The Zen of Everything

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

After the results of the presidential election in the United States, Jundo and Kirk talk about reconciliation. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) George Lakoff on "your brain on Trump" (https://www.marketplace.org/2017/04/18/transcript-blog-trump-george-lakoff/) Swastika (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika) Episode 36: A Zen Guide to Elections (https://www.zen-of-everything.com/36) 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.