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This podcast is brought to you by the Eon Zen Center, led by Paul Gyodo Agostinelli, Sensei and based in Boulder, Colorado, US. To support this podcast and the programs of Eon Zen, or to find out more, please go to eonzen.org. We thank you for your support, and we wish you peace, joy and fellowship on your path of awakening.

Paul Gyodo Agostinelli


    • Oct 26, 2021 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 34 EPISODES


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    Rebirth and Remaining

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2021 31:14


    As we come to the end of our 90-day intensive period we enter a liminal place that can feel like a birth. In surrendering completely to what is happening within us -- in the supportive environment of our practice -- we emerge both exhausted and renewed, baby and mother both. This is the koan of transformation, the tail of the water buffalo that remains after the body passes through the window.

    Solid, Deep, Solitary and Naked

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2021 34:05


    Zen practitioners celebrate the Buddha's Awakening during Rohatsu. While much myth encrusts the historical record of this event, we can follow the Buddha's model of deep investigation through the meditative mind. Many practitioners have felt this inner emergence for themselves, discovering a ground of being that is both personal and impersonal, undeniable and inexpressible.

    What's Your Relationship to Your Karma?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2021 39:51


    We are never really outside of our sensory experience or our life story. From them, we create sense and meaning. With conscious Attention and Intention, we shift from a background/foreground to a single ground, creating the field where subject and object dissolve. Then karma and dharma are seen as one.

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    To Cultivate Gratitude, Just Pay Attention

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2021 23:10


    The Call To Continuity

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2021 19:04


    Calm and steady, linking together all the elements of our lives - A talk by Geoff Shōun

    Coming To Our Senses

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2021 19:33


    Anger is wisdom energy that has the power to heal. Aggression is when that energy is enlisted by the ego. Our holding capacity for our moment-to-moment sensory experience is what allows us to maintain a connection with the elemental wisdom dimension without a hidden agenda. Talk by Sam Sokyo Randall

    How The One Body Heals

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2021 34:09


    Mysterious and vast, the One Body extends through space and time. Its healing potential is actualized through the mysterious and vast power of intention, or vow. Intentions seeded in the past bear fruit now as intentions seeded now will bear fruit in the future. Meanwhile, we are in direct communication with our past and future selves right now. Who can say where it all began?

    Burn It Down

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2021 32:23


    Anger carries a profound transformative potential, but only if it is felt. If we cut ourselves off from feeling, our anger will ultimately burn down whatever is keeping us from feeling.

    Don't Be Fooled by Others

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2020 28:53


    We are fooled by others when we look outside for our own self-understanding. When we look inside, we find ourselves grounded as the functioning of awareness itself. “Absolute Subjectivity”. What name does that go by?

    Hell is a Temple

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2020 23:03


    Mark Eckhardt shares the dharma of raising a temple in the very place where we stand. For a Black man in America, that place can be a hell.

    The Robe of Liberation

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2020 27:08


    When we put on the kesa, we take refuge in teachings that give our lives support, protection and meaning. The simple act subtly affects ourselves and others.

    Are You Overwhelmed Yet?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2020 31:02


    In times of complexity and chaos, what is the sacred work you are called to do? What does that type of inspiration look like? When the world seems overwhelming, it is our minds -- not the world -- that is overwhelmed.

    Both Two and One

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2020 25:36


    Quarterly Mondo: The Three Treasures

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2020 56:48


    Sangha Q&A with Gyodo Sensei on the three treasures of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.

    Grasses Everywhere (But Here)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2020 27:05


    Our inner and outer worlds are permeated with disturbances. To be undisturbed outside means seeing the True Nature of phenomena without adding anything extra.To be undisturbed inside means seeing the true nature of oneself without sprouting delusions.

    Burning Down The House

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2020 30:11


    Skillful means invite us to consider time, place, person and degree in all we do and say. Enlightening beings may rescue you from a burning house or set fire to your house to wake you up, depending. What will you do next?

    Bearing Witness is not Passive

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2020 22:21


    The Work Only You Can Do

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2020 22:24


    Master Dogen asked Master Lu why he worked so hard in the hot sun instead of asking his assistants to help. Lu responded, “If I do not do it now, when else can I do it?" We misunderstand if we believe Master Lu was caught up in our modern neurosis of time poverty. Instead, he affirms that Now is always the time to do our work.

    Coming Together, Falling Apart

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2020 19:31


    What happens when the "stuffing comes out"? Sam Sokyo Randall shares how falling apart together can be transformative for us as individuals and sanghas.

    You Are The Hand

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2020 19:08


    Master Hyakujo said, "a day without work is a day without food." When asked who he did the work for, he said, "There is one who needs it, and that one has no hands." In our most purposeful work, we are the hand that serves something greater.

    Stepping Up In Sangha

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2020 28:32


    Spiritual bypassing is understood as short-changing our path of "growing up" (or "cleaning up") while we pretend to focus on "waking up". But "stepping up" is the important third aspect of our lives. Ignoring our responsibility to step up is equally harmful, whether we are "spiritually bypassing" or "emotionally bypassing" (an excessive emphasis on our emotional growth/healing, i.e. "woundology")

    Entering The Eon of 2020

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2020 23:22


    Entering 2020, we saw the ecological crisis as an opportunity to "come to our senses" and re-envision a life dedicated to every day transformation of the three poisons of greed, aversion and ignorance.

    Karma: Let go, let come, let be

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2020 16:03


    Spiritual growth is about more than "letting go". Letting go is essential for working with the toxin of craving. We work with the the toxins of aversion and ignorance by "letting come" and "letting be".

    The Path Home 10 - Entering the Marketplace with Helping Hands

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2020 20:46


    You have come full circle from the innocence of the child to the innocence of mastery. Naked, seeking nothing extra, carrying nothing extra, practice ha completely dissolved into ordinary life. You ceaselessly arrive home.

    The Path Home- Returning to the Original Place

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2020 18:12


    With joy, you experience the reward body. Mountains are mountains again and rivers are rivers again! Every moment is vividly and uniquely alive, and your heart flutters in consort with life.

    The Path Home 8 - The Ox and the Oxherder Are Both Forgotten

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2020 19:49


    Whip, tether, self and ox have all merged, no traces remain. The vast blue sky cannot be reached by thoughts. Even the thought of stages is gone. You are in accord with the ancient way.

    The Path Home 7 - Forgetting The Ox

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2020 25:39


    Technique, artifice, and need for external discipline are gone! In the seventh stage, the practice does itself. Your life is meditation, practice, dharma. The world is illuminated.

    The Path Home 6: Riding The Ox Back Home

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2020 19:58


    In the six stage effort has become effortless. We are ok with not knowing where we are going, because we are confident in what is unfolding. Twists and turns are no longer a cause of suffering!

    The Path Home 5: Taming The Ox

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2020 24:09


    In the fifth stage, we reap the benefits of discipline. We broaden the aspects of our lives that are informed by awakened nature. There may not be fireworks, but there is profound and subtle deepening that affects others as well as yourself.

    The Path Home 4 - Catching The Ox

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2020 27:28


    A first true bodily understanding of the insubstantiality of the self can be exhilarating, but very quickly a forceful ego can create struggle and effort. Self-realization is not a simple thing!

    The Path Home 3 - Seeing The Ox

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2020 24:54


    The Path Home 2 - Seeing The Tracks

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2020 20:58


    In the second stage, we see "footprints" on the path. It might be an encounter with a teacher, or a teaching, or a tradition. Others have walked this path!

    Taking The Path 1 - The Search Begins

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2020 21:31


    Taking The Path Rediscovering Your Source

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2020 23:43


    The ox herding pictures represent a map of the spiritual path. Brought to practice by the experience of our suffering and the sense that something is out of alignment, we embark on a journey. We find that this path is non-linear and each stage is rich with its own opportunities and pitfalls.

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