The Zen of Everything
A zen take on life, love, laughter, and everything else.
About the show
The Zen of Everything presents a zen take on life, love, laughter, and everything else. With Jundo Cohen, a real zen master, and Kirk McElhearn, a guy who knows a bit about zen.
Episodes
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Episode 92: Motivation
January 20th, 2023 | 25 mins 48 secs
How do zen people get motivated? Is sitting zazen a form of procrastination?
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Episode 91: Monastic Life at Home
January 6th, 2023 | 24 mins 11 secs
Should you try to live a monastic life at home? 
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Episode 90: Buddha Basics 12: Equanimiousness
December 23rd, 2022 | 25 mins 24 secs
We discuss why a Zen vacuum cleaner comes with no attachments. We speak passionately about equanimity, and revel in non-attachment.
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Episode 89: Buddha Basics 11: DharmaSangha
December 9th, 2022 | 25 mins 4 secs
In the triumvirate of the three jewels, dharma and sangha are inferior to the Buddha, but are they really?
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Episode 88: Buddha Basics 10: Is Zen (Even) Buddhism
November 25th, 2022 | 24 mins 51 secs
Some people say that Zen isn't really Buddhism. We disagree.
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Episode 87: Buddha Basics 09: The Divine Abodes
November 11th, 2022 | 23 mins 14 secs
We discuss the bramavihara, or four divine abodes, and Jundo chants to bring the moon back.
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Episode 86: Buddha Basics 08: Let's Meet the Paramitas
October 28th, 2022 | 23 mins 35 secs
We discuss the paramitas, or the virtues of a bodhisattva.
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Episode 85: Buddha Basics 07: WhatsaWhosaBodhisattva
October 14th, 2022 | 24 mins 44 secs
We answer the timeless question of, what is, who is a Bodhisattva.
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Episode 84: Buddha Basics 06: Born-Again Buddha
September 30th, 2022 | 25 mins 11 secs
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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Episode 83: Buddha Basics 05: The Octo-Holistic Lifestyle
September 16th, 2022 | 25 mins 8 secs
The eightfold path describes how we should live.
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Episode 82: Buddha Basics 04: Break That Chain!
September 2nd, 2022 | 32 mins 48 secs
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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Episode 81: Buddha Basics 03: No Self, No Problem
August 19th, 2022 | 23 mins 39 secs
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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Buddha Basics 02: Dukkha Sucks
August 5th, 2022 | 24 mins 17 secs
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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Buddha Basics 01: Oodles of Buddhas
July 22nd, 2022 | 27 mins 47 secs
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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Episode 78: Buddhasplaining
July 8th, 2022 | 26 mins 15 secs
We discuss abortion and women's right to choose from a Buddhist perspective.
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Episode 77: The Universe
June 24th, 2022 | 26 mins 2 secs
How big is the universe? How long is time?