Podcasts about just sit

Jundo and Kirk talk about zen hermits, and life in a small zen temple. Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org) Amongst White Clouds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH2ozq65yHQ) (film) Road to Heaven (https://amzn.to/2VoSPrz) (book) Seek Nothing, Just Sit (https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/worldprime/20210717/3016100/) Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com). To get in touch, send an email to podcast@zen-of-everything.com (mailto:podcast@zen-of-everything.com). If you like the podcast, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Biet was born broke, lost all her loved ones, and eventually went numb to survive. But being numb didn’t just block the pain, it blocked the joy. It was up to her to FEEL life again-- to make radical changes to not just change her world, but the world of everyone she would meet. Biet fused her passions of music and meditation together, redefining what it means to meditate and how we do it. She breaks down the Law of the 4th way, Divided Attention, and how to be here now, feeling it all in this rollercoaster of life. Guest info:  @guidedbyBiet Biet’s Best Selling Book, Don’t Just Sit there. Spirituality of Dirty Secrets: A Full Immersive Music Experience to dive deep into your psyche to understand your “secrets”. Get your ticket here: Code: LISA for $25 off. Check Biet out on Spotify! Instagram: The Truthiest Life on instagram @thetruthiestlife Host @Lisahayim To support TTL, subscribe, follow, or share episodes with family and friends who could benefit If you’re loving TTL, Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-truthiest-life/id1535516122?uo=2 Guest submissions: e-mail your story to hello@truthiestlife.com Edited by Houston Tilley Intro Jingle by Alyssa Chase aka @findyoursails Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

In this message, we look at the difference between Mary and Martha's response to Jesus in Luke 10 and what we can learn about the posture we should take in this season.

 “the being part of us is what… is lost when we're doing all of the ‘doing’  part.” -Shirley Owens    Oftentimes, we think that by sitting idly by and doing nothing we are not being productive. We feel that we’re losing precious opportunities, ventures, resources, and time. However, even more precious than these is losing our beingness. Hectic schedules and busy days turn us on autopilot. Shirley’s reflection on her convo with Michael Neeley highlights the importance and the need for humans to slow down, ‘be bored’,  and really connect with themselves, even just for a moment. Join in and  discover the amazing power of boredom.    Let’s Go Create! with Shirley:  Website  Email  Facebook Twitter  Instagram  LinkedIn  Telephone:  480-570-5720 Book:  Get What You Want From Your Man: A Guide to Creating the Relationship You Deserve    Highlights:  00:29 Boredom is a Buddy 01:30 The Nonstop Going-Doing Routine of Humans  02:20 Just Sit in Silence 03:20 Get a Mindset Shift on Boredom 04:28 Set a Time to be ‘Bored’

Episode #40 marks the long awaited return of Marcus X. Last season's "Black His-Story Month" episode (episode #16) was one of the biggest of season...so it was only right to bring him back for round 2. Just #SIT back a enjoy the view. You're only "Stuck In Traffic."

Episode #40 marks the long awaited return of Marcus X. Last season's "Black His-Story Month" episode (episode #16) was one of the biggest of season...so it was only right to bring him back for round 2. Just #SIT back a enjoy the view. You're only "Stuck In Traffic."

How can meditation help you cope with never-ending demands and stress at work? Listen in as David tries it and explores how startups and corporations alike are seeing (and feeling) the benefits. Featuring: Loren Brill, CEO Sweet Loren’s; Sukey and Beth Novogratz, co-authors of Just Sit; and Mike Fenlon and Adam Clayman, from PwC. Transcript: https://bit.ly/2J00Ewc

Two things are evident about this week’s pod – hell, this entire podcast as a whole: 1) we are never too far from talking about poop, and 2) even when we seemingly have no direction whatsoever, we can really make a fun/nonsense episode about it. That’s the best I could come up with as far … Continue reading “Goopy Poopy!”…or…”Just Sit and Let It Go” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reallythoughpod/support

Today I'm joined by Sukey and Elizabeth Novogratz, meditation masters and the authors behind the ah-mazing everything guide to meditation, Just Sit.  Elizabeth and Sukey Novogratz have traveled the world to study meditation in every kind of classroom, from Lakota sweat lodges to Tibet House, from ashrams to vision quests to Oneness retreats. They have learned from many renowned teachers, including Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das, Ram Dass, Amma, Tony Robbins, and the monks at One World Academy in Chennai, India. They are also the authors of an amazing meditation guide, Just Sit. Their inspiration for writing this book is drawn from friends, readers, and complete strangers who echoed their own questions about how to take the first steps toward making meditation part of a more mindful, reflective, and joyful life.  On today's show, we talk about things like: -their journeys into meditation -the physiological and psychological benefits to meditation -how to start your own meditation practice -the best time, place, and positioning for meditation -how to deal with wandering thoughts -meditation retreats -... so much more! If you've ever been curious about starting your own meditation practice but aren't sure where to start, be sure to give this podcast a listen and check out their book, Just Sit.  ----------------- Find Sukey and Elizabeth here:  https://justsit.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/justsitthebook/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/justsitthebook/ ----------------- Find me here: IG: https://www.instagram.com/em_dunc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/em_dunc https://www.emilyduncanfitness.com  

I would like to criticize some Soto Zen Teachers for how we may be teaching Shikantaza (I know that all the Soto Teachers fully understand what I say. My point is merely whether we are conveying the message clearly enough). Yes, we teach the importance of sitting in a balanced way, be it in Lotus, Seiza, on a chair or the like. We may show students how to place the mind on the breath, the Hara, how to "return to the posture" or sit boundlessly or some other way. We may tell folks about "opening the hand of thought", letting thoughts and emotions go without getting caught in them. Yes, we emphasize that our way is "Goalless" sitting, or "good for nothing", and that one should leave at the door thoughts of "gaining enlightenment" or some extra-ordinary state ... ... but do we emphasize enough how Extra-Ordinary (beyond all small human weighing of "ordinary or extra-ordinary") Sitting Zazen Truly is? Are we too focused on the mechanics of sitting (as important as such is), and not on the Wondrous Embodiment of Buddha which sitting manifests? Do we teach that a moment of Zazen is Buddha Realized, All Fulfilled, Holy-Wholey-Whole that completes and allows all of life? Are we afraid of sounding too starry eyed about Zazen? Do we point students sufficiently to the Timelessness of sitting for a time, that Zazen is the One and Only Place to Be in that Moment of Sitting, holding all the Sutras? Do we teach that Zazen is a Sacred Complete Act? A Moment of Sitting As Enlightened Sitting, Gainless-Enlightenment-Gained? Perhaps we are too focused on presenting Zazen as "just sitting" without getting to the heart of sitting as "Just All Reality, Every Mountain and Stone, All the Buddhas and Ancestors Sitting This Sitting"? Master Dogen, when writing of Zazen, would remind us (this from Zanma-O-Zanmai. It makes my words seem quite understated!): Now crossing the legs of the human skin, flesh, bones, and marrow, one crosses the legs of the king of samādhis samādhi. The World Honored One always maintains sitting with legs crossed; and to the disciples he correctly transmits sitting with legs crossed; and to the humans and gods he teaches sitting with legs crossed. The mind seal correctly transmitted by the seven buddhas is this. The Buddha Śākyamuni, sitting with legs crossed under the bodhi tree, passed fifty small kalpas, passed sixty kalpas, passed countless kalpas. Sitting with legs crossed for twenty-one days, sitting cross-legged for one time — this is turning the wheel of the wondrous dharma; this is the buddha’s proselytizing of a lifetime. There is nothing lacking. This is the yellow roll and vermillion roller [that hold all the Sutras and Commentaries]. The buddha seeing the buddha is this time. This is precisely the time when beings attain buddhahood. He pulls no punches. And now turning from Teachers to Students, I wag my finger a bit more. So many (most?) who try Shikantaza for a time do not truly understand what it means to be wholly still, to not need to run after the next diversion or teaching or practice or book or entertainment. Or, they misunderstand our "goalless" sitting as some kind of complacency. My biggest "complaint" about folks? Most find it so hard to drop the "running here and there, chasing this and that" in life and "Just Sit" in Wholeness, "Just Sit" Buddha. Most are so used to looking for the answers "somewhere over the next hill" that they can't stop running, looking for the "next shiny thing". (Like the eye looking all around for the eye) Thus, they abandon the Practice too soon, running after the next promising thing, and the next. I have spoken about that many times before: http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...-s-NEXT%21-%21 Oh, some folks "get it", what it truly means to find Stillness amid both life's stillness and motion, Silence that sings as quiet or music or the noise of bombs exploding. But other folks don't "get it", or take it that we are pushing merely complacency, resignation and passivity, which is not the case. We are not preaching slogans from greeting cards, not tranquilized dullness, not a foresaking of vibrant curiosity and questioning, not prescribing a drug to bring numbness ... but Crystal Clarity and Wholeness. Rising up from the cushion, whether lighting incense or changing a baby diaper, in the temple or the office, in a forest or the city streets ... we get done what needs to be done, move forward though no place to go. One might then be able to manifest that same Ordinary-Extra-Ordinary Wondrous Embodiment of Buddha, Fully Realized, All Fulfilled, Holy-Wholey-Whole, holding all Timeless-Time & Space, the One and Only Place to Be, a Sacred Act Complete ... in every moment and small action of life. Please visit the forum thread here!

I came across a discussion on the internet this week about "how to Shikantaza" ... and much good and solid advice was given. Some folks follow the breath, some "Just Sit" in boundless spaciousness, some advised this or that on the posture and letting thoughts go. All wise and good, and talk of posture, focus and such are all a necessary setting of the stage. However, in my view (and that is all it is, and hopefully a viewless view too) SOMETHING VITAL WAS LACKING AND LEFT OUT OF THE CONVERSATION, something without which Zazen is perhaps left incomplete and lacking ... ... TO WIT, THAT NOTHING IS EVER LACKING, EVER MISSING, EVER INCOMPLETE, EVER NOT FULLY HELD AND FULLY REALIZED IN A MOMENT OF ZAZEN! A moment of sitting is THE BUDDHA, THE PURE LAND, NIRVANA ATTAINED! Each instant of Zazen is the only act, the only place to be, in and holding all time and space in that moment! The meaning of that may confuse some folks ... but those who don't get it JUST DON'T GET IT (in my view and viewless anyway)! What don't they get? That to realize that one is never, from the outset, in need of change is an earthshaking CHANGE! There is absolutely nothing about you and the universe (not two) to add or take away, and tasting that there is "nothing to add" is an vital addition! Just Sitting to-the-marrow, radically dropping all goals, judgments, dropping all desire to get somewhere and attain a realization ... gets one somewhere, and a revolutionary realization! Truly understanding that everything is completely beyond need for change is a complete change, and finding that there was never a place to get to is finally getting somewhere. Posture, breath, not grabbing onto or stirring up thoughts, living by the Precepts ... all are vital to our Way. Yet, neither are they sufficient. Zazen is not some "method", some "process" or "recipe". There is no "method" for there is "no goal" or destination! Why? By sitting the Wholly Holy Whole without need for change ... there is thus the most radical change of no longer wishing for change or needing change amid the every changing changeless ... thereby Shikantaza is the perfect medicine for the dis-ease and dis-satisfaction of Dukkha. SHIKANTAZA MUST BE SAT AS THE ONE AND ONLY PRACTICE NEEDED AND ALL COMPLETED. In fact, rising from the cushion, all of life's acts ... the most mundane ... can thus be encountered as each and all Whole and Sacred too. Likewise, daily chanting, bowing or praying are each "Shikantaza" when encountered as Wholly Holy Whole. In fact, Zazen itself ... though never less than complete ... is not enough, and all of life and ethical living is our place of practice and realization! Not one piece of life is left out as 'Shikantaza' seen for such. Yet ... we sit Shikantaza seated Zazen each day as our way is to sit. Fail to emphasize this point(in my view, and that is all it is ... hopefully viewless too) and one is just teaching meditation, milk toast, perhaps a kind of shikantaza ... but not SHIKANTAZA! A bit more to hammer this home: Please visit the forum thread here!

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