The Jizo-an Zen Community Podcast

By Jizo-an Zen Community

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The podcast currently has 143 episodes available.

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September 04, 2014 Freedom from Choice
On the way toward truly being "Free" all "choices" must cease to exist except one, the "choice to be free". What is freedom? "It is the moment by moment experience of not being run by one's own reactive mechanisms." What does it mean to live one's life "on purpose"? If you really want to have "more hours in a day" take a look of how much of the day is wasted trying to meet "all the choices in your life"! Tonight we will explore "slimming down our lives" and "learning to live life more purposefully!"
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1h 42min
August 02, 2014 Creating Ease & Joy Through Mindfulness
Learn Mindfulness techniques for creating "ease and joy" throughout the day and at those moments we may be experiencing stress or anxiety, and when we need it the most.
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1h 55min
June 19, 2013 Me, Myself, and I - Oh My!
How does the concept "Me, Myself, and I" contribute to stress and suffering in our lives? How often has our position to defend and protect "I" and "My" opinions, beliefs, or expectations compound the suffering in our relationships at home and in the workplace? We will look at the difference between a "Healthy Sense of Self" and the illusion "Me, Myself, and I" created by an "egocentric" point of view of oneself and the world, which continues to keep us stuck and endangers relationships at home and in the workplace. How to get out of the trap and live, love, and be joyful!
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1h 53min
May 15, 2013 Love Without the Stuff
Bringing Mindfulness to Our Relationships
"Whatever we give our attention to increases, whatever we don't decreases." Living a Zen Inspired Life is bringing Mindfulness to our Relationships at home, at work, in the community, and our friendships. We will explore the Inner Core of Mindfulness in Relationships which is called - Love Without the Stuff.
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1h 47min
March 13, 2013 Quiet Mind/Quiet Body - Managing Stress and Anxiety
Aversion to anxiety is often accompanied by reactivity and actions that worsen how we feel. We suffer. Tonight's presentation taught from the perspectives of Zen and Mindfulness meditation practices, is supported by the latest neuroscience and psychological research. Our focus will be on our direct experience. We will practice uncovering the natural state of a quieted mind, slowing down enough to see what is actually happening when we describe ourselves as anxious. As we cultivate the opportunity to be with what is actually happening with awareness and clarity, we can respond to difficulties with consciousness, ease and new choices, rather than with reactivity that at times can make things worse.
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1h 48min
February 20, 2013 Happiness is a Way-of-Life!
Living a Zen-Inspired Way-of-Life is the ground for Beyond Happiness and Real Transformation.
Within our mind exists an extraordinary potential for inner peace and happiness. Through the simple practice of meditation, along with Buddha's time-tested advice for daily life, we can learn to access that potential. We can learn to let go of the agitated states of mind, such as anger, that produce unhappiness and instead we can cultivate peaceful, powerful minds such as compassion and wisdom.
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1h 42min
January 16, 2013 Letting Life In
Whenever we are closed to life as it is, all of it, we suffer and those we love and care about never really get to know us, or we them. Opening the Heart is the stuff of Authentic Spirituality and Living a Zen-Inspired Life, but it takes skillfulness and effort, courage and a commitment to loving oneself and life fully.
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2h 1min
October 07, 2012 The Edge of Mystery
This teaching challenges the idea that spirituality is primarily a search for knowledge or intellectual understanding. Humility brings us to the limits of what can be known, where practice invites us to inhabit mystery directly, recognize our smallness within a vast universe, and allow experience rather than explanation to transform us.
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31min
January 21, 2012 Act Accordingly
This Zen Chat explores authentic spiritual practice as the realization that what we seek is already present within ordinary life. Through attention, reverence, self-expression, and awareness of impermanence, we are urged to stop postponing love, gratitude, and self-care and to live fully while the opportunity is here.
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1h 48min
January 02, 2011 Beginning Again
A Sunday liturgy and teaching at the beginning of a new year, reflecting on practice, impermanence, and the opportunity to begin anew. Rather than treating transformation as something reserved for special occasions, Zen invites us to meet each moment as a fresh opportunity to awaken and live intentionally.
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1h 21min

FAQs about The Jizo-an Zen Community Podcast:

How many episodes does The Jizo-an Zen Community Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 143 episodes available.