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The Zen of Everything
Jundo Cohen & Kirk McElhearn
108 episodes
6 months ago
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.
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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.
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Buddhism
Comedy,
Religion & Spirituality,
Society & Culture
Episodes (20/108)
The Zen of Everything
Episode 108: A Look Back

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

  • Treeleaf
  • 108
  • What are the 108 Defilements (Bonno)
  • Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
  • Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
  • Meditation in Action
  • Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation
  • John Cage: Indeterminacy

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

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1 year ago
33 minutes 27 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 107: Bad Buddhists

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

  • Treeleaf
  • Vinaya rules about sex
  • James Austin: Zen and the Brain

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1 year ago
24 minutes 1 second

The Zen of Everything
Episode 106: Was Buddha a Revolutionary or a Conservative?

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

  • Treeleaf
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance

- Karl Marx: Capital

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2 years ago
26 minutes 44 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 105: The Monk with a Mortgage

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
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance
  • Renpo Niwa Zenji

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2 years ago
25 minutes 34 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 104: The Best Zen Books

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
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance
  • Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice
  • Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment
  • Shunryu Suzuki: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
  • Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
  • Philip Kapleau Roshi: The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment
  • Shohaku Okumura: Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo
  • Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries
  • Shohaku Okumura: The Mountains and Waters Sutra: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's "Sansuikyo"
  • Steven Heine: Readings of Dōgen's "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye"
  • Steven Heine: Dogen: Japan's Original Zen Teacher
  • Taigen Dan Leighton: Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dōgen and the Lotus Sutra
  • Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom: Three Fascicles from Shobogenzo with Commentary
  • Kazuaki Tanahashi: Enlightenment Unfolds: the essential teachings of Dogen
  • Kazuaki Tanahashi: Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen
  • Will Johnson: The Posture of Meditation
  • Barbara Hoetsu O'Brien: The Circle of the Way - A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World
  • Jonathan Landaw & Stephan Bodian: Buddhism For Dummies
  • Diana St. Ruth: Simple Guide to Zen Buddhism
  • Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan, translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi
  • Kazuaki Tanahashi: The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan
  • Red Pine: The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
  • Norman Fischer & Susan Moon: What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind
  • Stephen Batchelor: The Art of Solitude
  • Brian Daizen Victoria: Zen at War
  • Suggested BOOKS & MEDIA on Zen Practice (Treeleaf)

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2 years ago
27 minutes 33 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 103: Jundo's Decluttering Tips

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

  • Treeleaf

- Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance

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2 years ago
26 minutes 16 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 102: Buddha Basics 15: The Heart Sutra Explained in 25 Minutes

Jundo attempts to explain the Heart Sutra in 25 minutes.

  • Treeleaf
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance
  • The Heart Sutra
  • Avalokiteśvara (Kannon)
  • Buddha Basics 02: Dukkha Sucks

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2 years ago
30 minutes 25 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 101: Big and Small

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

  • Treeleaf
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance
  • Ushiku Daibutsu

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2 years ago
23 minutes 19 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 100: Two Guys in a Zen Pub

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
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance
  • Kirk's podcasts
  • Nishijima Roshi: The Dish Rack Teachings

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2 years ago
27 minutes 30 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 99: Buddha Basics 14: The Five Hindrances

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
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance

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2 years ago
21 minutes 41 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 98: Flying Rabbits on the Moon

Do we know anything?

  • Treeleaf
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance

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2 years ago
25 minutes 37 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 97: Prayer

Is there prayer in zen?

  • Treeleaf
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance
  • 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

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2 years ago
23 minutes 55 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 96: Thinking about Thoughts

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

  • Treeleaf
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance
  • Episode 95: Buddha Basics 13: Practice, Practice, Practice

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2 years ago
26 minutes 3 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 95: Buddha Basics 13: Practice, Practice, Practice

What does it mean to practice zen?

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

  • Treeleaf
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance
  • Nishijima Roshi: The Dish Rack Teachings
  • Steve Howe: Clap

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2 years ago
24 minutes 25 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 94: Zen and Creativity

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

  • Treeleaf
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance
  • Chiku Za (Kodama Hiroyuki): Koku (shakuhachi music)
  • Takemitsu: From me flows what you call Time
  • Photo: Tea Tray Enso
  • John Daido Loori: The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life
  • Audrey Yoshiko Seo: Enso: Zen Circles of Enlightenment

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2 years ago
24 minutes 30 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 93: Rules and When to Break Them

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

  • Treeleaf
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance

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2 years ago
25 minutes 50 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 92: Motivation

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

  • Treeleaf
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance

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2 years ago
25 minutes 48 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 91: Monastic Life at Home

Should you try to live a monastic life at home? 

  • Treeleaf
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance
  • Monty Python: Four Yorkshiremen

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2 years ago
24 minutes 11 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 90: Buddha Basics 12: Equanimiousness

We discuss why a Zen vacuum cleaner comes with no attachments. We speak passionately about equanimity, and revel in non-attachment.

  • Treeleaf
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance
  • Episode 15: I'm Dreaming of a Zen Christmas
  • Tsundoku
  • Historical European new year dates

Theme music by Kiku Day.

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2 years ago
25 minutes 24 seconds

The Zen of Everything
Episode 89: Buddha Basics 11: DharmaSangha

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

  • Treeleaf
  • Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance

Theme music by Kiku Day.

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 or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

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2 years ago
25 minutes 4 seconds

The Zen of Everything
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.