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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We answer the timeless question of, what is, who is a Bodhisattva. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Jundo Cohen, The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) List of bodhisattvas (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bodhisattvas) Stephen Batchelor, Living with the Devil (https://amzn.to/3yBIycl) 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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

After the blues, the good times. Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Shunryu Suzuki: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (https://amzn.to/3ysiXDA) 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.

What is beautiful to zen practitioners? Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/) Ryōan-ji garden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryōan-ji) John Cage: Ryōan-ji (https://music.apple.com/us/album/ryoanji/1261848945) Treeleaf NOW! calendar, to find Washin's sittings (https://www.treeleaf.org/now/) 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A key phrase of Dogen's teaching is "dropping body and mind," a description of his enlightenment. Jundo and Kirk discuss what this means, and how you can drop body and mind when sitting zazen. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp) Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo (https://amzn.to/3KvIBdS) Steven Heine: Dogen, Japan's Original Zen Teacher (https://amzn.to/3FJwBlG) Dogen Casts Off "What": An Analysis of Shinjin Datsuraku (https://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/DogenStudies/Dogen_Casts_Off_What.html) The Life of Zen Master Dogen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6XS3_D92FY) (movie) 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'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.

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.

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.

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.