Zen

Good karma, bad karma, everyone knows about karma, right? Jundo and Kirk discuss what karma means, and how you count your karma points.

Find out more, including show notes for each episode, at the Zen of Everything website and at Treeleaf Zendo.

Treeleaf is an online sangha, and has been around since 2006. How does a sangha work when members don’t meet each other physically?

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Is zen competitive? Is competition a bad thing?

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Can zen make you happy? Should it?

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There are a number of precepts that have to be followed by Zen practitioners. Jundo and Kirk discuss these precepts, and how strict they are.

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There are a lot of rituals in Zen. Where do they come from? Why are they still performed? And what’s the thing about the number 108?

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Many Zen priests in Japanese Buddhism have active sex lives, others are celibate. We discuss how Buddhism treats sex, and how it makes the world go around.

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Jundo explains the importance of lineage in Zen, how the teachings have been handed down over the centuries from Zen teachers to students, in an unbroken chain.

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In this time of protests around the world, we discuss how Zen approaches injustice and protest.

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“Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures, not depending on words and letters.” With that in mind, Jundo and Kirk discuss Zen books: how to read them, what to read, and when to burn them.

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