The Zen of Everything (Jundo Cohen & Kirk McElhearn)

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Coronavirus rumors fuel panic buying of toilet paper in Japan (https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Coronavirus-rumors-fuel-panic-buying-of-toilet-paper-in-Japan2) Vatican Insists Pope Francis Only Has a Cold — Not Coronavirus (https://time.com/5794364/pope-francis-cold-not-coronavirus/) Shit stick (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_stick) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

How big is the universe? How long is time? Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Edwin A. Abott: Flatland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland) Where Is The Center of the Universe? (https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-04/fyi-where-center-universe/) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk discuss differences between the way zen is practiced in the west compared to in Japan. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Philip Kapleau: The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment (https://amzn.to/2ITlOe3) The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo (https://amzn.to/35JUcBG) Paris Hilton takes Buddhist monk Shopping (http://wisdomquarterly.blogspot.com/2008/09/paris-hilton-takes-buddhist-monk.html) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

What's zen about protecting the environment? Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Fukushima: Japan announces it will dump contaminated water into sea (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/13/fukushima-japan-to-start-dumping-contaminated-water-pacific-ocean) The Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident: An overview (UN report) (http://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/fukushima.html) Japan sees earliest cherry blossoms on record as climate warms (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/31/national/cherry-blossoms-early-climate-change/) Mysterious Plumes of Methane Gas Appear Over Bangladesh (https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/mysterious-plumes-of-methane-gas-appear-over-bangladesh) The Buddha’s Footprint - An Environmental History of Asia (https://amzn.to/32mHPLF) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Do we know anything? Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

The ego can be big or small, solid or permeable. Is the "ego" the "self," and when is ours too big? Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) The Zen Master's Dance, Jundo's book (https://wisdomexperience.org/product/the-zen-masters-dance/) Kosho Uchiyama: Opening the Hand of Thought (https://amzn.to/3hROtR5) Shunryū Suzuki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunryū_Suzuki) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

"Nothing is still, everything is constantly in motion," says Jundo, as we discuss the one constant in the universe: change. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Episode 14: What Is the Sound of One Kōan Clapping? (https://www.zen-of-everything.com/14) The kōan mentioned is Dasui’s Aeonic Fire (https://www.lionsroar.com/destroyed-not-destroyed/) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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). Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Rationale for not Eating Meat in Buddhism (Treeleaf forum) (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?19156-Rationale-for-not-Eating-Meat-in-Buddhism&highlight=meat) Steven Heine: Like Cats and Dogs: Contesting the Mu Koan in Zen Buddhism (https://amzn.to/3jGR16J) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

"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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Bodhidharma (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhidharma) Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (https://amzn.to/36JTaqw) Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (https://amzn.to/2X9anGv) Buddhism For Dummies (https://amzn.to/3ceqx5D) Simple Guide to Zen Buddhism (https://amzn.to/3esBPVs) What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind (https://amzn.to/2Agiich) The Circle of the Way (https://amzn.to/2zDgwlq) The Three Pillars of Zen (https://amzn.to/36JUDNy) Opening the Hand of Thought (https://amzn.to/3dbqOry) How to Cook Your Life (https://amzn.to/2AdFwzC) The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo (https://amzn.to/2AcG7lg) Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo (https://amzn.to/2XB5ntf) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Aren't buddhists supposed to maintain equanimity all the time, not have bad thoughts, not be jealous or angry? Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Vinaya rules about sex (https://en.dhammadana.org/sangha/vinaya/227/13sg.htm) James Austin: Zen and the Brain (https://amzn.to/3QDhqn6) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

The eightfold path describes how we should live. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) The Eightfold Path (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?7718-Buddha-Basics-%28Part-III%29-%C2%97-Eightfold-Path) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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? Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (https://amzn.to/39EQqLg) Stephen Batchelor (https://www.stephenbatchelor.org/index.php/en/) The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World (https://amzn.to/2ud7QQ7) Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism (https://serval.unil.ch/resource/serval:BIB_0AE49B543099.P001/REF.pdf) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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? Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Jundo's book, The Zen Master's Dance: A Guide to Understanding Dōgen and Who You Are in the Universe (https://wisdomexperience.org/product/the-zen-masters-dance/) Giri/Haji (https://www.netflix.com/title/80190519) The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (https://amzn.to/3oNZ8xN) Game of Thrones (https://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones) Schitt's Creek (https://www.netflix.com/title/80036165) The Queen's Gambit (https://www.netflix.com/80234304) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

The world needs fixing, and zen practitioners vow to fix it. But can we? And can we get dharma insurance? Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Bodhicitta (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhicitta) How to Say Bodhicitta (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ION8bgt5Sg) Cultivating the Empty Field (https://amzn.to/3wjK7bV) Most plastic will never be recycled – and the manufacturers couldn’t care less (The Guardian) (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/15/most-plastic-will-never-be-recycled-and-the-manufacturers-couldnt-care-less) CRISPR (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We think thoughts all the time. Why do we have these thoughts, and how do we deal with them? Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Episode 95: Buddha Basics 13: Practice, Practice, Practice (https://www.zen-of-everything.com/95) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Abbott & Costello Who's On First (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-fg) Cast Away (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162222/) Viktor Frankl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl) (Wikipedia) Medicine Buddha (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhaisajyaguru) (Wikipedia) Jizo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kṣitigarbha) (Wikipedia) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We discuss the bramavihara, or four divine abodes, and Jundo chants to bring the moon back. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Bramavihara (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmavihara) Life Is Hard by Kieran Setiya review (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/21/life-is-hard-by-kieran-setiya-review-philosophical-self-help) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Buddhism and sexuality (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_sexuality) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

How had Jundo and Kirk never addressed this, the most basic of questions? And it's not a trick question. "Once you are on the cushion, it is Buddha's butt on the cushion." Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Zen (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen) Zencastr (https://zencastr.com) Shikantaza: The Non-Benefits of Zazen (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?18965-Shikantaza-The-Non-Benefits-of-Zazen) The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3fNBxLW) Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo (https://amzn.to/3AsW0gZ) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

The twelve steps of dependent origination describe how the self is formed, how we perceive the world, and how we grasp and desire things. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Dependent origination (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratītyasamutpāda) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Good karma, bad karma, everyone knows about karma, right? Jundo and Kirk discuss what karma means, and how you count your karma points. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Karma (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma) The Sopranos (https://www.hbo.com/the-sopranos) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo visited Las Vegas. Many things happened. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Hotel California (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vydym4wh9Qo) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Is zen all about silence? Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) John Cage's 4′33″ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4′33″) Suzuki Roshi's talk on the difference between "sound" and "noise" (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?16188-Of-Noise-Ear-Plugs-and-Sensory-Deprivation-Tanks&p=222777&viewfull=1#post222777) Isolation tank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_tank) Correction: Jundo meant a blue jay; listen here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T--LnlE1nE8) Into Great Silence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Great_Silence) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

What's all this stuff about rebirth? Can we really be reborn as the god of the perfect bagel, or as slugs? Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Episode 35: Karma (https://www.zen-of-everything.com/35) Hungry ghosts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_ghost) Gil Fronsdal, Should I Believe in Rebirth? (https://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/books-articles/should-i-believe-in-rebirth/) Pascal's wager (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Even zen monks get the blues sometimes. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Thelonius Monk: Blue Monk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_40V2lcxM7k) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk discuss Heat, Steely Dan, and The Olympics. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) The Next Track (https://www.thenexttrack.com) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Is zen competitive? Is competition a bad thing? Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Tour de France (https://www.letour.fr) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk discuss whether you can practice Zen Buddhism if you are a Christian, Jew, Muslim, or believer in another religion. Meditation helped me drag myself out of self-loathing and failure (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/sep/02/meditation-helped-me-drag-myself-out-of-self-loathing-and-failure) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We have too much stuff. We discuss the CohenJundo method of decluttering. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) - Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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." Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (https://amzn.to/31z0mSK) Malaria vaccine launched in Kenya: Kenya joins Ghana and Malawi to roll out landmark vaccine in pilot introduction (https://www.afro.who.int/news/malaria-vaccine-launched-kenya-kenya-joins-ghana-and-malawi-roll-out-landmark-vaccine-pilot) Dieter Rams' Ten principles for good design (https://www.vitsoe.com/gb/about/good-design) I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlR0KElxxVg) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Stuff and minimalism. Tiny homes and hoarders. Japanese apartments and British farmhouses. Paper walls. Space. Time. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Jundo's book, The Zen Master's Dance: A Guide to Understanding Dōgen and Who You Are in the Universe (https://wisdomexperience.org/product/the-zen-masters-dance/) Tiny Homes (Treeleaf forum) (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?18592-Tiny-Homes&highlight=tiny) Peek Inside Tokyo Apartments (https://www.tokyoweekender.com/2016/10/peek-inside-tokyo-apartments/) Tiny House Nation (Netflix) (https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81016914) George Carlin: Stuff (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac) Marie Kondo tchotchkes (https://shop.konmari.com/collections/wellness) Hoarders (Netflix) (https://www.netflix.com/title/70157400) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We discuss why a Zen vacuum cleaner comes with no attachments. We speak passionately about equanimity, and revel in non-attachment. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Episode 15: I'm Dreaming of a Zen Christmas (https://www.zen-of-everything.com/15) Tsundoku (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku) Historical European new year dates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year#Historical_European_new_year_dates) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) The Zen Master's Dance (https://wisdomexperience.org/product/the-zen-masters-dance) Dōgen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dōgen) Caodong school (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caodong_school) Huineng (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huineng) John Coltrane: My Favorite Things (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG2dsXV5HI) Lotus Sutra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Sutra) Stupa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupa) Episode 13: Meditation Is Easy (https://www.zen-of-everything.com/13) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Joy isn't the same as happiness. Joy is "truly being passionate about how beautiful this life is, about how we feel each day..." Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Episode 32: Happiness (https://www.zen-of-everything.com/32) Wheel of Time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_Time_(film)) Bernie Glassman (photo with his clown nose) (https://www.ramdass.org/honoring-bernie-glassman/) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice (https://amzn.to/44uGlwT) Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment (https://amzn.to/3NI5jls) Shunryu Suzuki: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice (https://amzn.to/43jNwXv) Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings (https://amzn.to/3PMDviM) Philip Kapleau Roshi: The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment (https://amzn.to/3pJNM4m) Shohaku Okumura: Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo (https://amzn.to/3Q2lDk7) Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries (https://amzn.to/44eqS4n) Shohaku Okumura: The Mountains and Waters Sutra: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's "Sansuikyo" (https://amzn.to/44jEITa) Steven Heine: Readings of Dōgen's "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye" (https://amzn.to/44ecjh3) Steven Heine: Dogen: Japan's Original Zen Teacher (https://amzn.to/3rgCe9o) Taigen Dan Leighton: Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dōgen and the Lotus Sutra (https://amzn.to/44czKHH) Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom: Three Fascicles from Shobogenzo with Commentary (https://amzn.to/3XJ4U6X) Kazuaki Tanahashi: Enlightenment Unfolds: the essential teachings of Dogen (https://amzn.to/3PLsazk) Kazuaki Tanahashi: Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen (https://amzn.to/3pzHXXe) Will Johnson: The Posture of Meditation (https://amzn.to/3D2nT2X) Barbara Hoetsu O'Brien: The Circle of the Way - A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World (https://amzn.to/3PIHgWg) Jonathan Landaw & Stephan Bodian: Buddhism For Dummies (https://amzn.to/44wpWYH) Diana St. Ruth: Simple Guide to Zen Buddhism (https://amzn.to/3pFrdhe) Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan, translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi (https://amzn.to/44vv0N8) Kazuaki Tanahashi: The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan (https://amzn.to/46O2DvA) Red Pine: The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain (https://amzn.to/3rgElKm) Norman Fischer & Susan Moon: What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind (https://amzn.to/3JMMn3R) Stephen Batchelor: The Art of Solitude (https://amzn.to/3D2Nx7S) Brian Daizen Victoria: Zen at War (https://amzn.to/3NE5QF1) Suggested BOOKS & MEDIA on Zen Practice (Treeleaf) (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?5711-Suggested-BOOKS-MEDIA-on-Zen-Practice) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Jundo's book, The Zen Master's Dance: A Guide to Understanding Dōgen and Who You Are in the Universe (https://wisdomexperience.org/product/the-zen-masters-dance/) How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment (https://amzn.to/3qzc1gq), translation of Tenzo Kyokun with commentary by Kosho Uchiyama. A series of old video talks (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?12716-Master-Dogen-s-INSTRUCTIONS-FOR-THE-COOK-%28REPOST%29) by Jundo Cohen on Instructions for the Cook Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk discuss mistakes, and end up making a podcast episode full of mistakes. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Ted Lasso (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10986410/) Succession (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7660850/) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk talk discuss favorites. What is the best ice cream flavor? What is the best fruit? Do favorites matter? Do appearances matter? Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Wabi-sabi (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi) Introduction to Agama Sutra: The First Buddhist Scripture (on Wei Nung) (https://aaari.info/notes/02-06-06Tam.pdf) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

In this time of protests around the world, we discuss how Zen approaches injustice and protest. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) For Justice & Peace (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?17840-For-Justice-Peace) Socially DIS-engaged Buddhism (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?17835-Split-Thread-Socially-DIS-engaged-Buddhism) Metta (Loving Kindness) for All in Social Unrest (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?17851-Metta-%28Loving-Kindness%29-for-All-in-Social-Unrest) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Was the Buddha a proto-communist, or did he go with the flow and the status quo? Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) - Karl Marx: Capital (https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Jundo's book, The Zen Master's Dance: A Guide to Understanding Dōgen and Who You Are in the Universe (https://wisdomexperience.org/product/the-zen-masters-dance/) Jīvaka (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jīvaka) COVAX (https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator/covax) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk discuss how Christmas and Zen can find common ground, and discuss their favorite Zen Christmas carols. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Rohatsu - Bodhi Day (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhi_Day) Joseph Campbell: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (https://amzn.to/2ZmvJji) Santa Bodhisattva (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?17441-December-20-21st-Treeleaf-Weekly-Zazenkai-A-Merry-Rohatsu-Happy-New-This-Moment) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_Virginia,_there_is_a_Santa_Claus) Christmas in Japan (https://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/japan.shtml) Allen Ginsberg chanting the Heart Sutra (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAP8KYdtlmQ) Kaz Tanahashi's ensos (https://www.brushmind.net/artwork-1) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Writers retreat: seven authors on their outdoor escapes from lockdown (https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/nov/23/writers-retreat-seven-authors-on-their-outdoor-escapes-from-lockdown) Buddha nature (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha-nature) Episode 24: Walking (https://www.zen-of-everything.com/24) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Can zen make you happy? Should it? Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) The Origins of the Pursuit of Happiness (https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1123&context=law_jurisprudence) No Stupid Questions: Are You a Maximizer or a Satisficer? (https://freakonomics.com/podcast/nsq-maximizer-satisficer/) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

If you don't expect much, then you're never disappointed. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) The Doors: L. A. Woman (https://www.inthestudio.net/online-only-interviews/doors-l-a-woman-50th/) Dukkha (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duḥkha) Carvel (https://www.carvel.com) The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (https://amzn.to/2RavFDi) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Zazen is good for nothing, according to Kodo Sawaki. If so, then why do we sit? Also, ice cream sundaes and Möbius strips. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo (https://amzn.to/3reU8H6) Good for Nothing, interview with Shohaku Okumura (https://tricycle.org/magazine/good-nothing/) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We discuss abortion and women's right to choose from a Buddhist perspective. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Mizuko kuyō (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuko_kuyō) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Just a little reminder: Shikantaza Zazen is --not-- "Meditating" (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?17110-Just-a-little-reminder-Shikantaza-Zazen-is-not-Meditating) Toddler Destroys Sand Mandala (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj2dA_ncPg4) Meet The Woman Who Feels No Pain... (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?17095-Meet-The-Woman-Who-Feels-No-Pain) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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? Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Eurovision 2022 participants (https://eurovision.tv/event/turin-2022/participants) Guo Gu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Yu) The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/39NC00u) Grateful Dead, Morning Dew (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMotfSyRcwU) (Live at Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 5/8/77) The Next Track, Episode #130 - Desert Island Discs, Part 1 (https://www.thenexttrack.com/133) Merlin Bird ID (https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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.) Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) The Soto Zen Buddhist Association (http://szba.org) Thanks to Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com) for performing our theme music. To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Kōdō Sawaki (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kōdō_Sawaki) lKKYU was a DRUNKEN HORNDOG (Facebook) (https://www.facebook.com/groups/SotoZenGlobal/permalink/10157264545010692/) Dalai Lama 'deeply sorry' for remarks about women (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48844825) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

What does it mean to practice zen? "Every tick of the clock holds all of time in the universe." Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Nishijima Roshi: The Dish Rack Teachings (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?21233-Nishijima-Roshi-The-Dish-Rack-Teachings) Steve Howe: Clap (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNUedapF-bo) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo announces a new beginning for the future of zen in the universe. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) April 1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Renpo Niwa Zenji (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?16888-Niwa-Zenji-Our-Dharma-Grandfather) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk talk about zen and war. How should zen practitioners act when faced with war? How can we prevent war? Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Brian Daizen Victoria: Zen at War (https://amzn.to/2N7yobu) “Zen at War” Brian Victoria: Throwing Bombs at Kodo (http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/CriticalZen/ThrowingBombs_at_Kodo_JundoCohen.pdf) Edwin Starr: War (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQHUAJTZqF0) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk discuss the idea of oneness. The good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly are all facets of the great jewel. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Transparent eyeball (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_eyeball) Emerson and Zen Buddhism (https://amzn.to/2qbSjxT) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We generally avoid politics, but with the increased gun violence in the US, we had to talk about zen and guns. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Water Margin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin) Daiho Hilbert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Hilbert) Osaka school massacre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka_school_massacre) Dr. Stef Aupers: Conspiracy theories between secular scepticism and religious salvation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtrjL_SzkfU) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We don't always have to agree with everyone. Sometimes we have to dissent. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) George Lakoff: Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Politics_(book)) Episode 62: Buddhisms (https://www.zen-of-everything.com/62) Where the Heart Beats; John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists (https://kirkville.com/book-review-where-the-heart-beats-john-cage-zen-buddhism-and-the-inner-life-of-artists/) Soto Buddhist Zen Association (https://www.szba.org) Thich Nhat Hanh (https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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? Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Zen doesn't often talk about love: romantic love, love for family, love for country, or just a simple love of tea. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Kannon Bodhisattva robot unveiled at Kyoto temple to share Buddha's religious teachings (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/23/business/tech/robotic-kannon-unveiled-kyoto-temple/) Guanyin (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanyin) The hard question (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness) Trolley problem (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem) Susan Blackmore (https://www.susanblackmore.uk) Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me (https://amzn.to/2Hh7aMU) Love in another dimension: Japanese man 'marries' Hatsune Miku hologram (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/12/national/japanese-man-marries-virtual-reality-singer-hatsune-miku-hologram/) Doomsday Book (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Book_(film)) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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? Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Why I Wear The Exact Same Thing to Work Every Day (https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a10441/why-i-wear-the-same-thing-to-work-everday/) Getting Things Done, David Allen (https://amzn.to/3pFwxNM) Episode 62: Buddhisms (https://www.zen-of-everything.com/62) Blink, Malcolm Gladwell (https://amzn.to/31AzRBW) FakeSpot (https://www.fakespot.com) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. "They're all the same Buddha, which is no buddha at all." Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk talk about zen and parenting. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Biography of Gautama Buddha (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha#Biography) Dr. Seuss books (https://amzn.to/2OvfVX2) Winnie the Pooh (https://amzn.to/2tz0Rk1) The Giving Tree (https://amzn.to/3722ynT) Stone Soup (https://amzn.to/2v9dH9f) Zen Shorts (https://amzn.to/2H1YoBY) Puppy Mind (https://amzn.to/2SAxExR) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo attempts to explain the Heart Sutra in 25 minutes. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) The Heart Sutra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra) Avalokiteśvara (Kannon) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalokiteśvara) Buddha Basics 02: Dukkha Sucks (https://www.zen-of-everything.com/80) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Zazenkai Sunday June 21st with Writer-Zen Historian Barbara O'Brien (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?17872-ATTENTION-Special-Zazenkai-SUN-June-21st-with-Writer-Zen-Historian-Barbara-O-Brien) Episode 14: What Is the Sound of One Kōan Clapping? (https://www.zen-of-everything.com/14) Zensabō (http://www.kikuday.com/zensabo/) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Spring is here, with the annual cycle of renewal. And sumo wrestling. And baseball. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Jundo's book, The Zen Master's Dance: A Guide to Understanding Dōgen and Who You Are in the Universe (https://wisdomexperience.org/product/the-zen-masters-dance/) Matsuo Bashô: Frog Haiku (30 translations) (http://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-frog.htm) The History of Sumo in Religion (http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid1/student_projects97/sumo/religion/historyr.html) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk discuss "hard" and "easy" zen. Has zen become too easy? Is it too hard? You are New York all along. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Junici Saga: Memories of Silk and Straw (https://amzn.to/2NUgc5H) The Next Track podcast (https://www.thenexttrack.com) Honkyoku (https://honkyoku.com) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Rohatsu - Bodhi Day (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhi_Day) Joseph Campbell: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (https://amzn.to/2ZmvJji) Santa Bodhisattva (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?17441-December-20-21st-Treeleaf-Weekly-Zazenkai-A-Merry-Rohatsu-Happy-New-This-Moment) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_Virginia,_there_is_a_Santa_Claus) Christmas in Japan (https://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/japan.shtml) Allen Ginsberg chanting the Heart Sutra (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAP8KYdtlmQ) Kaz Tanahashi's ensos (https://www.brushmind.net/artwork-1) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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... The universe is a cosmic joke, and we are the punchline. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Kirk's podcasts (https://kirkville.com/podcasts/) Nishijima Roshi: The Dish Rack Teachings (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?21233-Nishijima-Roshi-The-Dish-Rack-Teachings) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Śūraṅgama Sūtra (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Śūraṅgama_Sūtra) Dōgen (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dōgen) Monkfish (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lophius) Zazen: Not Sitting is as Vital as Sitting (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?17011-Zazen-Not-Sitting-is-as-Vital-as-Sitting) SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Yes! No! Sometimes! NEVER! (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?12430-SIT-A-LONG-with-Jundo-Yes%21-No%21-Sometimes%21-NEVER%21) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Schools of Buddhism (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_of_Buddhism) Stephen Batchelor (https://www.stephenbatchelor.org/index.php/en/) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We discuss the paramitas, or the virtues of a bodhisattva. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Paramitas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pāramitā) Episode 31: The Precepts (https://www.zen-of-everything.com/31) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

How do zen people get motivated? Is sitting zazen a form of procrastination? Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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? Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) 108 (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108_(number)) Mala (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japamala) Heart Sutra (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Big and small, two extremes, but, in zen, there's no difference. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Ushiku Daibutsu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushiku_Daibutsu) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk discuss tradition in zen. What are those funny sticks that the zen masters have, and what are they used for? Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Shippei (https://terebess.hu/zen/szoto/targykult.html) Jundo on the Secular Buddhist Podcast (https://secularbuddhism.org/episode-233-jundo-cohen-religious-secular-buddhism-the-best-of-all-worlds/) The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Alexander Technique (https://alexandertechnique.com) Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahāyāna_Mahāparinirvāṇa_Sūtra) Phantom limb syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_limb#Phantom_limb_syndrome) Seiza bench (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?17799-DIY-Meditation-Bench&highlight=seiza) Invisibilia: For Some Teens With Debilitating Pain, The Treatment Is More Pain (https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/09/700823481/invisibilia-for-some-teens-with-debilitating-pain-the-treatment-is-more-pain) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

The Zen arts have very strict rules, which you can break when you've mastered them. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Chiku Za (Kodama Hiroyuki): Koku (shakuhachi music) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF_S-7k8hFA) Takemitsu: From me flows what you call Time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI0msMmAxpY) Photo: Tea Tray Enso (https://kirkville.com/photo-tea-tray-enso/) John Daido Loori: The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life (https://amzn.to/3RYGHXl) Audrey Yoshiko Seo: Enso: Zen Circles of Enlightenment (https://amzn.to/3K6RAES) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Is there prayer in zen? Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients: a multicenter randomized trial of uncertainty and certainty of receiving intercessory prayer (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16569567/) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) He’s Playing His Cards Right (https://www.lionsroar.com/hes-playing-his-cards-right/) Ikkyū (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikkyū) Welcome to "Simple Living" - Chapters 1 and 2 (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?17020-Welcome-to-Simple-Living-Chapters-1-and-2) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Some people say that Zen isn't really Buddhism. We disagree. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyentse_Norbu) What Makes You Not a Buddhist (https://amzn.to/3XrUE2y) The Cup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cup_(1999_film)) Mubi (https://mubi.com/t/web/global/8cTPc-E6) Episode 62: Buddhisms (https://www.zen-of-everything.com/62) John Cage: Indeterminacy (https://www.lcdf.org/indeterminacy/s/34) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Is the boat moving, or is the land moving? Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Cover of manga about Dogen in the boat (https://images-fe.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51E%2B5ZxcvOL._SX342_SY445_QL70_ML2_.jpg) Hokie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Hokie) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

In the triumvirate of the three jewels, dharma and sangha are inferior to the Buddha, but are they really? Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Miracles are everywhere, in the tiniest blade of grass, in the noisiest sneeze, in the simplest loaf of bread. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) The Zen Master's Dance, Jundo's book (https://wisdomexperience.org/product/the-zen-masters-dance/) The Goldilocks Zone (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone) Helios (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios) The Miracle of Mindfulness, by Thich Nhat Hahn (https://amzn.to/3mNQRZD) Lou Tannen's (https://www.tannens.com) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

We use technology frequently, but we need to handle it wisely and respect it, with balance and moderation, and, occasionally, honor it. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Treeleaf Memorial for Electronics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htzlSlJGgvE) Plum Blossoms in Japan: Best Places to See 2022 (https://jw-webmagazine.com/plum-blossoms-in-japan/) Dogen on plum blossoms (https://www.mountainrecord.org/teachings/plum-blossoms/) Daisy, Apple's recycling robot (https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2019/04/apple-expands-global-recycling-programs/) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Kōan (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kōan) Tang dynasty (618–907) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_dynasty) Song dynasty (960–1297) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_dynasty) John Daido Loori (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Daido_Loori) Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (https://amzn.to/2PAWZpL) Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (https://amzn.to/2rs7fst) Dahui Zonggao (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahui_Zonggao) Hakuin Ekaku (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakuin_Ekaku) Episode 11: The Dokusan Room is Kinda Baloney (https://www.zen-of-everything.com/11) Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice (https://amzn.to/38uV8LR) The Blue Cliff Record (https://amzn.to/38FzAwa) The Gateless Gate (https://amzn.to/2PbO8vI) The Book of Equanimity (https://amzn.to/38w73ZO) The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans (https://amzn.to/2PdsCXl) Like Cats and Dogs: Contesting The Mu Koan In Zen Buddhism (https://amzn.to/2LMerGx) The Book of Mu: Essential Writings on Zen's Most Important Koan (https://amzn.to/2RM8Nbd) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. "Dukkha is sucky, but sukha is ducky." Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

How did we get here? Jundo and Kirk discuss how they got involved in Buddhism and Zen. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) 108 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108_(number)) What are the 108 Defilements (Bonno) (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?20968-What-are-the-108-Defilements) Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (https://amzn.to/45wphHI) Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (https://amzn.to/3R2XAlp) Meditation in Action (https://amzn.to/3OUji8B) Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation (https://amzn.to/3YU5cst) John Cage: Indeterminacy (https://www.lcdf.org/indeterminacy/s/34) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Master Dogen's Instructions for Washing the Hands (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?17611-MASTER-DOGEN-S-Instructions-for-Washing-the-Hands) Tonglen (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonglen) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Should you try to live a monastic life at home?  Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Monty Python: Four Yorkshiremen (https://genius.com/Monty-python-four-yorkshiremen-live-annotated) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) The Circle of the Way (https://amzn.to/2XZZAgH) The Jhanas in Theravada Buddhist Meditation (https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/gunaratana/wheel351.html) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Treeleaf is an online sangha, and has been around since 2006. How does a sangha work when members don't meet each other physically? Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Nyoi (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruyi_(scepter)) Sluggard waker (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggard_waker) Keisaku (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keisaku) Hossu (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossu) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk discuss how moderation is enlightenment, and how Goldilocks is the Buddha. Sort of. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Episode 58: In the Moment (https://www.zen-of-everything.com/58) The Goldilocks principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldilocks_principle) Soryo (僧侶) (https://www.tanoshiijapanese.com/dictionary/entry_details.cfm?entry_id=38281) Golden, B.C., woman nearly hit by meteorite in her own home (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-golden-bc-woman-nearly-hit-by-meteorite-in-her-own-home/) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Philip Kapleau: The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment (https://amzn.to/2ITlOe3) Brad Warner: Hardcore Zen (http://hardcorezen.info) Teachers checking students (Treeleaf forum thread) (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?17320-Teachers-checking-students) Jack Kornfield: After the Ecstasy, the Laundry (https://amzn.to/2NupCnv) Honkyoku: Kirk's shakuhachi website (https://honkyoku.com) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Vote (https://iwillvote.com) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To submit a question, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Jundo and Kirk discuss living in the moment, and how, at times, you can be too much in the moment. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Treeleaf Forum: Being Moderate On "Being In The Moment" (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?19055-Jundo-BEING-MODERATE-on-BEING-IN-THE-MOMENT&highlight=moment) Great Fool: Zen Master Ryōkan; Poems, Letters, and Other Writings (https://amzn.to/3F4MwvH) Kshana (https://www.learnreligions.com/about-time-449562) Chronon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronon) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Part of Zen tradition is to follow silly rules in order to become free of silly rules. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) If you want to get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com. If you like the podcast, please follow in Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.