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Podcast: This week on the show we feature a pre-recorded conversation with Ji Hyang Padma, author of Field of Blessings: Ritual & Consciousness in the Work of Buddhist Healers. Ji Hyang believes that we are hungry for a direct experience of the sacred in this culture. We try to fill the void with technology, and its “quick fix” of images and information. This leaves us hungry for true connectivity. We don't need more information. We need more appreciation. Gratitude opens the heart, and gives our life meaning; it becomes a form of spiritual experience that gives us strength. Field of Blessings explores how meaning-making can be approached by deep examination of the stories of our lives, which bridge the gap between the inner world and the outer world, giving shape to our experience. How can these narratives be spoken, written, or embodied? Ritual is the story brought-to-life, and a powerful vehicle for spiritual transformation, for reconnecting people with an embodied wholeness. Ji Hyang Padma shows that Chöd, Medicine Buddha practices, and other Tibetan rituals are used by healers to evoke sacred energies, radical empathy, and to contact deep archetypal realms of the psyche. Ji Hyang Padma is currently a CPE Chaplain Resident at the University of San Francisco Medical Center, and combines an academic and professional career with her role as a Zen teacher. Ji Hyang has done intensive Zen training and teaching in Asia and North America for 20 years, 15 of these as an ordained nun. She has completed several 90-day intensive retreats in Korea and North America. She also teaches Zen workshops annually at Omega Institute and Esalen Institute. While her practice has been situated within the Korean Zen tradition, she has had the benefit of studying with teachers across a wide spectrum of Buddhist lineages. Ji Hyang has also served as Director of Spirituality and Education Programs at Wellesley College, and Director and Abbot of Cambridge Zen Center, one of the largest Zen Centers in the country. Additionally, she has served as a meditation teacher at Wellesley College, Harvard University and Boston University. She is gifted at finding an entry-point into practice for people who are just beginning their journey. She is also the author of Living the Season: Zen Practice for Transformative Times. More information about Ji Hyang Padma's work can be found at: Mountain Path website: www.mountainpath.org, Ji Hyang Padma on The Mystical Positivist: On Buddhist Healing, Ji Hyang Padma on The Mystical Positivist: Living the Season.

Today we dive into what mindfulness actually IS, why it’s crucial for your wellness in today’s world, and how you can implement mindfulness practices to control stress and anxiety to improve your wellness. Kit realizes that she’s only one degree of separation from Jon Kabat-Zinn, father of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program she and Kaelynn studied as part of their Health & Wellness Coaching Certification studies at Georgetown. Kabat-Zinn has studied with Zen Buddhist teachers including Philip Kapleau, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Seung Sahn and is a founding member of Cambridge Zen Center. His “Guide to Mindfulness” is currently the most popular class on Masterclass Today. Thanks for listening! Don't forget to subscribe, rate & review! :) https://www.soulfullofwellness.com Email questions & suggestions to sfowpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram @soul_full_of_wellness Follow us on Twitter @SoulFullofWell1 Follow Kaelynn on Instagram @coaching_with_kae Follow Kit on Instagram @breathe.relax.trust Thank you to Nick Serena, from Handsomebeast, for our theme music!

Ji Hyang Padma has combined an academic career with her vocation as a spiritual teacher. Ji Hyang currently serves as the Director of the Comparative Religion and Philosophy Program at California Institute for Human Science. For over a decade she served as Director of Spirituality & Education as well as Buddhist chaplain at Wellesley College. She has served Omega Institute for sixteen years as the meditation teacher in residence. Additionally, she has served as a meditation teacher at Harvard University, Boston University, Babson College, and Esalen Institute. Ji Hyang Padma has done intensive Zen training and teaching in Asia and North America for 20 years. She has completed several 90-day intensive retreats in Korea and North America. Ji Hyang has also served as Director and Abbot of Cambridge Zen Center, one of the largest Zen Centers in the country. She co-leads the North County Zen Circle. Ji Hyang is also a shamanic practitioner: she is a mesa carrier in the Andean lineage, and performs ceremonies and facilitates group healing work while at Omega. She has walked this path for ten years. Ji Hyang Padma studied issues of intercultural education, diversity and inclusion through Lesley University’s Counseling & Psychology program. At Wellesley College, she served as a chaplain within the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and Intercultural Education, and taught programs on conflict resolution and intercultural education-- including the launch of its Campus-Wide Diversity Initiative—which helped to create a more resilient culture within its diverse campus. Ji Hyang holds a doctorate in psychology from Sofia University. Her dissertation research focused on consciousness & healing. Ji Hyang’s recent writing has been published in Our Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interfaith Encounters and Arts of Contemplative Care: Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy and Pastoral Work. Her first book, Zen Practices for Transformative Times, was released by Quest Books in 2013. Ji Hyang also is a professional astrologer: her intuitive astrology illuminates the journey of the soul so that we can live our life to its fullest potential. More information about her work can be found here: http://www.natural-wisdom.org/ or here: http://www.mountainpath.org/.

Zen Master Bon Haeng, Mark Houghton, became a student of Zen Master Seung Sahn's in 1976 and was an early member of the Cambridge Zen Center where he lived for 14 years and was abbot for 12. He received inka, or permission to teach, in 1990. Zen Master Bon Haeng received transmission from Zen Master Seung Sahn in 2000. Today he is retired but continues to serve as the guiding teacher of the Open Meadow Zen Group in Lexington, MA, the co-guiding teacher the Providence Zen Center. If you are considering either short or long-term residence in a Zen community please visit: https://providencezen.org/ You can find ZM Bon Haeng's practice and retreat schedule by visiting: http://www.openmeadowzen.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher: https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org  

Zen Master Bon Yeon, Jane McLaughlin-Dobisz, began to get interested in Buddhism in college, which led to her studying abroad in Nepal during her senior year. After graduation, she moved to Los Angeles to get a Masters in Tibetan Studies but also began practicing vipassana with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. After several shorter retreats, she sat her first 90 retreat at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre MA when she was 23 and she enjoyed it so much she stayed for a second three-month sit. Zen Master Bon Yeon first heard Zen Master Seung Sahn when he came to teach at Barre, instantly connected with him as her teacher, and moved to the Providence Zen Center. Not long after she sat another 90-day retreat followed by a one-hundred day solo retreat in Maine. She moved into the Cambridge Zen Center at age 25, where she lived for the next 14 years. Zen Master Bon Yeon received Inka, or permission to teach, at 31 and began traveling and teaching in the US, Europe, and South Africa. She received transmission in April of 2000 at the age of 39 and published The Wisdom of Solitude, an account of her 100-day solo retreat, the following year. Zen Master Bon Yeon lives in the Greater Boston area with her husband and two children and continues as the Guiding Teacher of the Cambridge Zen Center. Check out her book One Hundred Days of Solitude: Losing Myself and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat https://amzn.to/2HVISZj You can find her retreat and interview schedule by visiting The Cambridge Zen Center website https://cambridgezen.org/ And you can find some of her talks and videos on her personal website https://www.jane-dobisz.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org  

Anger has a lot to teach us, if we listen to it! We operate under a common illusion that the things that make us angry lie outside of ourselves, that they are external to us. Something out there is in opposition to our need for safety and security; it threatens our comfort or position. We feel a need to defend our vulnerable selves. Anger limits us. But if we have the courage to look at our anger and its causes and to learn from it, we can develop an open heart—a heart of genuine compassion. Buddhism works to illuminate the fundamental truth of our self-nature. When anger arises, it is pointing to something. Our anger is a sign of our underlying beliefs about ourselves. It can help to reveal our constructed sense of self-identity. Anger points to fear, and the emotion of fear is an illusion. On the other hand, the feeling of fear which requires no thinking to arise comes from real danger, associated with external events that might threaten to hurt us physically. Part of this statement was written by Jules Shuzen Harris. This conversation is with Kwan Haeng Sunim about the wisdom that can be found in Anger. Kwan Haeng Sunim met Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1986 at the Cambridge Zen Center.  He moved to Providence Zen Center in 1987 and work there as House Master. 1997 he went to Korea sat a 90 day retreat. Kwan Haeng Sunim was ordained a novice monk and in 2003 I received Bhikkhu precepts. He stayed in Korea until 2012 holding various temple positions and sitting a 90-day retreat twice a year. In 2012 he moved into Providence Zen Center and become the Head Dharma Teacher.  He has been sitting the winter and summer retreats there also as Head Dharma Teacher and leading a Sunday Dharma Practice program.”    To learn more about Kwan Haeng Sunim please visit https://providencezen.org/ For intro and ad Free episodes: https://www.patreon.com/aquestforwellbeingpodcast Podcast Page: https://fitforjoy.org/podcast

Nancy Brown Hedgpeth has been a Zen student and part of the Kwan Um School of Zen since 1979. She has practiced at the Cambridge Zen Center, the Providence Zen Center, the New Haven Zen Center as well as in South Korean temples. She is a retired nurse. She helped run a farm in southern Rhode Island her husband. Nancy received inka, or permission to teach, from Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1994. She currently lives at Providence Zen Center where she serves as co-guiding teacher. You can find out more about her teaching and retreat schedule by visiting http://providencezen.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/