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Everyday Buddhism: Making Everyday Better

Everyday Buddhism 11 - Koans: Reaching the Limit of Thought episode 11 / season 1

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Up for a fun challenge? In this podcast, I talk about my love of Zen Koans, as one of the rarest practices for 'messing with' your conceptual mind and shaking your false trust in the stability of what we think is 'knowledge.' A koan is, in essence, a problem that can't be solved by the intellect. In trying to understand it, you run up against the limitations of thought and, hopefully, tap into a direct and non-verbal awareness of reality. Most people think of koans as riddles or puzzles to solve. It's not about that. The deal with koans is that they are about "I don't know." Koans expose us to the fact that we are so stuffed with concepts and snared by thinking that we can't see what's right in front of us... in the kitchen... in the garden... the desk... out our window... on a familiar walk. These are the places where koans leap from. Through koans we get a glimpse into how to let the world come to us in whatever shape it takes.

Season 1

episodes

BONUS Episode - Re-Release of Why Sangha - Bringing Buddhism to Life

BONUS PODCAST: Contemplation - Loved Just As I Am

SPECIAL Intro to Ep.72 and 73 - Dynamic Acceptance of What Seems Impossible

BONUS PODCAST PREVIEW: Contemplation - Not Knowing

Everyday Buddhism 71 - Why Nonsense Makes the Most Sense

Everyday Buddhism 15 - A Buddha Belongs to the World

Everyday Buddhism 14 - Protesting? What's in Your Mind?

Everyday Buddhism 9 - Right Action is not REaction

Everyday Buddhism 1 - Be an Insider

Episode 1

Everyday Buddhism 2 - What is Your WHY?

Episode 2

Everyday Buddhism 3 - The Slippery Self

Episode 3

Everyday Buddhism 4 - What Does Buddhism Say About...?

Episode 4

Everyday Buddhism 5 - Discussion with Noah Rasheta

Episode 5

Everyday Buddhism 6 - Got Intention? AKA How to Be Less of a Jerk

Episode 6

Everyday Buddhism 7 - Right Speech: "Zip It!"

Episode 7

Everyday Buddhism 8 - Mindfulness Discussion with Meg Salter

Episode 8

Everyday Buddhism 10 - Right Livelihood is What You Think About What You Do

Episode 10

Everyday Buddhism 12 - MORE Koans: Bringing Them Into the Everyday

Episode 12

Everyday Buddhism 13 - Right Effort: Joyful Balance

Episode 13

Everyday Buddhism 16 - Simple Awareness and the Many Forms of Meditation

Episode 16

Everyday Buddhism 17 - Radically Happy: Conversation with Phakchok Rinpoche and Erric Solomon

Episode 17

Everyday Buddhism 18 - The 5 Precepts: Gentle Guides Not Commandments

Episode 18

Everyday Buddhism 19 - Bodhi Day Special: The Grace of Light

Episode 19

Everyday Buddhism 20 - A Bright Dawn: Conversation with Rev. Koyo Kubose

Episode 20

Everyday Buddhism 21 - Tibetan Buddhism: There is Only One Dharma

Episode 21

Everyday Buddhism 22 - Release Your Cows

Episode 22

Everyday Buddhism 23 - Japanese Psychology and Buddhism with Gregg Krech

Episode 23

Everyday Buddhism 24 - Appreciating Life Through Death Meditation

Episode 24

Everyday Buddhism 25 - Pureland Buddhism with Satya Robyn

Episode 25

Everyday Buddhism 26 - Why Sangha? Bringing Buddhism to Life

Episode 26

Everyday Buddhism 27 - Right Mindfulness and Meditation

Episode 27

Everyday Buddhism 28 - June Weddings, Relationships, and Perfection?

Episode 28

Everyday Buddhism 29 - Right Speech is Right Listening

Episode 29

Everyday Buddhism 30 - The Buddha Sat Right Here with Dena Moes

Episode 30

Everyday Buddhism 31 - The Boundless Heart: Bodhicitta

Episode 31

Everyday Buddhism 32 - Buddhism, Baseball, and Life

Episode 32

Everyday Buddhism 33 - Halloween: What Scares You? What Masks Do You Wear?

Episode 33

Everyday Buddhism 34 - The Book is Here! Book Launch Special

Episode 34

Everyday Buddhism 35 - Bodhi Day: The Light is Inside!

Episode 35

Everyday Buddhism 36 - Random New Year's Thoughts

Episode 36

Everyday Buddhism 37 - Pragmatic Buddhism with Ken McLeod

Episode 37

Everyday Buddhism 38 - And Yet, And Yet

Episode 38

Everyday Buddhism 39 - Let's Not Talk About Politics

Episode 39

Everyday Buddhism 40 - Covid-19 Mind Protection

Episode 40

Everyday Buddhism 41 - American Sutra with Duncan Williams

Episode 41

Everyday Buddhism 42 - How Not to Feel Like a Victim

Episode 42

Everyday Buddhism 43 - Awakening to the Ordinary with Dr. Christiane Michelberger

Episode 43

Everyday Buddhism 44 - Chaos and Order: Personal Reflections, Poetry, and Chaos Theory

Episode 44

Everyday Buddhism 45 - We're All in the Same Storm But Not in the Same Boat

Episode 45

Everyday Buddhism 46 - 6 Steps for Coping with Uncertainty with Gregg Krech

Episode 46

Everyday Buddhism 47 - Building a Resilience Bank Account

Episode 47

Everyday Buddhism 48 - Announcing the Everyday Buddhism Lecture Series on Mindful Writing

Episode 48

Everyday Buddhism 49 - A Missing Future with David Farley

Episode 49

Everyday Buddhism 50 - The Social Dilemma and Otherness

Episode 50

Everyday Buddhism 51 - Steady, Calm and Brave with Kimberly Brown

Episode 51

Everyday Buddhism 52 - How To Be Thankful in the Midst of Sadness

Episode 52

Everyday Buddhism 53 - Lessons for Covid Living From Those With Long-Term Health Challenges

Episode 53

Everyday Buddhism 54 - Same Crap, Different Year?

Episode 54

Everyday Buddhism 55 - Introducing Where The Light Meets

Episode 55

Everyday Buddhism 56 - Can You Lament And Still Be A Buddhist?

Episode 56

Everyday Buddhism 57 - Dharma for Trauma

Episode 57

Everyday Buddhism 58: Allow Joy - Chan Practice for Uncertain Times

Episode 58

Everyday Buddhism 59: The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas with Frank Howard

Episode 59

Everyday Buddhism 60 - It's All About "Tude" But Not That "Tude"

Episode 60

Everyday Buddhism 61 - A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment with Scott Snibbe

Episode 61

Everyday Buddhism 62 - The Magic Power of Equanimity

Episode 62

Everyday Buddhism 63 - Halloween: What Scares You? What Masks Do You Wear?

Episode 63

Everyday Buddhism 64 - We Were Made For These Times With Kaira Jewel Lingo

Episode 64

Everyday Buddhism 65 - Winter Solstice, Bodhi Day, and the Light of the Buddha's Promise

Episode 65

Everyday Buddhism 66 - Buddhist Spiritual Friendship as a UU Pastor with Pamela Patton

Episode 66

Everyday Buddhism 67 - Love and the Strength of Our Humanness

Episode 67

Everyday Buddhism 68 - The Buddha's Wife: Yasodhara and the Buddha with Vanessa Sasson

Episode 68

Everyday Buddhism 69 - Thoughts on the Loss of My Teacher - Rev. Koyo Kubose

Episode 69

Everyday Buddhism 70 - Disappearing? Transcending?

Episode 70

Everyday Buddhism 72 - Walking on Pins and Needles with Arlene Faulk

Episode 72

Everyday Buddhism 73 - Confined to Align with Ashley Lyn Olson

Episode 73

Everyday Buddhism 74 - My Relationship With Troublesome Buddhas

Episode 74

Everyday Buddhism 75 - Beyond the Cushion with Jack Huynh

Episode 75

Everyday Buddhism 76 - Losing My Hair: Alopecia, An Uninvited Teacher

Episode 76

Everyday Buddhism 77 - Shin Buddhism with Rev. Marvin Harada

Episode 77

Everyday Buddhism 78 - The Diamonds Within Us With Melissa Moore

Episode 78

Everyday Buddhism 79 - Luminous Darkness with Deborah Eden Tull

Episode 79

Everyday Buddhism 80 - Bodhi Day: Best of Everyday Buddhism Episodes

Episode 80

Everyday Buddhism 81 - Navigating Grief and Loss with Kimberly Brown

Episode 81

Everyday Buddhism 82 - Birthday Bonus Intro: Impermanence

Episode 82

BIRTHDAY BONUS PODCAST: The Five Remembrances with Bradley Jinaiyo Nussbaum

Episode 83

BIRTHDAY BONUS PODCAST: Impermanence with Kaspa Thompson (Inspired by Shan Tao)

Episode 84

Everyday Buddhism 85 - What Could Go Right with Emma Varvaloucas

Episode 85

BONUS - Chat With Everyday Buddhism 1

Episode 86

Everyday Buddhism 87 - Untangled with Koshin Paley Ellison

Episode 87

Everyday Buddhism 88 - Finding Venerable Dhammananda Bhikkhuni with Cindy Rasicot

Episode 88

Everyday Buddhism 89 - Encore of Right Effort: Joyful Balance

Episode 89

Everyday Buddhism 90 - Radical Love with Satish Kumar

Episode 90

Everyday Buddhism 91 - The Teaching of Conditioned Existence All Around Us

Episode 91

Everyday Buddhism 92 - Interdependence Day Mini Episode

Episode 92

Everyday Buddhism 93 - Waking the Buddha with Clark Strand

Episode 93

Everyday Buddhism 94 - Soul Boom with Rainn Wilson

Episode 94

Everyday Buddhism 95 - Pure Land Sutra Study and Encore Episode with Bishop Marvin Harada

Episode 95

Everyday Buddhism 96 - Householder Koans with Roshi Eve Myonen Marko

Episode 96

Everyday Buddhism 97 - War, Anger, and Propaganda with Gemma Naturkach

Episode 97

Everyday Buddhism 98 - The Wonder of Small Things with James Crews

Episode 98

Episode 98 - The Wonder of Small Things with James Crews

Episode 98

Everyday Buddhism 99 - Introducing Words From My Teachers

Episode 99

Everyday Buddhism 100 - Words From My Teachers Episode 1

Episode 100

Everyday Buddhism 101 - Words From My Teachers Episode 2

Episode 101

Everyday Buddhism 102 - Encore of The Boundless Heart of Bodhicitta

Episode 102

Everyday Buddhism 103 - Purposeless Purpose: Why Nonsense Makes the Most Sense Redux

Episode 103

Everyday Buddhism 104 - BONUS - Purposeless Purpose

Episode 104

Episode 104 - BONUS - Purposeless Purpose

Episode 104

Everyday Buddhism 105 - Illumination with Rebecca Li

Episode 105

Everyday Buddhism 106 - Appalachian Zen with Steve Kanji Ruhl

Episode 106

Everyday Buddhism 107 - Your Heart Was Made for This with Oren Jay Sofer

Episode 107

Everyday Buddhism 107 - Your Heart Was Made for This with Oren Jay Soffer

Episode 107

Everyday Buddhism 108 - Heart Teachings from Bhikkhuni Dhammananda with Cindy Rasicot

Episode 108

Everyday Buddhism 109 - How to Train a Happy Mind with Scott Snibbe

Episode 109

Everyday Buddhism 110 - Poetry and Writing as Spiritual Practice with Nadia Colburn

Episode 110

Everyday Buddhism 110 - Poetry Writing as Spiritual Practice with Nadia Colburn

Episode 110

Everyday Buddhism 111 - Buddhist Psychology with Natalie Baker

Episode 111

Everyday Buddhism 112 - Buddhist Response to Election Angst with Scott Snibbe

Episode 112

Episode Everyday Buddhism 112 - Buddhist Response to Election Angst with Scott Snibbe

Episode 112

Everyday Buddhism 113 - "Open" with Nate Klemp

Episode 113

Episode 113 - Open with Nate Klemp

Episode 113

Everyday Buddhism 114 - Release of My 2nd Book - Living Life As It Is

Episode 114

Everyday Buddhism 115 - Unlocking the Heart with James Crews

Episode 115

Everyday Buddhism 116 - Revisiting Koans: Releasing the Grip on "Reality"

Episode 116

Everyday Buddhism 117 - The Way with Henry Shukman

Episode 117

Episode 117 - The Way with Henry Shukman

Episode 117

Everyday Buddhism 118 - The End of Suffering with Ani Lodro Palmo

Episode 118

Everyday Buddhism 119 - Spreading Joy

Episode 119

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