The Zen of Everything
A zen take on life, love, laughter, and everything else.
About the show
The Zen of Everything presents a zen take on life, love, laughter, and everything else. With Jundo Cohen, a real zen master, and Kirk McElhearn, a guy who knows a bit about zen.
Episodes
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Episode 108: A Look Back
September 1st, 2023 | 33 mins 27 secs
How did we get here? Jundo and Kirk discuss how they got involved in Buddhism and Zen.
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Episode 107: Bad Buddhists
August 18th, 2023 | 24 mins 1 sec
Aren't buddhists supposed to maintain equanimity all the time, not have bad thoughts, not be jealous or angry?
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Episode 106: Was Buddha a Revolutionary or a Conservative?
August 4th, 2023 | 26 mins 44 secs
Was the Buddha a proto-communist, or did he go with the flow and the status quo?
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Episode 105: The Monk with a Mortgage
July 21st, 2023 | 25 mins 34 secs
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.
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Episode 104: The Best Zen Books
July 7th, 2023 | 27 mins 33 secs
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.
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Episode 103: Jundo's Decluttering Tips
June 23rd, 2023 | 26 mins 16 secs
We have too much stuff. We discuss the CohenJundo method of decluttering.
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Episode 102: Buddha Basics 15: The Heart Sutra Explained in 25 Minutes
June 9th, 2023 | 30 mins 25 secs
Jundo attempts to explain the Heart Sutra in 25 minutes.
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Episode 101: Big and Small
May 26th, 2023 | 23 mins 19 secs
Big and small, two extremes, but, in zen, there's no difference.
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Episode 100: Two Guys in a Zen Pub
May 12th, 2023 | 27 mins 30 secs
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...
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Episode 99: Buddha Basics 14: The Five Hindrances
April 28th, 2023 | 21 mins 41 secs
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?
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Episode 96: Thinking about Thoughts
March 17th, 2023 | 26 mins 3 secs
We think thoughts all the time. Why do we have these thoughts, and how do we deal with them?
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Episode 95: Buddha Basics 13: Practice, Practice, Practice
March 3rd, 2023 | 24 mins 25 secs
What does it mean to practice zen?
"Every tick of the clock holds all of time in the universe."
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Episode 94: Zen and Creativity
February 17th, 2023 | 24 mins 30 secs
The Zen arts have very strict rules, which you can break when you've mastered them.
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Episode 93: Rules and When to Break Them
February 3rd, 2023 | 25 mins 50 secs
Part of Zen tradition is to follow silly rules in order to become free of silly rules.