The story of Job is one of the most recognizable stories of suffering in the Old Testament. We’ll read through the sufferings he endured and talk briefly about this story before we move onto our next Pillar; #4 Suffering/ offering our sufferings up to our Lord Jesus Christ. Where we’ll relate back to Job and his story.

In this episode we go over Original Sin, the cycle of suffering or duhkha described in Buddhist teachings as the Four Noble Truths. Pillar 3 is a necessary concept to understand Pillar 4, and this episode has a bit of irony in its conception. It was crafted while pushing through much (mild) suffering, fatigue, frustrations, technology malfunctions, etc etc... but here it is finished and ready to set us up for the next pillar. Thanks to my cousin for suffering through the making of this particularly stubborn episode with me. And also I forgot to tell everyone if you wanna yell at me for any reason (🤣🤷🏼‍♂️) Twitter is :@KofC_Crusader. God bless

A mini episode where not much is done except reading. After last nights recording I wanted to read a few of the scriptures that I feel reflect an attitude or an aspect of “zen mind”, and then I wanted to read the parable of mushin.

Me and my cousin go over the concept of a zen mind and some ideas of how following Gods will can be closely related to the idea of a zen mind, with quotes from St Francis De Sales from his book Finding Gods Will For You (which I highly recommend for any catholic with a zen mind) discussing his idea of holy complacency. Strap in! It’ll be a fun good episode! Enjoy!

In this episode we go over a quick history of zen, and then go over pillar 1: mediation. This episode was somewhat of a rush job so there could be a part two in the future. I’m going on vacation so it might be a while before another episode gets made, or maybe not. Who knows. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Introduction Pilot episode to the Catholic Zen Mind podcast. In this episode I give you a little of my story, an overview of what I plan to do here, and an outline of what I call the 5 Pillars of Zen Catholicism or more aptly named; Catholic with a Zen Mind. 1. Meditation 2. ZEN MIND 3. Original suffering (sin) 4. Suffering and Detachment 5. reincarnation vs. beatific vision. Future episodes I will cover each one more thoroughly. ENJOY and please show some love 👍🏻 share and follow