Simplicity Zen Podcast

Simplicity Zen

A Podcast About Zen, Buddhism and Mindfulness. Episodes of this podcast will focus on Zen practitioner interviews, Buddhist and Zen history and investigations of the intersection between Zen and science. Podcast website: https://simplicityzen.com/

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104 episodes
Updated July 21

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Oct 7, 2022 · 1 hr 23 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 43 - An Interview with Michael Elliston (The Zen Lamp Series)
Taiun Michael Elliston began practicing Zen in 1966 With Matsuoka-Roshi at the Chicago Zen Buddhist Temple. He was ordained as a Zen priest in 1970 by Matsuoka-Roshi and in 1983 received full Dharma transmission. Has also studied with Sayrin Barbara Kohn of the Austin Zen Center and Shohaku Okumura of the Sanshin Zen Community. He is the founder and current about of Atlanta Soto Zen Center. More about Atlanta Zen Center: - https://www.aszc.org/ More about Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Sep 30, 2022 · 1 hr 11 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 42 - An Interview with Scott Thorton (The Zen Lamp Series)
Scott Thorton is a long time Zen practitioner in the Sanbo Zen tradition where he is an assistant teacher. He has been as student of Ruben Habito Roshi at Maria Kannon Zen Center in Dallas Texas for 22 years and now is a member of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe New Mexico where he lead to residency program. He is a musician and a professional psychologist. More about Mountain Cloud: - https://www.mountaincloud.org/ More about Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Sep 23, 2022 · 2 hr 12 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 41 - An Interview with David Chadwick (The Zen Lamp Series)
David Chadwick began his Zen study under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. Ordained as a Zen priest in 1971, he later wrote Suzuki's biography, “Crooked Cucumber”, as well as “Thank You and OK!: An American Zen Failure in Japan”. With a great deal of help, Chadwick is poo-bah of Cuke Archives (http://cuke.com/), preserving the legacy of Shunryu Suzuki and those whose paths crossed his—and anything else that comes to mind. See cuke.com and shunryusuzuki.com for more vital info. David host a regular podcast that can be found at http://cuke.com/TOC-podcast.htm. Highly recommended is the Audio version of Crooked Cucumber which is now on Audible with Thank you and OK! Soon to follow. David is also a musician with music available at http://defusermusic.com/. More about Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Sep 16, 2022 · 2 hr 1 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 40 - An Interview with Satya Vayu (The Zen Lamp Series)
Satya Vayu is a Zen monk originally ordained by Kobun Chino Roshi. He has practiced at the Tassajara and No Abode monasteries in California. He also has extensive practice experience at various Asian monasteries including Bukkoku-ji in Japan where he trained with the legendary Harada Tangen Roshi. He leads a residential pratice center in Portland Oregon called Touching Earth. More about Touching Earth: - https://touchingearth.cloudaccess.host/ More about Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Sep 9, 2022 · 1 hr 20 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 39 - An Interview with Valerie Forstman (The Zen Lamp Series)
Valerie Forstman is an Associate Zen Master of the Sanbo Zen lineage and Guiding Teacher at Mountain Cloud Zen Center. Her first teacher, with whom she continues to work, was Ruben Habito Roshi. Since 2003, she has also trained under the guidance of Yamada Ryoun Roshi, current abbot of Sanbo Zen. For more about Valerie: - https://www.mountaincloud.org/ For more about Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Sep 2, 2022 · 47 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 38 - An Interview with Dosho Port (The Zen Lamp Series)
Dosho Port teaches with the Vine of Obstacles: Online support for Zen Training. He began practicing Zen in 1977 and has received Soto Zen transmission from Dainin Katagiri Roshi and Harada-Yasutani koan lineage inka shomei from James Myoun Ford Roshi. Dosho is the author of Keep Me in Your Heart a While: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri and the recently released, Record of Empty Hall: One Hundred Classic Koans. For more on Dosho: - https://www.vineobstacleszen.com/ For more on the Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Aug 27, 2022 · 30 min
Simplicity Zen - Guided Loving Kindness and Zen Mindfulness Meditation
This is a recording of a guided meditation from an outdoor practice event at the historic Wakamatsu farm in El Dorado County, CA. This includes guided instructions for both classic Zen and loving kindness meditation. It could be helpful for those just starting out with meditation, those who are dealing with anxiety or stress or even experienced meditators who might want to try a new approach. For more information about the Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Aug 26, 2022 · 1 hr
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 37 - An Interview with Barry Magid (The Zen Lamp Series)
Barry Magid, M.D. is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Zen Teacher practicing and teaching in New York City. He is a dharma heir of Charlotte Joko Beck and the founding teacher of the The Ordinary Mind Zendo. He is the President of the Lay Zen Teachers Association. More about Barry Magid: - https://www.ordinarymind.com/barry-magid More about the Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Aug 19, 2022 · 1 hr 14 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 36 - An Interview with Daiho Matt Wagner (The Zen Lamp Series)
Rev. Daiho Matt Wagner Osho leads the Madison Rinzai Community in Wisconsin. After many years of both monastic and householder practice, in 2022 he was made an Osho by his teacher Meido Roshi Roshi of Korinji Rinzai Monastery. More about Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/ More about Madison Rinzai Community: - https://www.korinji.org/practice-groups
Aug 12, 2022 · 1 hr 13 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 35 - An Interview with Dan Myoen Birnbaum (The Zen Lamp Series)
Dan Myoen Birnbaum is the teacher of the Bay Zen Center in Oakland, CA. He is a lay teacher who received Dharma Transmission from Diane Eshin Rizzetto in 2019. He is a member of the Ordinary Mind Zen School, White Plum Asanga, American Zen Teacher’s Association and Lay Zen Teacher’s Association. Dan is a retired pediatric neurologist and was the Director of the Division of Neurology at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, CA. For more about Dan: - https://www.bayzen.org/ For More about the Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Aug 6, 2022 · 1 hr 4 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 34 - An Interview with Barbara Baccei (The Zen Lamp Series)
Barbara Baccei is a senior Zen student under Soto Zen priest Valorie Beer. She is currently in preparation for Lay Dharma Entrustment and is a teacher of sewing the Buddha's robe. For more about the Simplicity Zen Podcast : https://simplicityzen.com/
Jul 22, 2022 · 1 hr 40 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 33 - An Interview with Genryo Jones (The Zen Lamp Series)
Genryo Jones Osho is the instructor of Iron City Rinzai in Pittsburg, PA. He is a senior student and Osho under Meido Moore Roshi, abbot of Korinji in Wisconsin. He studied Zen under legendary Zen master Shodo Harada Roshi a the Sogenji monastery in Japan as well as several centers in the United States. More about the Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/ More about Iron City Rinzai: - https://ironcityrinzai.org/
Jul 8, 2022 · 1 hr 7 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 32 - An Interview with Kyosho Valorie Beer (The Zen Lamp Series)
Kyosho Valorie Beer has practiced Zen Buddhism since 1991. She was ordained as a Zen priest in 2005 and received Dharma Transmission in 2013 from her teacher, Edward Brown. She lived at Green Gulch Farm from 2003 to 2012, when she moved to City Center. After serving as the San Francisco Zen Center corporate secretary, she was the City Center Ino (Head of Meditation Hall), and is now supporting the Branching Streams sanghas as a visiting teacher and also a teacher of sewing Buddha's robe. For more on Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Jul 1, 2022 · 1 hr 31 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 31 - An Interview with So-on Jim Hare (The Zen Lamp Series)
So-on Jim Hare serves as Tanto, or head of practice at Valley Streams Zen Sangha in Sacramento. He lived in the San Francisco Zen Center community from 1980 to 1984, was lay ordained by Tenshin Reb Anderson in 1985, and priest ordained by Myo Lahey in 2016. He served as Head Student at Green Gulch Farm during the spring 2002 practice period. For more on Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Jun 24, 2022 · 1 hr 11 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 30 - An Interview with Jamie Howell (The Zen Lamp Series)
Jamie Howell is a lay Zen Teacher in the Suzuki Roshi Soto Tradition. After many years of practice he received the precepts in a jukai ceremony in 2000. He was chairman of the board of San Francisco Zen Center in 2004 and 2005, and was shuso at City Center in 2006. In 2011, Jamie received lay Dharma Entrustment from Dairyu Michael Wenger. More about Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Jun 17, 2022 · 53 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 29 - An Interview with Laurie Senauke (The Zen Lamp Series)
Laurie Senauke started formal Zen practice in 1980 at San Francisco Zen Center; she worked at Greens Restaurant back in the day and lived at Tassajara for three years. In 1989 she married Hozan Alan Senauke, moved to Berkeley Zen Center, and raised their two children with him there. She served as head student (shuso) at BZC in 2003 and is a Practice Leader there. In April 2018, she received priest ordination from Daito Steven Weintraub as Kosei Nyokai – Radiant Vow, Suchness Ocean. In Fall 2018, she served as shuso at Tassajara. She received Dharma Transmission from Steve in 2021. For more on Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/ Berkeley Zen Center: - https://berkeleyzencenter.org/
Jun 10, 2022 · 1 hr 40 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 28 - An Interview with Rinzan Pechovnik (The Zen Lamp Series)
Rinzan Pechovnik is a Rinzai Zen priest and is the teacher at No Rank Zendo in Portland Oregon. Rinzan began his training with the Zen Community of Oregon in 2003, studying under Hogan and Chozen Bays. He began training under Genjo Marinello in 2012, ordained under him in 2013, and was named a Dharma Heir (Inka) in 2019. He works professionally as a trained psychotherapist. More about Rinzan: - https://www.norankzendo.org/portlandzenbuddhism More about Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Jun 9, 2022 · 32 min
Episode 27 - The Science of Zen, Mindfulness and Meditation
Buddhist meditation is thousands of years old and has profoundly changed the lives of countless practitioners, but it is only very recently (in the last 4 years or so) have neuroscientists reached a point of understanding why humans experience so much discontentment with life and why and how meditation is the solution to this problem. We explore this topic from the perspective of Zen Buddhist practice. For more on the Science of Zen, Mindfulness and Meditation: - https://scienceofzen.org/ For more about Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Jun 3, 2022 · 56 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 26 - An Interview with Susan Moon (The Zen Lamp Series)
Susan Moon is a writer, editor, and lay teacher in the Soto Zen tradition. She is the author of a number of books about Buddhism, including the humor book "The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi" and "This Is Getting Old: Zen Thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity". For many years she was the editor of Turning Wheel, the journal of socially engaged Buddhism. Her most recent book is "Alive Until You're Dead: Notes on the Home Stretch" For more about Susan: - https://susanmoon.wordpress.com/ For more about Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
May 26, 2022 · 1 hr 19 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 25 - An Interview with James Ishmael Ford (The Zen Lamp Series)
James Ishmael Ford is a Zen teacher and semi-retired Unitarian Universalist minister. He has dharma transmission from Houn Jiyu Kennett and Inka Shomei from John Nanryu Ji'un-ken Tarrant. He is the guiding teacher of the Empty Moon Sangha. For more about James: - http://www.jamesishmaelford.com/ For more about the Simplicity Zen Podcast: https://simplicityzen.com/

Simplicity Zen Podcast

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 43 - An Interview with Michael Elliston (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 42 - An Interview with Scott Thorton (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 41 - An Interview with David Chadwick (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 40 - An Interview with Satya Vayu (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 39 - An Interview with Valerie Forstman (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 38 - An Interview with Dosho Port (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen - Guided Loving Kindness and Zen Mindfulness Meditation

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 37 - An Interview with Barry Magid (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 36 - An Interview with Daiho Matt Wagner (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 35 - An Interview with Dan Myoen Birnbaum (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 34 - An Interview with Barbara Baccei (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 33 - An Interview with Genryo Jones (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 32 - An Interview with Kyosho Valorie Beer (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 31 - An Interview with So-on Jim Hare (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 30 - An Interview with Jamie Howell (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 29 - An Interview with Laurie Senauke (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 28 - An Interview with Rinzan Pechovnik (The Zen Lamp Series)

Episode 27 - The Science of Zen, Mindfulness and Meditation

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 26 - An Interview with Susan Moon (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 25 - An Interview with James Ishmael Ford (The Zen Lamp Series)