330 – Teisho: Awakening Bodhicitta, Seeking Your Heart's Inmost Desire
This is a teisho – like a cross between a Dharma Talk and guided meditation. Teisho are sometimes called "encouragement talks," and they are...
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The Zen Studies Podcast
Host Domyo Burk is a Soto Zen priest and teacher. She records episodes specifically for podcast listeners on traditional Zen and Buddhist teachings, practices, and history.
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329 - No Buddhist Bible: A Brief Overview of 2500 Years' Worth of Buddhist Texts (2 of 2)
In Part 2 of this episode, I continue giving my "2,500 years' worth of Buddhist texts in a nutshell," an overview of texts in my Zen lineage...
328 – A Place Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Sangha as Community (2 of 2)
In Buddhism, we have three treasures: Buddha, teachers or our own awakened nature; Dharma, the teachings or the truth itself, and Sangha, th...
327 – A Place Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Sangha as Community (1 of 2)
In Buddhism, we have three treasures: Buddha, teachers or our own awakened nature; Dharma, the teachings or the truth itself, and Sangha, th...
326 - No Buddhist Bible: A Brief Overview of 2500 Years' Worth of Buddhist Texts (1 of 2)
You may have discovered there are lots of Buddhist teachings and texts. Jews have their Torah, Christians their Bible, Muslims their Quran,...
325 – Imagine Yourself as a Buddha and Unblock Your Natural Generosity
In Buddhism, we are guided by the ideal of a Buddha, or awakened being. One of the characteristics of a Buddha is unconditional and selfless...
324 - Yunmen's "Every Day Is a Good Day"
In koan #6 from the Blue Cliff Record, Yunmen says, "Every day is a good day." I explore this koan, including the way we sometimes imagine o...
323 – Zazen As Defiant Self-Care
Since the term arose in 1950's, "self-care" has referred to a number of different things. If we consider self-care to be things you do to re...
322 – Q&A: Relationships, Cultural "Zen," No-Self, and Confession
This a Q&A episode based on questions I've received from listeners: Does Zen have anything to say about human relationships? Can we learn an...
321 - How Buddhist is Zen? The Buddha's Teachings Compared to Radical Nondualism
Viewed historically, Zen is a form of Mahayana Buddhism that evolved from the original forms Buddhism that were established in India after t...
320 – Two Ends of the Spiritual Practice Tunnel: Self-Power Versus Other-Power
Zen Buddhism exemplifies practice based in self-power, or jiriki . Pure Land Buddhism exemplifies practice based in other-power, or tariki ....
319 – Q&A: Universal Life, the Bodhisattva Vow and Monasticism, and Other Traditions
This is one of my unscripted Q&A episodes, where I answer questions submitted by listeners. If you have a question, go ahead and send it to...
318 – Loving Your Enemies: Extending Metta Does Not Mean Capitulation
Unlike Jesus, the Buddha didn't explicitly instruct us to "love our enemies." However, he did instruct us to extend goodwill, or Metta, to a...
317 – Keizan's Denkoroku Chapter 1: Mahakashyapa's Smile
In this episode I read and reflect on Chapter One of Keizan's Denkoroku: Record of the Transmission of Illumination. In it, Shakyamuni Buddh...
316 – Buddhist Communities and Public Political Stands: A Moral Quandary
When should Buddhist communities take public stands on issues that could be seen as political? If politics is about how we make decisions in...
315 - Bad Zazen: Not Just an Oxymoron
The form of meditation we do in Zen, unless we're working on a koan, is called shikantaza – nothing but sitting – or silent illumination. It...
314 – Q&A: Comfort in the Precepts, Anger at Injustice, and Accidental Kensho
How do you find comfort in the precepts? What is the relationship between anger, forgiveness and justice? What about anxiety due to abrupt i...
313 – Ten Fields of Zen, Field 7 – Learning the Self: This Very Body Is Buddha (3 of 3)
This is the third part of three of my episodes on "Learning the Self," one of my Ten Fields of Zen. In the first episode I discussed why we...
312 – Ten Fields of Zen, Field 7 – Learning the Self: This Very Body Is Buddha (2 of 3)
Part two of three of my series on "Learning the Self," one of my Ten Fields of Zen. Last episode I discussed why we "study the self" in Zen,...
311 – Ten Fields of Zen, Field 7 – Learning the Self: This Very Body Is Buddha (1 of 3)
Ultimately, if you want to experience Realization and have it transform your life, you need to commit yourself to Learning the Self. This me...
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