? \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nBrian Daizen Victoria: Zen at War\n“Zen at War” Brian Victoria: Throwing Bombs at Kodo\nEdwin Starr: War (YouTube)\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk talk about zen and war. How should zen practitioners act when faced with war? How can we prevent war?

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk talk about zen and war. How should zen practitioners act when faced with war? How can we prevent war? ","date_published":"2020-01-10T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/7fcca738-e87b-440c-a0f7-64032cce368d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":14853560,"duration_in_seconds":1856}]},{"id":"61842c00-c2f5-4e80-b1a1-4536cb064d13","title":"Episode 15: I'm Dreaming of a Zen Christmas","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/15","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk discuss how Christmas and Zen can find common ground, and discuss their favorite Zen Christmas carols.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nRohatsu - Bodhi Day (Wikipedia)\nJoseph Campbell: The Hero with a Thousand Faces\nSanta Bodhisattva\nYes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (Wikipedia)\nChristmas in Japan\nAllen Ginsberg chanting the Heart Sutra\nKaz Tanahashi's ensos\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk discuss how Christmas and Zen can find common ground, and discuss their favorite Zen Christmas carols.

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk discuss how Christmas and Zen can find common ground, and discuss their favorite Zen Christmas carols.","date_published":"2019-12-27T06:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/61842c00-c2f5-4e80-b1a1-4536cb064d13.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":14367264,"duration_in_seconds":1795}]},{"id":"d38a09d7-c256-4d38-a715-98a2f2f5c61f","title":"Episode 14: What Is the Sound of One Kōan Clapping?","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/14","content_text":"You've probably heard about kōans, those enigmatic zen dialogs that make no sense. Jundo and Kirk discuss the origin and history of kōans, what they mean, how they work, and what the sound of one hand clapping really is. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nKōan (Wikipedia)\nTang dynasty (618–907)\nSong dynasty (960–1297)\nJohn Daido Loori (Wikipedia)\nZen Mind, Beginner's Mind\nZen Flesh, Zen Bones\nDahui Zonggao (Wikipedia)\nHakuin Ekaku (Wikipedia)\nEpisode 11: The Dokusan Room is Kinda Baloney\nZen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice \nThe Blue Cliff Record\nThe Gateless Gate\nThe Book of Equanimity\nThe True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans\nLike Cats and Dogs: Contesting The Mu Koan In Zen Buddhism\nThe Book of Mu: Essential Writings on Zen's Most Important Koan\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

You've probably heard about kōans, those enigmatic zen dialogs that make no sense. Jundo and Kirk discuss the origin and history of kōans, what they mean, how they work, and what the sound of one hand clapping really is.

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","summary":"You've probably heard about kōans, those enigmatic zen dialogs that make no sense. Jundo and Kirk discuss the origin and history of kōans, what they mean, how they work, and what the sound of one hand clapping really is. ","date_published":"2019-12-13T08:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/d38a09d7-c256-4d38-a715-98a2f2f5c61f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13481609,"duration_in_seconds":1684}]},{"id":"da3c5b29-f215-40bc-98e9-4917e7236700","title":"Episode 13: Meditation Is Easy","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/13","content_text":"Is meditation easy? Is it difficult? Jundo and Kirk talk about shikantaza meditation and the importance of intention. And Jundo discuss his patented Insta-Zen technique. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nThe Circle of the Way \nThe Jhanas in Theravada Buddhist Meditation\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Is meditation easy? Is it difficult? Jundo and Kirk talk about shikantaza meditation and the importance of intention. And Jundo discuss his patented Insta-Zen technique.

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","summary":"Is meditation easy? Is it difficult? Jundo and Kirk talk about shikantaza meditation and the importance of intention. And Jundo discuss his patented Insta-Zen technique. ","date_published":"2019-11-29T07:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/da3c5b29-f215-40bc-98e9-4917e7236700.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12248575,"duration_in_seconds":1531}]},{"id":"810a57b3-c1fa-45ad-9904-f705cbb0e3ee","title":"Episode 12: One Is the One","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/12","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk discuss the idea of oneness. The good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly are all facets of the great jewel. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nTransparent eyeball (Wikipedia)\nEmerson and Zen Buddhism\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk discuss the idea of oneness. The good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly are all facets of the great jewel.

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk discuss the idea of oneness. The good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly are all facets of the great jewel. One ain't just one thing ... or one ... or a thing ...","date_published":"2019-11-15T08:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/810a57b3-c1fa-45ad-9904-f705cbb0e3ee.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13285795,"duration_in_seconds":1660}]},{"id":"e66cdd24-5adb-441b-8bce-127a6d221c6a","title":"Episode 11: The Dokusan Room is Kinda Baloney","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/11","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk discuss the Dokusan room, the place where the teacher tests students and students test the teacher. What goes on can be romanticized and overemphasized, misused and misunderstood (especially by modern westerners), yet greatness sometimes happens too. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nPhilip Kapleau: The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment\nBrad Warner: Hardcore Zen\nTeachers checking students (Treeleaf forum thread)\nJack Kornfield: After the Ecstasy, the Laundry\nHonkyoku: Kirk's shakuhachi website\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk discuss the Dokusan room, the place where the teacher tests students and students test the teacher. What goes on can be romanticized and overemphasized, misused and misunderstood (especially by modern westerners), yet greatness sometimes happens too.

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Theme music by Kiku Day.

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk discuss the Dokusan room, the place where the teacher tests students and students test the teacher. What goes on can be romanticized and overemphasized, misused and misunderstood (especially by modern westerners), yet greatness sometimes happens too. ","date_published":"2019-11-01T15:15:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/e66cdd24-5adb-441b-8bce-127a6d221c6a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13967486,"duration_in_seconds":1745}]},{"id":"0495f323-2cb0-4180-962a-a9228789b4e7","title":"Episode 10: Zen in the West and Zen in Japan","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/10","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk discuss differences between the way zen is practiced in the west compared to in Japan.\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nPhilip Kapleau: The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment\nThe Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo\nParis Hilton takes Buddhist monk Shopping\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk discuss differences between the way zen is practiced in the west compared to in Japan.

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk discuss differences between the way zen is practiced in the west compared to in Japan.","date_published":"2019-10-18T08:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/0495f323-2cb0-4180-962a-a9228789b4e7.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":14558481,"duration_in_seconds":1819}]},{"id":"5b0e44ee-4141-4549-b3d7-8993f6da677a","title":"Episode 9: Favorites","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/9","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk talk discuss favorites. What is the best ice cream flavor? What is the best fruit? Do favorites matter? Do appearances matter? \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nWabi-sabi (Wikipedia)\nIntroduction to Agama Sutra: The First Buddhist Scripture (on Wei Nung)\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk talk discuss favorites. What is the best ice cream flavor? What is the best fruit? Do favorites matter? Do appearances matter?

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk talk discuss favorites. What is the best ice cream flavor? What is the best fruit? Do favorites matter? Do appearances matter? ","date_published":"2019-10-04T08:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/5b0e44ee-4141-4549-b3d7-8993f6da677a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13287676,"duration_in_seconds":1660}]},{"id":"46a5454e-b9f8-4eb7-80e1-ad2f5bc647e2","title":"Episode 8: Things Aren't That Bad","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/8","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk talk about how bad or good things are in the world. Things really aren't as bad as they may seem if you watch the news too much. \n\n\nSteven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined\nMalaria vaccine launched in Kenya: Kenya joins Ghana and Malawi to roll out landmark vaccine in pilot introduction\nDieter Rams' Ten principles for good design\nI'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (YouTube)\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk talk about how bad or good things are in the world. Things really aren't as bad as they may seem if you watch the news too much.

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","summary":"Jundo and Kirk talk about how bad or good things are in the world. Things really aren't as bad as they may seem if you watch the news too much. \r\n","date_published":"2019-09-20T07:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/46a5454e-b9f8-4eb7-80e1-ad2f5bc647e2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13664675,"duration_in_seconds":1707}]},{"id":"433886f2-db1f-44f8-b999-1ae114308237","title":"Episode 7: Zen and Religion, Sutra Thumpers, and Mindfulness Meditation","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/7","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk discuss whether you can practice Zen Buddhism if you are a Christian, Jew, Muslim, or believer in another religion. \n\n\nMeditation helped me drag myself out of self-loathing and failure\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk discuss whether you can practice Zen Buddhism if you are a Christian, Jew, Muslim, or believer in another religion.

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Theme music by Kiku Day.

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To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com.

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If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

","summary":"Jundo and Kirk discuss whether you can practice Zen Buddhism if you are a Christian, Jew, Muslim, or believer in another religion. ","date_published":"2019-09-06T08:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/433886f2-db1f-44f8-b999-1ae114308237.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11584232,"duration_in_seconds":1448}]},{"id":"89c4b2f6-242c-4a9c-a1eb-5c6e07ba800f","title":"Episode 6: Do Robots Have Buddha Nature? ","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/6","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk take a look at the zen of the future, discussing whether or not robots are sentient, and whether they have Buddha nature. \n\n\nKannon Bodhisattva robot unveiled at Kyoto temple to share Buddha's religious teachings\nGuanyin (Wikipedia)\nThe hard question (Wikipedia)\nTrolley problem (Wikipedia)\nSusan Blackmore\nIan McEwan: Machines Like Me\nLove in another dimension: Japanese man 'marries' Hatsune Miku hologram\nDoomsday Book (Wikipedia)\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk take a look at the zen of the future, discussing whether or not robots are sentient, and whether they have Buddha nature.

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Theme music by Kiku Day.

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To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com.

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If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

","summary":"Jundo and Kirk take a look at the zen of the future, discussing whether or not robots are sentient, and whether they have Buddha nature. ","date_published":"2019-08-23T07:45:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/89c4b2f6-242c-4a9c-a1eb-5c6e07ba800f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":11943310,"duration_in_seconds":1492}]},{"id":"707f50f8-c014-4d2d-825e-911765e7996f","title":"Episode 5: Shikantaza, Grape Juice, Alzheimer's, Mindfulness, Buddhism as Religion, and a Woman who Feels no Pain","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/5","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk discuss whether shikantaza is meditation, how to get a grape juice stain out of a carpet, how to deal with Alzheimers, how mindfulness is integrating in modern society, whether Buddhism is a religion, and the interesting case of a woman who feels no pain.\n\n\nJust a little reminder: Shikantaza Zazen is --not-- \"Meditating\"\nToddler Destroys Sand Mandala (YouTube)\nMeet The Woman Who Feels No Pain...\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk discuss whether shikantaza is meditation, how to get a grape juice stain out of a carpet, how to deal with Alzheimers, how mindfulness is integrating in modern society, whether Buddhism is a religion, and the interesting case of a woman who feels no pain.

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Theme music by Kiku Day.

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To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com.

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If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

","summary":"Jundo and Kirk discuss whether shikantaza is meditation, how to get a grape juice stain out of a carpet, how to deal with Alzheimers, how mindfulness is integrating in modern society, whether Buddhism is a religion, and the interesting case of a woman who feels no pain.","date_published":"2019-08-09T07:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/707f50f8-c014-4d2d-825e-911765e7996f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12978723,"duration_in_seconds":1622}]},{"id":"74f7c917-0524-4bc2-b194-6d2ddc44a7f7","title":"Episode 4: Good Days, Hot Weather, Ikkyu, Happiness, Politics, Anger, Appliances, and the Ugly Lama","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/4","content_text":"Jundo explains why all days are good days, and Kirk laments the hot weather in Europe. They revisit Ikkyu (\"that old horndog\"), and discuss politics, anger, a dead appliance, and the Ugly Lama. \n\n\nKōdō Sawaki (Wikipedia)\nlKKYU was a DRUNKEN HORNDOG (Facebook)\nDalai Lama 'deeply sorry' for remarks about women\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo explains why all days are good days, and Kirk laments the hot weather in Europe. They revisit Ikkyu ("that old horndog"), and discuss politics, anger, a dead appliance, and the Ugly Lama.

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Theme music by Kiku Day.

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To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com.

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If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

","summary":"Jundo explains why all days are good days, and Kirk laments the hot weather in Europe. They revisit Ikkyu (\"that old horndog\"), and discuss politics, anger, a dead appliance, and the Ugly Lama. ","date_published":"2019-07-26T07:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/74f7c917-0524-4bc2-b194-6d2ddc44a7f7.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13187077,"duration_in_seconds":1648}]},{"id":"c105e413-cb93-48ea-b969-344bfe91e85f","title":"Episode 3: Cars, Drugs, Busses, and Simple Living","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/3","content_text":"Jundo and Kirk discuss what makes a car a car, whether gamblers and criminals should donate money to good causes, how a bus driver can help make the world better, and a book on simple living. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nHe’s Playing His Cards Right\nIkkyū (Wikipedia)\nWelcome to \"Simple Living\" - Chapters 1 and 2\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

Jundo and Kirk discuss what makes a car a car, whether gamblers and criminals should donate money to good causes, how a bus driver can help make the world better, and a book on simple living.

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Theme music by Kiku Day.

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To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com.

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If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

","summary":"Jundo and Kirk discuss what makes a car a car, whether gamblers and criminals should donate money to good causes, how a bus driver can help make the world better, and a book on simple living. ","date_published":"2019-07-12T07:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/c105e413-cb93-48ea-b969-344bfe91e85f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":12555958,"duration_in_seconds":1569}]},{"id":"a1108a3d-9720-4e24-8fd8-d4ca02eb79de","title":"Episode 2: Hot Dogs, Space Aliens, Vegetarians, Glasses, and Sitting Zazen Every Day","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/2","content_text":"All things are impermanent, but this podcast has made it to its second episode. Jundo and Kirk discuss whether a hot dog is a sandwich, explore the question of being a vegetarian, whether one should wear glasses when sitting zazen, and whether one really, truly needs to sit zazen every day. \n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nŚūraṅgama Sūtra (Wikipedia)\nDōgen (Wikipedia)\nMonkfish (Wikipedia)\nZazen: Not Sitting is as Vital as Sitting\nSIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Yes! No! Sometimes! NEVER!\n\n\nTheme music by Kiku Day. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

All things are impermanent, but this podcast has made it to its second episode. Jundo and Kirk discuss whether a hot dog is a sandwich, explore the question of being a vegetarian, whether one should wear glasses when sitting zazen, and whether one really, truly needs to sit zazen every day.

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Theme music by Kiku Day.

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To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com.

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If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

","summary":"All things are impermanent, but this podcast has made it to its second episode. Jundo and Kirk discuss whether a hot dog is a sandwich, explore the question of being a vegetarian, whether one should wear glasses when sitting zazen, and whether one really, truly needs to sit zazen every day. ","date_published":"2019-06-28T07:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/a1108a3d-9720-4e24-8fd8-d4ca02eb79de.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13590198,"duration_in_seconds":1698}]},{"id":"72e2036c-2087-4147-bbc3-816e33c187dc","title":"Episode 1: Cats, Lawyers, Health, Women, and Roshis","url":"https://www.zen-of-everything.com/1","content_text":"For the first episode of The Zen of Everything, we explain why we started this podcast, and what we plan to do. We then explore whether cats are zen masters, discuss Buddhist lawyers, talk about practicing zen with health problems, explore the idea of calling the Buddha a \"she,\" and explain what a roshi is. (Note: if you're just discovering the podcast, we recommend that you skip ahead to episode no. 6 when we find our footing; you can come back to the first five episodes later, but it took us a while to get into the right groove.)\n\n\nTreeleaf Zendo\nThe Soto Zen Buddhist Association\n\n\nThanks to Kiku Day for performing our theme music. \n\nTo submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. \n\nIf you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.","content_html":"

For the first episode of The Zen of Everything, we explain why we started this podcast, and what we plan to do. We then explore whether cats are zen masters, discuss Buddhist lawyers, talk about practicing zen with health problems, explore the idea of calling the Buddha a "she," and explain what a roshi is. (Note: if you're just discovering the podcast, we recommend that you skip ahead to episode no. 6 when we find our footing; you can come back to the first five episodes later, but it took us a while to get into the right groove.)

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Thanks to Kiku Day for performing our theme music.

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To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com.

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If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

","summary":"For the first episode of The Zen of Everything, we explain why we started this podcast, and what we plan to do. We then explore whether cats are zen masters, discuss Buddhist lawyers, talk about practicing zen with health problems, explore the idea of calling the Buddha a \"she,\" and explain what a roshi is. (Note: if you're just discovering the podcast, we recommend that you skip ahead to episode no. 6 when we find our footing; you can come back to the first five episodes later, but it took us a while to get into the right groove.)","date_published":"2019-06-07T15:00:00.000Z","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/37890d70-9d67-4b3d-b227-11054264ec79/72e2036c-2087-4147-bbc3-816e33c187dc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":13828017,"duration_in_seconds":1728}]}]}