Podcasts about kobun chino

Bob Watkins and his wife Sandy arrived at Tassajara not long after we bought it and were there for nine months. We hated to see them go. Bob was the work leader in the first practice period and until he departed. Later he was ordained by Kobun Chino and with Kobun co-founded Hokkyoji in Arroyo Seco above Taos, NM. In this podcast I read a piece I wrote on Bob after he died in 2016. It includes many of his memories of Shunryu Suzuki and Kobun Chino.

Michael Stusser founded the Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary in Freestone CA with it's hot cedar enzyme baths. In this podcast he talks about being an apprentice with master gardener Alan Chadwick and with the head gardener of Myoshinji in Kyoto, meeting Shunryu Suzuki, studying with Kobun Chino and Chogyam Trungpa, gardening for years at the Farallones Institute in Occidental CA and more.

Vanja Palmers is a Zen teacher who was at the SFZC centers for years, ordained by Richard Baker, transmission from Kobun Chino. He talks about his life, his way-seeking mind story, work with animal rights, and psychedelics, and dangerous hang gliding. He has a center in the Alps near Lucerne named Felsentor and the Ecumenical House of Silence he and Brother David Steindl-rast founded in Austria. This is an encore presentation of a June 2020 podcast.

Stephan Bodian runs an annual school for awakening. In this podcast he talks about his spiritual path, his teachers including Shunryu Suzuki, Kobun Chino, Taizan Maezumi, Sogyal, and Jean Klein. He's a marriage and family therapist but mainly a teacher of awakening. His website is stephanbodian.org.

Willem Malten came from Holland to the SFZC in the mid-seventies. In 1983 he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and, among other things, started the Cloud Cliff Bakery. He talks herein about that, about his anti-nuke work, Ayahuasca ventures, relationship with Kobun Chino and more.

Der Impuls wurde gegeben am 29. Mai 2022 im Rahmen der https://www.felsentor.ch/offene-meditation (Offenen Meditation). Maggie started Zen practice in China in 2011, began Soto Zen practice in 2012 as student of Tenshin Zenki Reb Anderson. Ordained as Zen priest 2018. Regular Zen practitioner with Zen Master Vanja Palmers who is a dharma heir of Kobun Chino, co-leading Thursday evening meditation at Zendo am Fluss.

Der Impuls wurde gegeben am 10. April 2022 im Rahmen der https://www.felsentor.ch/offene-meditation (Offenen Meditation). Maggie started Zen practice in China in 2011, began Soto Zen practice in 2012 as student of Tenshin Zenki Reb Anderson. Ordained as Zen priest 2018. Regular Zen practitioner with Zen Master Vanja Palmers who is a dharma heir of Kobun Chino, co-leading Thursday evening meditation at Zendo am Fluss.

Paula Jones first became a student of Jikoji founder Kobun Chino when she attended the Santa Cruz Zendo in the mid-seventies. A year or two later she, with her young daughter, moved into the residence with a changing group of caretakers and friends, one of whom she later married. During and after that time she attended sesshins at Hidden Villa with Kobun's students from Los Altos, including Angie Boissevain, who some years later became her teacher. In the years that followed, she finished her MA in Creative Writing and began teaching poetry, literature and writing in colleges and private workshops in Santa Cruz, the Mojave Dessert and San Diego, where she and Balin now live. She received ordination and transmission from Angie and has since taught at several Jikoji sesshins. She is a teacher at Floating Zendo San Diego and is now one of the teachers at Floating Zendo San Jose.

"When I got here, I wanted Brad to tell me how to live my life, and he said to just sit, and offered some reading suggestions; Suzuki, Uchiyama, Kobun Chino, and Dogen. And then I wanted Suzuki Roshi, Kobun Chino Roshi, and Uchiyama Roshi to tell me how to live my life through their books. And they said to just sit and talked about Dogen. And then I wanted Dogen to tell me how to live my life. And he said to just sit. It was at this point that I started to notice a pattern... And now I'm honestly curious and sincerely excited to see what tomorrow morning's sit will be like." - Colin Young In a meta commentary on on his own personal journey, Colin walks us through the process of writing five drafts for one great talk with insightful comedic commentary and a knack for self inquisitiveness all along the way. What do we do when our life's narrative runs itself out and we realize we might not be so special after all (at least not in the ways we thought...)?? What do we say when words don't work in the ways we think they should?? And while we're at it, why was the pandemic (somewhat awkwardly) such a perfect place for practice??? And in this new land of internet Zen and Zoomdos, if we're not local should we sit with internet superstar sanghas like ACZC, or should we sit with whatever local group is nearby because that's just the right thing to do (spoiler alert, yes & yes! And what was the question again)?? Find out here!

Paula Jones first became a student of Jikoji founder Kobun Chino when she attended the Santa Cruz Zendo in the mid-seventies. A year or two later she, with her young daughter, moved into the residence with a changing group of caretakers and friends, one of whom she later married. During and after that time she attended sesshins at Hidden Villa with Kobun's students from Los Altos, including Angie Boissevain, who some years later became her teacher. In the years that followed, she finished her MA in Creative Writing and began teaching poetry, literature and writing in colleges and private workshops in Santa Cruz, the Mojave Dessert and San Diego, where she and Balin now live. She received ordination and transmission from Angie and has since taught at several Jikoji sesshins. She is a teacher at Floating Zendo San Diego and is now one of the teachers at Floating Zendo San Jose.

Paula Jones first became a student of Jikoji founder Kobun Chino when she attended the Santa Cruz Zendo in the mid-seventies. A year or two later she, with her young daughter, moved into the residence with a changing group of caretakers and friends, one of whom she later married. During and after that time she attended sesshins at Hidden Villa with Kobun's students from Los Altos, including Angie Boissevain, who some years later became her teacher. In the years that followed, she finished her MA in Creative Writing and began teaching poetry, literature and writing in colleges and private workshops in Santa Cruz, the Mojave Dessert and San Diego, where she and Balin now live. She received ordination and transmission from Angie and has since taught at several Jikoji sesshins. She is a teacher at Floating Zendo San Diego and is now one of the teachers at Floating Zendo San Jose.

“Putting a nice label like ‘Buddha Nature’ on it makes you feel a different way towards it. You don't feel like it's something you need to fight against. I don't know how you felt all your life, but all my life I'd felt like circumstances are something I need to fight against, circumstances were always my enemy. And then I meet Nishijima Roshi who said, ‘Just follow circumstances,’ and I'm like, ‘I don't want to follow circumstances, circumstances suck!’ But I was following this teacher who said, ‘Circumstances are you. You are the circumstances.’ So to think of circumstances in a nice way is also to think of yourself in a nice way and not to pit yourself against it. Instead of following the illusion that I'm something apart from the circumstances, I say, okay, I am the circumstances in which I find myself. Then to make the further move of calling it ‘Buddha nature’ is a way of seeing it as something that's not bad and not even indifferent. It's something better than indifferent.” - Brad Warner Brad Warner brings us deep discussions and choice readings from Kobun Chino and Dogen on Buddha Nature, that elusive concept beyond concepts where everything and everyone is already enlightened just like you. Is it just pretty words? Is it as empty as they say? And/or is there something ultimately there we can count on and connect to? Find out here!

"The thinking mind can do incredible stuff. So it gets very full of itself and decides it can figure out a thought that will that will sum up the whole damn business of reality. And maybe one of these days there will be a theory of everything. But you'll still be left with, "I just read a thing. And that doesn't help me with my sadness..." - Brad WarnerRiffing off a remark from his conversation with Stephen Batchelor, Brad tackles the question of whether Buddhism is a form of materialism, idealism, or something else entirely. With a deep dive into Western Philosophy and a little help from Dogen, the Lankavatara Sutra, and Kobun Chino, Brad looks at how and what we humans think about the world and whether all this thinking is actually doing us any good.

Sensei Dean Williams is the guiding teacher of the Crooked River Zen Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Dean received dharma transmission in 2014 from Shoho Michael Newhall, the abbot of Jikoji Zen Center in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California, making him a dharma holder in the Kobun Chino lineage.

Brad Warner shares poetic passages from the great kindly grand uncle of our lineage, Kobun Chino. A true Beginner’s Only podcast, as long time practitioners discuss the ins and outs of practice; why Dogen was anti-breath counting, what is perfect posture, how to tame your inner fascist, where decision making comes from, why itching is a total scam, and so much more.

Emma Roy brings us a piece by Kobun Chino about Dogen's Advice for Sitting. Our sangha has a bit of a Zen crush on Kobun lately and in this one we can see exactly why. It's a simple piece, mostly just about zazen. But as we've seen, Kobun has a way of being deceptively simple. Embedded in simple advice and encouragement is a wealth of insight, ironies, and koan like contradictions, with mic drop poetic moments that left us alternately dumbfounded or erupting in laughter, all managing to sound warm and comforting in his hands. From there the sangha picks it up and goes personal with their own reflections on practice, opening up a free form and wide ranging discussion that becomes a verbal zazen of its own.

Somewhere in between a rule and a riddle lies the Zen vows. Dave traces their origin from poor Buddha who was just trying to keep the peace with his unruly monks by giving them a few rules (ok, more like a few hundred…), up to the modern Zen version that starts each vow with the caveat that nothing about the self or the universe is comprehensible, and by the way these rules are impossible, so let's promise to uphold them and pay very close attention to what happens. Dave gives a thorough reading of various translations and understandings of each precept, and then reads from Kobun Chino's talks on the subject, where he makes the case that rather than be seen as rules, they are a constant opportunity to work out the relationship between your self and the universe. Naturally, Dave also breaks his precepts in the talk itself by freely discussing his own past mistakes, and the sangha talks about why it can be so liberating to get things wrong and let people down. 

In a loose and wide ranging Q&A style discussion, Brad takes on some big questions and gets deep with the sangha. With topics ranging from how to deal with anger, to what the heck does “form is emptiness, emptiness is form” mean, to practical tips on zazen posture. we delve into the heart of what zazen and being human are all about. Is finding our Buddha nature as simple as feeling the sensation in our joints? And speaking of joints and sensation, what do we do if zazen won’t stop hurting? It’s a talk about what’s so damn special about being human, what happens when you sit yourself into stillness, and practical tips on how to let your body take you there. Plus a reading from Kobun Chino on koans at the end just for good measure!

Brad Warner reads from Kobun Chino’s “Life and Death” and sparks a lively discussion about the end of science and whether we even really understand what’s happening in our lives right now, let alone what happens in an afterlife. The sangha discusses life and death as the present moment, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, whether our culture has overly sheltered itself from confronting death, whether brambles are intentionally killing sheep, and in the end a cup of hot chocolate brings Jared to the moment of life and death itself.

Andy Acker began practicing and studying Zen in the early 2000's in Minnesota and in Boulder, Colorado. He is a resident practitioner at Jikoji and is ordained as a priest in the lineage of Kobun Chino, Roshi. He received a B.A. in Psychology and Religion from Naropa University and a Master's in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Five Branches University. 

Tokuho Cliff Isberg received dharma transmission from Shoho Michael Newhall in 2015. A longtime student of Kobun Chino, he serves as one of Jikoji's oversight managers.

On this week's Coffee & Comics, Todd and Taylor could not have picked more different books. Taylor tours through the gothic, occult, noir mystery, Black Monday Murders. Todd reads The Zen of Steve Jobs which tells the story of Steve Jobs relationship with Kobun Chino and Zen Buddhism.Buy "The Black Monday Murders"https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/the-black-monday-murdersBuy "The Zen of Steve Jobs"https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Steve-Jobs-Caleb-Melby-ebook/dp/B006N7RMMS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522850730&sr=8-1&keywords=zen+of+steve+jobs See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.