Podcasts by Sit, Breathe, Bow

Sit, Breathe, Bow

Each week leading Buddhist teachers share life experiences and insights to help guide your meditation practice as well as your life off the cushion.

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Ian White Maher from 2021-06-08T09:00

This show is going on hiatus. I have taken a new job out west and I just won't have the time to keep it up. This has been a life-changing experience and I am so grateful to all of you.

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Rev. Teijo Munnich from 2021-06-01T09:00

The spiritual practice of sharing the dharma is not a form of entertainment. This is something we do to find out what life is. At the foundation of the practice is dana or generosity.

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Rev. Liên Shutt from 2021-05-25T08:00

When you’re living the precepts, when you’re living according to your values, then meditation becomes much easier because the precepts are the foundation for what it means to do the work of meditat...

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Koen Vermeulen, JDPSN from 2021-03-31T05:00

So many people are chasing after happiness like it is something that can be attained. But happiness comes and goes. How can you be with "what is" in this moment?

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Sosan Theresa Flynn from 2021-03-25T00:00

This practice invites us to be vulnerable, open, and intimate. This is incredibly challenging and requires courage, but it also is the only way to look deeply into who we are.

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Chimyo Atkinson from 2021-03-12T11:00

Living in the dharma allows us to be vulnerable and to connect with the rest of the universe. Practice dismantles the habits of trying to build up the delusions around us.

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Dojin Sarah Emerson from 2021-03-05T10:00

When we are being choice-full, we are able to live into our values, we can live into the things we care about.

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Zen Master Bon Shim (Aleksandra Porter) from 2021-02-23T10:00

How can we not be deluded? By investigating the great matter of life and death, we see what our thinking creates. By using the Four Great Vows as a guide we see more clearly how to help.

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Vanessa Zuisei Goddard from 2021-02-12T13:00

Practice is doing something with intention. You enter into a moment deliberately. You choose into it. There is a willingness to be here. It is an attitude of mind.

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Myozen Joan Amaral from 2021-02-02T09:00

There is a process of growing into our roles as students and as teachers. There is a discipline but also a willingness to play and even provoke as we find a way to live within the tradition and to ...

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Lizzie Coombs, JDPSN from 2021-01-26T09:00

Each of us has a job to do and it depends on what is happening right in front of us. There is a role we play that asks for something specific. What is your job?

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Tenku Ruff, Osho from 2021-01-12T10:00

The challenges of the pandemic can provide the opportunity for us to see deeply into the many ways that we can connect with others.

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Matthew Kozan Palevsky from 2021-01-05T10:00

Kozan shares his own journey as a priest and activist and how we can use the practice to provide a foundation for our work as people committed to healing our communities.

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Bàrbara Pardo, JDPSN from 2020-12-29T10:00

What is a great woman? The practice of Zen is about looking inward and seeing who you really are and what this life is about.

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Charlie Korin Pokorny from 2020-12-22T10:00

Everything is Included Here. Practice isn't about finding the perfect situation, it is about welcoming what is present and not making it wrong.

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Daigaku Rummé from 2020-12-15T10:00

Your life is Zen. If you try to make your life Zen, then you are adding something. Don't make distinctions, don't make differences, and live your life in the present.

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Adam Jogen Salzberg, Sensei from 2020-12-08T12:00

The essence of faith is not faith in some thing. It is not an object. It is the absence of doubt. When we are truly entrusting in the heart, there is no faith there just is no doubt. Faith is the e...

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Knud Rosenmayr, JDPSN from 2020-11-24T09:00

We are constantly trying to distract ourselves from our busy day or an uncomfortable reality. But if we don't make anything or distract ourselves, then our lives are not a problem.

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Jiri (George) Hazlbauer, JDPSN from 2020-11-17T09:00

Jiri (George) Hazlbauer, JDPSN, discusses what living in a Zen community can do for your practice. Your zen family will change you for the better, even if you can't see it in the moment. If you hav...

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Ellen Jikai Birx, Roshi from 2020-11-10T09:00

Ellen Birx, Roshi, is fully immersed and fully committed to both Zen Buddhism and Christianity. She doesn't collapse either into the other but allows the two paths the full integrity of their truth...

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Zen Master Dae Bong (Rebroadcast) from 2020-11-03T09:00

This is a rebroadcast of an episode recorded with Zen Master Dae Bong in March of 2019.

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Rev. Kokyo Henkel from 2020-10-27T12:00

How do we balance our practice between the Zen principle of "no-gaining" and the deep and strong aspiration within Mahayana Buddhism to realize awakening for the benefit of all beings?

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Arne Schaefer, JDPSN from 2020-10-20T05:00

When you make the experience of a completely quiet mind, you gain an understanding of what we talk about when we say you can be free. Usually we are just dragged around by our opinions, by our like...

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Karin Ryuku Kempe, Roshi from 2020-10-13T09:00

Karin Ryuku Kempe, Roshi reminds us there is a danger in the koan path where we can skate through without addressing the basics of becoming a grown-up adult capable of practicing with the precepts ...

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Kotatsu John Bailes from 2020-10-06T09:00

The power of the bodhisattva is found in the unleashing of the virtue of our lives. The virtue of our lives is the only authority that any of us have. Our practice is to live in a way that is prese...

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Rev. Shinshu Roberts from 2020-09-29T09:00

We live in a Buddha-field that has delusion, greed, and hate and we should strive to overcome this by entering the Bodhisattva path. We do this to enact more and more helpful energy to heal this Bu...

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Rev. Kinrei Bassis from 2020-09-22T05:00

Can you see how the practice is impacting your life? Are you looking to see how you can use the practice to change it? This will give you a good indication of the nature of your practice.

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Hye Tong Sunim from 2020-09-15T05:00

This meditation practice, if you have faith, will lead to world peace.

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Zen Master Jeong Ji (Anita Feng) from 2020-09-08T10:00

Zen Master Jeong Ji, Anita Feng, invites us to meet the moment with clarity, compassion, truth, and a fitting function.

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Haju Sunim from 2020-09-01T09:00

Everyone Counts

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Sallie Tisdale from 2020-08-25T09:00

Our Ideal is Authenticity

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Andrzej Stec, JDPSN from 2020-08-18T09:00

Sincerity is Everything

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Meido Moore Roshi from 2020-08-10T21:34:15

You Can't Wash Off Blood With Blood

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Myong Hae Sunim, JDPS (rebroadcast) from 2020-08-04T09:00

If you give up, then what?

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Dr. Catherine Anraku Hondorp, Sensei from 2020-07-28T10:41:04

Remembering Our Humanity

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Haemin Sunim from 2020-07-21T08:00

Acceptance of What Is

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Shinge Sherry Chayat, Roshi from 2020-07-14T09:00

The Richness Comes When You Get Out of the Way

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Zen Master Hae Kwang from 2020-07-07T09:00

Everything is Completely Open

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Zen Master Jok Um from 2019-10-03T07:00

We Co-Shape the Space Together

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Zen Master Dae Kwan from 2019-09-26T07:00

Don't Say Difficult, Just Do It

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Zen Master Bon Soeng from 2019-09-19T07:00

It's Not a Matter of Perfection

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Reirin Alheidis Gumbel from 2019-09-12T07:00

Starting A New Habit

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Abby Mushin Terris from 2019-09-05T17:26:26

This is a Way of Life

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Sit, Breathe, Bow survey from 2019-09-01T22:02:31

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Zen Master Bon Haeng (Mark Houghton) from 2019-07-18T07:00

What Is This Together Action?

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Kim Hoben Hansen from 2019-07-11T07:00

When We Put The Dharma First

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Mitra Bishop, Roshi from 2019-07-04T08:00

It Shows Us Where We're Caught Then It Sets Us Free

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Ilan Luttenberg from 2019-06-27T17:39:29

Choosing the Path of Liberation

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Myong Hae Sunim, JDPS from 2019-06-14T15:59:54

If you give up, then what?

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Zen Master Bon Yeon (Jane Dobisz) from 2019-06-06T07:00

What Are You Doing Right Now?

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Yonathan Dominitz from 2019-05-30T07:00

Glimpsing Another Dimension of Life

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Acharya Fleet Maull from 2019-05-23T05:00

Taking Radical Responsibility

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Paul Park from 2019-05-16T12:46:48

When The String Is Too Tight

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Lama Willa Miller from 2019-05-08T22:47:54

The Body is the Divine Door to Wakefulness

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Einav Rosenblit from 2019-05-01T19:24:43

Loving the Body You Have

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Ofosu Jones-Quartey (Born I) from 2019-04-25T18:32

Pay Attention To Your Life With Kindness

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Kate Lila Wheeler from 2019-04-18T15:25:21

Attuning Our Vision to the Goodness of Self and Others

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Yuval Ido Tal from 2019-04-09T05:00

We Should Be Much Lazier

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Myong An Sunim, JDPS from 2019-04-03T22:40:22

The Practice Changes Us

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Phil Jones from 2019-03-27T17:10:49

Insight and Ethical Living

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Beth Kanji Goldring from 2019-03-19T09:00

The Thing That Is Holding Us

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Zen Master Dae Bong Sunim from 2019-03-12T03:30

What is the Root of Our Perceptions?

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Stephen Fulder from 2019-03-05T04:30

The Garden Has Thorns and Flowers

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Kim Allen from 2019-02-26T04:30

Giving Your Heart a Path

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Zen Master Bon Hae from 2019-02-20T14:56:14

Seeing the Person in Front of You

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Sister Clare Carter from 2019-01-15T15:21:57

Listening to the Call

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Jay Rinsen Weik Sensei from 2019-01-07T18:26:02

Your Practice Matters

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Shaila Catherine from 2018-12-19T02:59:27

Cleaning Up the Defilements of the Mind

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Gregory Kramer from 2018-12-12T03:18:04

The Relational Dimension of Emptiness

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Josh Bartok, Roshi from 2018-12-05T20:27:31

Becoming a Pastoral Presence to the World

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Nancy Brown Hedgpeth, JDPSN from 2018-11-27T13:56:13

Coming Together To Inquire

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Robert Kando Cornell from 2018-11-20T03:18:27

The Near Enemy of Enlightenment

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Carlos Montero, JDPSN from 2018-11-15T02:38:42

The Wisdom We All Have

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Joshin Byrnes, Sensei from 2018-11-06T23:18:45

Taking responsibility for the world together

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Shoda Shonin from 2018-10-30T20:50:28

Stripping away the self

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Genjo Marinello, Roshi from 2018-10-24T21:10:20

Our depth is vast and boundless

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Kathy Park, JDPSN from 2018-10-17T12:59:33

Cause And Effect Are Clear

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Santikaro from 2018-10-10T12:56:29

The Necessity of Going Through Our Dukkha

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Gesshin Claire Greenwood from 2018-10-02T15:44:06

What Does It Mean To Be Yourself?

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Melissa Myozen Blacker, Roshi from 2018-09-25T03:30

Staying Present as a Way of Life

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Zen Master Bon Shim from 2018-09-18T04:30

Transform your suffering into joy

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Taigen Dan Leighton from 2018-09-11T16:53:27

What question has led you to face the wall?

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James Ford, Roshi from 2018-09-04T03:30

An Invitation to Intimacy

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Florence Caplow from 2018-08-28T03:30

The eyes and hands of Quan Yin

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Jason Quinn, JDPSN from 2018-08-20T00:48

What is my job as a human being?

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Leigh Brasington from 2018-08-05T23:53

Exploring the jhanas

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Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin from 2018-08-05T20:58

Uniting people through sound

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Zen Master Soeng Hyang (Bobby Rhodes) from 2018-08-01T18:32

Listening For Your Vow

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