The Mysterious Stone Crypt
PZI Podcast
Whenever we’re suffering, in essence we’re in the stone crypt. And how do we get out? Zen practice is for breaking those locks.
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Being the Host Wherever You Are: At Home in the Wide World
PZI Podcast
Being the host is being genuine. It’s loving your life, the one you have. For this you have to settle into what you really want.
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Return to the Pure Land
PZI Podcast
Arriving at my hotel that afternoon, I saw a dirty pickup truck that was just exquisite to look at. I’d never seen anything so clean, so crisp and so “here.” The whole universe is available to us in this way. All we have to do is return.
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The Harmonies
PZI Podcast
I’m restless and my body hurts, and in the middle of the night, I come out to the living room and it’s been waiting for me; the night is so happy to see me, and the owl opens its door and I can hear the conversation of the winter stars.
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Surprise Unmakes the World
PZI Podcast
When we are not expecting something, people to be nice to each other at Xmas, for example, what actually happens can be wonderful. When we are not looking, that’s when our lives change.
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Loving This Life, the One We Have
PZI Podcast
The Zen idea is that we need and we can find a pathway, make a pathway, through the dark. One way that we can navigate in the vast uncertainty is to praise each other, to console each other, to appreciate and extend a hand.
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Hearing the Cries, Blessing the World: The Kanzeon Sutra
PZI Podcast
Kanzeon is the sutra for setting out in the new year, and for setting out into the next life. When we notice that we are always secretly accompanied, that is the living presence of Kanzeon. She watches over our practice.
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Zen Luminaries: Poet Robert Hass in Conversation with Jon Joseph & Friends: On His Own Poetry, Japanese Haiku Masters, & 25 Years Working with Milosz
PZI Podcast
Jon Joseph talks with acclaimed poet Robert Hass about the great Japanese Haiku masters, Hass’s poetry, and his twenty-five-year collaboration with the poet Czeslaw Milosz.
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Nightmares in the Closet, Anxiety, & the Deepest Meditation
PZI Podcast
In the world of anxiety and stress we can always help others. And that’s what we do. The thing is not to seize a delusion to believe in.
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The Golden Wind Is Revealing Itself
PZI Podcast
We don’t get much say over what the world does and we don’t get much say over what enters our minds. Our job is to hold steady for the world, for those to come, to make a path for people to follow.
info_outlineBankei’s awakening came through facing his aversion to death. His question, “What is bright virtue?” brought him to Zen early in life. Later, he became one with the field and could fully see whatever he encountered. As your life becomes more whole, everything comes to belong.