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Weekly public talks recorded live at the Angel City Zen Center
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- 3 days ago39 min
Stress Test (What Am I Doing Here??) w/ Sebastien
In our ongoing series where brave sangha members tell us the story of what they’re doing and why they’re here, while we just maybe learn something about those things for ourselves, good sangha friend Sebastien brings us a fascinating and curious philosophical autobiography that searches skeptically through a couple thousand years of religion & thought to see if one of them might hold up to the stress test of an actual life. What do we lose when we have no religion and what do lose when we take one on? Is Buddhism’s takeover of psychology complete? Is skepticism the most solid ground for faith? And is Buddhism gaining culture currency just a recipe for making it corny? Find out here!
- 1 weeks ago34 min
Controlling the Message (Rage & Repression) w/ Sara Campbell
Sara dives deep into the dangerous waters of molten lavas of rage, grief, and repression bubbling just beneath the surface of our coping mechanisms. What do we deprive the world when we repress our inconvenient feelings, and is there a safe way to air them out? Are there good reasons to spend our energy propping up the institutions that let us down? And if the way we feel isn’t a problem, how are we supposed to fix it?? Find out here!
- 2 weeks ago38 min
What to Love in Everything (Listening Practice) w/ Dave Cuomo
Dave brings us a brass tacks talk on meditation technique with a deep look at listening practice, inner listening, and intentional meditation practice in general. Can we engage in such things without spoiling the freewheeling just sitting shikantaza Zen is famous for? Can we scale the heights of the deepest meditative attainments with nothing but effortless ease? Is the peace we seek waiting quietly for us in the omnipresent roar of the A/C? Find out here!
- 3 weeks ago40 min
Tune In (Deep Listening) w/ Matthew Sherling
Resident poet Matthew is back with a deep exploration of the Buddhist and personal lore around listening practice, as wayward monks almost get sexy, a patron saint of listening saves us all by finding the sound of her own heart beat, Matthew reveals his awkward youthful misdeeds, and we dissolve the boundaries between ourselves and everybody else to find ourselves just a little more free. Are wisdom and compassion just another word for listening? Can we still function in the world if we drop the narrative of its story? Is listening to ourselves checking out the most fool proof way to tune in?? Find out here!
- Aug 14, 202639 min
Bones to Pick (Post Traumatic Growth) w/ Dave Cuomo
Dave dives into the intersection of Zen and cutting edge psychology to learn about post traumatic growth and whether that might just be the wellness Zen has been quietly selling all these thousands of years. How come terrible experiences sometimes shut us down and sometimes opens us up into new and wondrous worlds? Is everything we go through really for the better? Can reality ever wrong? And if we can’t trust our own eyes, ears, or thoughts, who can we trust?? Find out here!
- Aug 7, 202636 min
Some Kind of Freak (The Inner Critic) w/ Sara Campbell
Sara explores the inner critic and its role in the creative process through an insightful dissection of Bodhidharma’s original founding text of Zen. How does what our Great Red Bearded Barbarian Ancestor actually said measure up to the perfect Zen master living rent free in our heads? Where does the inner critic come from and how does it hold us back? Is it actually making some good points, and is there a healthier happier way of listening to that? Find out here!
- Jul 31, 202633 min
Silence! (Silence) w/ Beth Kaiserman
Beth explores the lure of silence, how to find it, what it asks of us, and what it offers. How much of our energy and attention do we owe to our family and friends? What is conversation really for? How can we explain the inner worlds we fly through freely when we’re not thinking in words?? Find out here!
- Jul 24, 202640 min
A Kind of Magic (Magic in Zen) w/ Dave Cuomo
Dave takes a secular look at the the literal magic embedded in the ceremonies and rituals of Zen to see if we can still wholeheartedly relate to them in our modern rational age, and if we’re going to try, what it would take to get the math of that magic right. Have we completely misunderstood what magic was supposed to mean and how it works? Can we draw on the power of a history we don’t always agree with? Do we need to believe in the mechanics of our rituals for their magic to work? Find out here!
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