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“There's no reason sound can't be appreciated wherever you're at. It's always there. We think something has to be dramatic or highly structured, but there's always structures to find in our minds. We have that freedom in our own being to be abl
“Can we keep the goofy light heartedness of being rebel antagonists, along side the sincerity of really caring? Can we care and be funny at the same time? And you know what I've seen us do? Exactly that. And that delights me. Thank you everybod
“First, there's ‘the thing that I want to do.’ They strip that away completely. Then when we’re hollow and empty they come back and ask, ‘So now, what do you really, really want?’” - Gyokei YokoyamaGyokei pulls back the curtain on the ritual
“In order to learn something new, first you have to be confused about it. If you aren't confused about it, you already know what it is and then you're not learning anything.” - Jitsujo GauthierGreat sangha friend Jitusjo brings us hard won
“Whatever goals you accomplish, you're still the same. There's still that same emptiness - there's still something missing. There's always going to be something missing. And that's okay.” - Pedro PeresLong time sangha friend Pedro Peres rega
“Think for yourselves. Be unruly. Challenge what we tell you, Challenge what I think I know about how this place should work. That’s what all the old teachings tell us to do - even if it is kind of inconvenient to have a room full of people thi
“You can't sit motionless for 30 minutes without learning something, and when that happens day after day, we learn and we learn. Like it or not, we learn.” - Heather RossHeather opens up the Pandora’s Box of zazen and takes a hard and heali
“Liberation means being liberated from the inclination to ignore our flaws - to dismiss them, hide them, divert or disguise them.“ - Gyokei YokoyamaGyokei unravels the deeper meaning of Dharma Combat on the eve of ACZC’s first ever attempt a
“There's a freedom, a pit, a dropping off into something you don't know and don't necessarily trust… It takes a strange kind of trust to let go of everything you’ve known as you.” - Dave CuomoDave celebrates the year of the wood dragon with
“There's some discomfort there, and there's some comfort there. And when you let that go… it's quite a revolution.” - Gyokei YokoyamaGyokei gives us fully fleshed out, bare bones official Soto Zen explanations and instructions for zazen - b
“Probably the best we can train for is to get a seat at the table where our decisions are made; which is not where we're usually hanging out. Usually we’re hanging out after the fact writing propaganda to justify what we just did.” - Dave Cuomo
“There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer” - Gertrude SteinPatrick brings us the timeless tale of a Catholic kid trading his faith for the freedom of not quite knowing what
“It includes everything, no matter what. Even being depressed is part of it. That's why I don’t backslide like I used to anymore; because even if I do, I now know for certain that has weight and that's important too.” - Dave CuomoDave takes
“It’s less, yes it must be this way, and more, let's go this way together.” - Sara CampbellSara reflects on the holidays and turns the page on a new year with a simple but endless question, how do we live when we know we’re going to die? Als
“All the philosophies I grew up on were always trying to take me toward the light - be a good person, know what's going on, know how to handle things… It was always about happiness and positivity. Thats what led me here. That was the problem.”
“Maybe we don’t need take everything as gospel, or maybe taking things as gospel doesn’t always mean what we want it to mean” - Dave CuomoDave brings us a special podcast exclusive Holiday Story Time, with a dramatic reading of a somewhat ba
“A person with cloudy eyes is a person of fundamental enlightenment, a person of subtle enlightenment.” - DogenJason dives into Dogen’s treatise on the flowery delights of delusion - ‘Space Flowers,’ while discussing the inspiration behind
“If you’re not at least a little uncomfortable, you probably haven’t found whatever it is you really need to make peace with yet.” - Dave CuomoDave dives back into the paramitas to learn about patience and finds out that Buddha apparently ag
“The spring has no particular shape, and yet spring manifests naturally. Or like the moon, it just emerges, versatile and free.When something happens, nobody can really say who did it. That's why we get frustrated. Nobody can know how i
"The more you start to learn about what you are, which is absolutely completely interdependent and just a fractal of what everyone else is, the more it starts to break down.I can't hate myself. It just doesn't make sense.” - Sara CampbellF
“We don't downplay it. We don't sit here and say, ‘what I'm feeling isn't real and doesn't matter.’ It's this weird technique where it's like, no, no, go all in on it and take it very, very seriously with an enormous grain of salt.” - Dave Cuom
“If Zen's teaching me that I have inherent value just for existing, part of that whole deal is that I'm going to be doing mantras or some other wacky sh*t that I come across in six months. And I'm okay with that.” - Sara CampbellAfter findin
“You see the problems with the system, problems with teachers, and problems with yourself and realize, none of us can quite live up to what we're teaching here. But if I want do something actually good in the world, I can't think of anything mo
“Zen isn't there to sugarcoat things and cuddle you. We're not talking about being mean, we're talking about, how do we slap someone's face in the most compassionate way? (…metaphorically of course)” - Gyokei YokoyamaGyokei talks us through
“The benefit of you existing is you get to figure out what that means for yourself. And then you can come back and teach the rest of us about that. That is a generosity.” - Dave CuomoDave gifts us with a deep dive into generosity in the firs
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