Sit, Breathe, Bow

By Ian White Maher

What's Sit, Breathe, Bow about?

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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Sit, Breathe, Bow episodes:

06.08.2021
Ian White Maher
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.
06.01.2021
Rev. Teijo Munnich
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.
05.25.2021
Rev. Liên Shutt
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 meditation.
03.31.2021
Koen Vermeulen, JDPSN
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?
03.25.2021
Sosan Theresa Flynn
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.
03.12.2021
Chimyo Atkinson
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.
03.05.2021
Dojin Sarah Emerson
When we are being choice-full, we are able to live into our values, we can live into the things we care about.
02.23.2021
Zen Master Bon Shim (Aleksandra Porter)
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.
02.12.2021
Vanessa Zuisei Goddard
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.
02.02.2021
Myozen Joan Amaral
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 make...
01.26.2021
Lizzie Coombs, JDPSN
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?
01.12.2021
Tenku Ruff, Osho
The challenges of the pandemic can provide the opportunity for us to see deeply into the many ways that we can connect with others.
01.05.2021
Matthew Kozan Palevsky
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.
12.29.2020
Bàrbara Pardo, JDPSN
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.
12.22.2020
Charlie Korin Pokorny
Everything is Included Here. Practice isn't about finding the perfect situation, it is about welcoming what is present and not making it wrong.
12.15.2020
Daigaku Rummé
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.
12.08.2020
Adam Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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...
11.24.2020
Knud Rosenmayr, JDPSN
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.
11.17.2020
Jiri (George) Hazlbauer, JDPSN
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 have the chance, please...
11.10.2020
Ellen Jikai Birx, Roshi
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 all the while following them into the...
11.03.2020
Zen Master Dae Bong (Rebroadcast)
This is a rebroadcast of an episode recorded with Zen Master Dae Bong in March of 2019.
10.27.2020
Rev. Kokyo Henkel
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?
10.20.2020
Arne Schaefer, JDPSN
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 likes and dislikes,...
10.19.2020
Arne Schaefer, JDPSN
Arne Schaefer, JDPSN, began practicing in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition — Diamond Way — in 1990. But in 1992, he sat a two-day retreat with Zen Master Seung Sahn in Berlin and has practiced with the Kwan Um School ever...
10.13.2020
Karin Ryuku Kempe, Roshi
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 with other human beings in an...
10.13.2020
Karin Ryuku Kempe
Karin Ryuku Kempe, Roshi began practicing Zen in 1971 at the Rochester Zen Center with Philip Kapleau Roshi and later with Toni Packer. In 1997, Karin received jukai from Shishin Wick Roshi, dharma heir of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, at the...
10.06.2020
Kotatsu John Bailes
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...
09.29.2020
Rev. Shinshu Roberts
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 Buddha-field.
09.29.2020
Shinshu Roberts
Rev. Shinshu Roberts is co-founder and teacher, with Rev. Daijaku Kinst, of Ocean Gate Zen Center in Capitola, CA. She is a Dharma heir of Sojun Weitsman Roshi, Abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center, in the Soto Zen lineage of...
09.22.2020
Rev. Kinrei Bassis
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.
09.15.2020
Hye Tong Sunim
This meditation practice, if you have faith, will lead to world peace.
09.08.2020
Zen Master Jeong Ji (Anita Feng)
Zen Master Jeong Ji, Anita Feng, invites us to meet the moment with clarity, compassion, truth, and a fitting function.
09.01.2020
Haju Sunim
Everyone Counts
08.25.2020
Sallie Tisdale
Our Ideal is Authenticity
08.18.2020
Andrzej Stec, JDPSN
Sincerity is Everything
08.10.2020
Meido Moore Roshi
You Can't Wash Off Blood With Blood
08.04.2020
Myong Hae Sunim, JDPS (rebroadcast)
If you give up, then what?
07.28.2020
Dr. Catherine Anraku Hondorp, Sensei
Remembering Our Humanity
07.21.2020
Haemin Sunim
Acceptance of What Is
07.14.2020
Shinge Sherry Chayat, Roshi
The Richness Comes When You Get Out of the Way
07.07.2020
Zen Master Hae Kwang
Everything is Completely Open
10.03.2019
Zen Master Jok Um
We Co-Shape the Space Together
09.26.2019
Zen Master Dae Kwan
Don't Say Difficult, Just Do It
09.19.2019
Zen Master Bon Soeng
It's Not a Matter of Perfection
09.12.2019
Reirin Alheidis Gumbel
Starting A New Habit
09.05.2019
Abby Mushin Terris
This is a Way of Life
09.01.2019
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07.18.2019
Zen Master Bon Haeng (Mark Houghton)
What Is This Together Action?
07.11.2019
Kim Hoben Hansen
When We Put The Dharma First
07.04.2019
Mitra Bishop, Roshi
It Shows Us Where We're Caught Then It Sets Us Free

What's Sit, Breathe, Bow about?

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Sit, Breathe, Bow episodes:

Ian White Maher

Rev. Teijo Munnich

Rev. Liên Shutt

Koen Vermeulen, JDPSN

Sosan Theresa Flynn

Chimyo Atkinson

Dojin Sarah Emerson

Zen Master Bon Shim (Aleksandra Porter)

Vanessa Zuisei Goddard

Myozen Joan Amaral

Lizzie Coombs, JDPSN

Tenku Ruff, Osho

Matthew Kozan Palevsky

Bàrbara Pardo, JDPSN

Charlie Korin Pokorny

Daigaku Rummé

Adam Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

Knud Rosenmayr, JDPSN

Jiri (George) Hazlbauer, JDPSN

Ellen Jikai Birx, Roshi

Zen Master Dae Bong (Rebroadcast)

Rev. Kokyo Henkel

Arne Schaefer, JDPSN

Arne Schaefer, JDPSN

Karin Ryuku Kempe, Roshi

Karin Ryuku Kempe

Kotatsu John Bailes

Rev. Shinshu Roberts

Shinshu Roberts

Rev. Kinrei Bassis

Hye Tong Sunim

Zen Master Jeong Ji (Anita Feng)

Haju Sunim

Sallie Tisdale

Andrzej Stec, JDPSN

Meido Moore Roshi

Myong Hae Sunim, JDPS (rebroadcast)

Dr. Catherine Anraku Hondorp, Sensei

Haemin Sunim

Shinge Sherry Chayat, Roshi

Zen Master Hae Kwang

Zen Master Jok Um

Zen Master Dae Kwan

Zen Master Bon Soeng

Reirin Alheidis Gumbel

Abby Mushin Terris

Sit, Breathe, Bow survey

Zen Master Bon Haeng (Mark Houghton)

Kim Hoben Hansen

Mitra Bishop, Roshi