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 38: Reconciliation
November 13th, 2020 | 26 mins 9 secs
After the results of the presidential election in the United States, Jundo and Kirk talk about reconciliation.
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Episode 37: The Zen Master's Dance
October 30th, 2020 | 24 mins 5 secs
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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Episode 36: A Zen Guide to Elections
October 16th, 2020 | 22 mins 14 secs
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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Episode 35: Karma
October 2nd, 2020 | 26 mins 2 secs
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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Episode 34: How an Online Sangha Works
September 18th, 2020 | 27 mins 16 secs
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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Episode 33: Competition
September 4th, 2020 | 24 mins
Is zen competitive? Is competition a bad thing?
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Episode 31: The Precepts
August 7th, 2020 | 29 mins
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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Episode 30: Rituals
July 24th, 2020 | 27 mins 45 secs
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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Episode 29: Zensex
July 10th, 2020 | 26 mins 19 secs
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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Episode 28: Our Team
June 26th, 2020 | 26 mins 53 secs
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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Episode 27: For Justice & Peace
June 12th, 2020 | 27 mins 30 secs
In this time of protests around the world, we discuss how Zen approaches injustice and protest.
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Episode 26: Zen Books
May 29th, 2020 | 28 mins 10 secs
"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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Episode 25: Sitting with Pain
May 15th, 2020 | 26 mins 18 secs
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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Episode 24: Walking
May 1st, 2020 | 27 mins 27 secs
Walking can free your mind, but can also be an act of meditation.
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