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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May 24, 2022 · 1 hr 1 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 24 - An Interview with Kellie Shojaku Garza (The Zen Lamp Series)
Kellie Shojaku Garza M.A., LMHC, CST., is a licensed mental health counselor and has been practicing psychotherapy since 2004. A large part of her practice and focus has been on working with trauma survivors. Kellie received Dharma Transmission from Fusho Roshi in 2021. She enjoys integrating psychology with her Zen practice and teaching. For more about Kellie and Open Mind Zen: - https://openmindzen.com/our-teachers/ For more about the Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
May 20, 2022 · 1 hr 19 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 23 - An Interview with Myo Lahey (The Zen Lamp Series)
Rev. Myō Lahey is a Dharma heir of Tenshin Reb Anderson and is the Abbot at Issan-ji as well as Guiding Teacher at Valley Streams Zen Sangha in Sacramento, California. He has previously served as the Practice Leader at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and has served leadership roles in the Soto Zen Buddhist Association of North America . For more on Issan-ji: - https://hszc.org/ For more on Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
May 17, 2022 · 2 hr 1 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 22 - An Interview with Daniel Terragno (The Zen Lamp Series)
Daniel Terragno, a native of Chile, is a teacher in the koan tradition of the Diamond Sangha, which was founded by Robert Aitken Roshi. Daniel is the dharma heir of John Tarrant Roshi of the Pacific Zen Institute. Daniel started his spiritual practice in 1967 studying the Gurdjieff Work with W.A. Nyland before taking up Zen. Daniel received authorization to teach Zen in 1995, and in 2001 received dharma transmission from Tarrant Roshi. Daniel also teaches and leads sesshin in Ohio with Yellow Springs Dharma Center and Zen on High in Columbus, Ohio; with Grupo Zen Viento del Sur (Southern Wind) in Argentina, based in Buenos Aires, and also in Santiago, Chile. For more about Daniel: - https://rocksandcloudszendo.org/ For more about the Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
May 13, 2022 · 1 hr 13 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 21 - An Interview with Shozan Jack Haubner (The Zen Lamp Series)
Shozan Jack Haubner is an ordained Rinzai Zen priest and was a student of Kyozan Joshu Sasaki. He has written two memoirs (Zen Confidential,Single White Monk) about his experiences studying with Sasaki and is currently working on a third book. For more about Shozan: - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt9Q74t3o7AUCJ_bKTc5CgA For more about the Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
May 12, 2022 · 57 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 20 - An Interview with Ben Connelly (The Zen Lamp Series)
Ben Connelly is a Senior Zen Teacher at Minnesota Zen Meditation Center. Ben began Zen practice at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in 2001, was ordained in 2009, and received dharma transmission in 2015. He is currently serving as Program Administrator. He started teaching Introduction to Meditation in 2005, and since then has taught regularly at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center and more recently, at Zen centers across the US. He teaches secular mindfulness in a variety of contexts such as police training, addiction recovery groups, and wellness groups. Ben is also a musician by profession: a singer and songwriter, guitar teacher, film composer and multi-instrumentalist. His first book, Inside the Grass Hut, Living Shitou's Classic Zen Poem (Wisdom Publications) was published in 2014, and his second Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A Practitioner's Guide, was published by Wisdom in 2016. His latest book, Mindfulness and Intimacy, came out in February 2019 (Wisdom Publications). For more on Ben: https://wisdomexperience.org/content-author/ben-connelly/ For more on the Simplicity Zen Podcast: https://simplicityzen.com/
May 9, 2022 · 1 hr 12 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 19 - An Interview with Geoff Keeton (The Zen Lamp Series)
Geoff started to study Zen at the Zen Center of Denver in March of 1991. In November of 1996, he received the rakusu during Jukai--his ordained name is Strongvow. He studied with Danan Henry Roshi until Danan retired in 2009, when he continued he study with one of his heirs, Kenneth Morgareidge, Roshi. Geoff finished formal koan training in 2014 in the Diamond Sangha tradition of the Harada-Yasutani-Aitken-Henry lineage--The Sanbo Kyodan. Geoff continues to work with Ken Roshi on various Dogen fascicles from the Shobogenzo as well as the 300-koans of The True Dharma Eye, and these continue to work on him. in January 2022, Geoff started to give dharma talks and conduct daisan. On May 22, 2022, he will be formally recognized as an assistant teacher at the Zen Center of Denver. For more information about the Simplicity Zen Podcast: https://simplicityzen.com/
May 6, 2022 · 1 hr 12 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 18 - An Interview with Brad Warner (The Zen Lamp Series)
Brad Warner was born in Ohio in 1964. In 1983 he met Zen teacher Tim McCarthy and began his study of Zen while he was still the bass player of the hardcore punk band Zero Defex, whose big hit was the eighteen-second masterpiece "Drop the A-Bomb on Me!" In the 1980s he released five albums of psychedelic rock under the band name Dimentia 13 (that's the way he spelled it), though Dimentia 13 was often a one-man band with Brad playing all the instruments. In 1993 he moved to Japan, where he landed a job with Tsuburaya Productions, the company founded by Eiji Tsuburaya, the man who created Godzilla. The following year Brad met Gudo Nishijima Roshi, who ordained him as a Zen monk and made him his dharma heir in 2000. He has written several books and just released a new one titled "The Other Side of Nothing: The Zen Ethics of Time, Space, and Being ". Brad's new book: - https://www.amazon.com/Other-Side-Nothing-Ethics-Space/dp/1608688046 For more on the Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
May 5, 2022 · 1 hr 16 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 17 - An Interview with Teresa Regan Hess (The Zen Lamp Series)
Teresa Regan Hess practiced for five years under the renowned Rinzai Zen Master Shodo Harada Rōshi at Sogen-ji monastery in Japan. There she received the Jukai precepts before leaving to raise a family in Washington state. For more information about Simplicity Zen Buddhist Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
May 4, 2022 · 59 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 16 - An Interview with Robert Schaefer (The Zen Lamp Series)
Robert Mutoku Scheafer is a Rinzai Zen priest ordained Rinzan Pechovnik Osho of No Rank Zendo in 2022. After years of following many spiritual paths, Robert began studying Zen under Rick Kendo Hart in the Mt Baldy Zen Center lineage. Next he began Zen studies with Konrad Ryushin Marchaj at Zen Mountain Monastery and remained his student for many years. For the last several years he has been practicing with the Rinzai Zen koan curriculum at No Rank Zendo where he frequently attends sesshin. For more in No Rank Zendo: - https://www.norankzendo.org/ More more on Simplicity Zen Buddhist Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Apr 30, 2022 · 1 hr 20 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 15 - An Interview with Robert Epstein (The Zen Lamp Series)
Robert Koho Epstein, Sensei has practiced meditation and a wide range of spiritual practices over the past 40 years. This includes Zen and mindfulness meditation, Yang style T’ai Chi, Iyengar Yoga, and Advaita Vedanta. Robert taught Iyengar Yoga and practiced deep tissue massage for 15 years in New York and was ordained by the New Seminary as an Interfaith Minister. He also started his acting studio and began training actors in Meisner Technique, a moment-to-moment acting method that he still teaches today. Robert received Dharma Transmission from Fusho Roshi in 2022. For more about Robert and Open Mind Zen: - https://openmindzen.com/ Fore more about Simplicity Zen: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Apr 27, 2022 · 53 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 14 - An Interview with Barbara O'Brien (The Zen Lamp Series)
Barbara O'brien has been practicing Zen Buddhism since the 1980s. She works as a journalist, reporting primarily on religion in America. She is the author of The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World, Rethinking Religion: Finding a Place for Religion in a Modern, Tolerant, Progressive, Peaceful and Science-affirming World and has written about Buddhism for many outlets including About.com, The Guardian, Tricycle, and Lion’s Roar. She blogs about whatever is on her mind at her personal blog, The Mahablog (mahablog.com). For more information on Simplicity Zen: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Apr 24, 2022 · 1 hr 19 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 13 - An Interview with Al Fusho Rapaport (The Zen Lamp Series)
Al Fusho Rapaport, Roshi has practiced and taught Zen for almost 50 years. He studied with Kozan Roshi, Maezumi Roshi, and Genpo Roshi until receiving Dharma Transmission from Shuzen Roshi in 2008. As President of Open Mind Productions, Al produced the first Yoga Journal Conferences as well as the Buddhism in America Conferences from 1996 until 2001. He is author of Open Mind Zen: A Guide to Meditation, and currently serves as Director of Open Mind Zen International and MBSR Florida in Melbourne, Florida. Roshi is a member of the White Plum Asangha, the American Zen Teachers Association and Secretary/Treasurer of the Lay Zen Teachers Association. More from Al Fusho Rapaport, Roshi: - https://openmindzen.com/ More about Simplicity Zen: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Apr 22, 2022 · 1 hr 13 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 12 - An Interview with Genjo Marinello (The Zen Lamp Series)
Kokan (古観) Genjo (玄成 )Marinello is a Rinzai priest and abbot of Chobo-ji in Seattle. He began his Zen training in 1975 after befriending Rev. Daizen Brian Victoria at UCLA and began practicing zazen under the instruction of Thích Thiên-Ân. Genjo did his first sesshin in the summer of 1977 under the instruction of Soto Zen Priest Hirano Osho-san. Genjo was ordained an unsui (priest in training) in 1980 in Seattle. For parts of 1981 and 1982 he trained for one winter period at Ryutaku-Ji (龍澤寺) in Japan, under Sochu Suzuki Roshi and retired Soen Nakagawa Roshi. For a time both Genjo and Genki trained with Joshu Sasaki. After Genki Takabayashi retired, Genjo trained with the late Eido Shimano, former abbot of DaiBosatsu Monastery in New York, who affirmed Genjo as Dharma Heir on May 21st, 2008. In addition to being our Abbot, Genjo is a psychotherapist in private practice. More about Genjo: - https://choboji.org/ More about Simplicity Zen: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Apr 20, 2022 · 1 hr 21 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 11 - An Interview with John KiJo (The Zen Lamp Series)
Kijo Sensei has practiced primarily in Zen for over thirty years, being first ordained as a Zen priest in the Maezumi Roshi White Plum Soto Zen tradition in 1991 and then was ordained in the Order of Clear Mind Zen by Shoji Roshi in 2017. Kijo Sensei was Transmitted as a Zen teacher and a full priest, by Shoji Roshi in early 2021. He is also a member of Zen Peacemakers International and has guest lectured at the American University in London and at Heythrop College, the then theological college of London University. He leads the Smiling Buddha Zen Center in Colorado. More information about Kijo and Smiling Buddha Zen Center: - https://www.smilingbuddhazen.com/ More information about Simplicity Zen: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Apr 19, 2022 · 1 hr 31 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 10 - An Interview with Rev. Joshua Paszkiewicz (The Zen Lamp Series)
Rev. Joshua Paszkiewicz, D.Min., (aka Sunyananda) has been studying and teaching Buddhism full time as a Zen Priest since 2010, and has been practicing formally since his childhood. Sunyananda holds a B.A. in Liberal Studies, an M.A. in Religion, a Doctor of Ministry in Pastoral Psychotherapy, and board certification as both a Pastoral Counselor and a Clinical Chaplain. Sunyananda has served as an official delegate to many major Buddhist events both nationally and internationally, including the first White House Buddhist Leader’s Conference, and the United Nation’s World Day of Vesak. Sunyananda is a fully authorized teacher in Vietnamese and Korean Zen schools, and was made an Assistant Teacher (as a student of Fusho Roshi) in Open Mind Zen in 2019. More about Sunyananda here: http://www.drjrp.com/ More about Simplicity Zen here: https://simplicityzen.com/
Apr 17, 2022 · 1 hr 1 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 9 - An Interview with Henry Shukman (The Zen Lamp Series)
Henry Shukman is the Spiritual Director of the Mountain Cloud Zen Center. Henry has been trained by Zen several teachers, particularly the roshi’s Joan Rieck, John Gaynor, Ruben Habito and Yamada Ryoun Roshi, as well as by teachers and mentors in other traditions. He currently guides a wide range of students from all walks of life. He has received dharma transmission (inka shomei) from Yamada Ryoun Roshi, the abbot of Sanbo Zen, and is a Zen Master of the Sanbo Zen lineage of Kamakura, Japan. He is also a mindfulness teacher and is the Spiritual Director of Mountain Cloud Zen Center. Previously he had a career as an award-winning author and poet. His struggles as a youth, combined with a spontaneous awakening experience at 19, paved the way for Henry to develop a well-rounded approach to spirituality and meditation, under the guidance of his teachers – one that includes both compassionate concern for the sufferings of the world and the great liberative power of awakening as its foundations. More about Henry and Mountain Cloud: - https://www.mountaincloud.org/ More about Simplicity Zen: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Apr 14, 2022 · 1 hr 31 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 8 - An Interview with Jundo Cohen (The Zen Lamp Series)
Jundo Cohen is a Zen teacher and founder of the Treeleaf Zendo, a Sōtō Zen community using visual media to link Zen practitioners around the world. Treeleaf serves those who cannot easily commute to a Zen center due to health concerns; age or disability; living in remote areas; or work, childcare, or family needs; and provides zazen sittings, retreats, discussion, interaction with a teacher, and all other activities of a Zen Buddhist sangha, all fully online without thought of location or distance. Jundo was born and raised in the United States but has lived in Japan for more than half his life. He was ordained and subsequently received Dharma transmission from Master Gudo Wafu Nishijima. More about Jundo: - https://www.treeleaf.org/ More about Simplicity Zen: - - https://simplicityzen.com/
Apr 12, 2022 · 1 hr 29 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 7: An Interview with Renshin Bunce (Zen Lamp Series)
Renshin is a Soto Zen Priest and retired professional chaplin. She met her teacher Myogen Steve Stücky in January of 1994. She took jukai with Myogen at Dharma Eye Zen Center in October of 1996; was priest ordained by Zenkei Blanche Hartman at San Francisco Zen Center on January 3, 2003; served as shuso (head student) with Myogen at Tassajara in the fall of 2008, and received dharma transmission from him at Tassajara in April of 2013. She began training as a chaplain at the Sati Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy Training in Redwood City in 2007. A one year hospital residency in Clinical Pastoral Education followed. She moved out of Zen Center in 2008 and began work as a hospice chaplain since 2010. More about Renshin: - https://www.renshinbunce.com/ More about Simplicity Zen: - https://simplicityzen.com/
Apr 11, 2022 · 2 hr 3 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 6: An Interview with Meido Moore Roshi (Zen Lamp Series)
Meido Roshi began Zen practice in 1988 and trained under three teachers in the line of the great 20th century Rinzai master Omori Sogen Roshi: the late Tenzan Toyoda Rokoji, in whose training hall he resided for seven years while also enduring a severe training in traditional martial arts; Dogen Hosokawa Roshi (Omori Roshi’s main dharma heir), with whom he trained for fifteen years; and So'zan Miller Roshi, with whom he trained for three years. He has completed the koan curriculum of this lineage, and in 2008 received inka shomei.
Apr 11, 2022 · 58 min
Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 5 - An Interview with Seth Dennis (The Zen Lamp Series)
Seth Dennis a working emergency room chaplain and Zen priest in the Dogen Zenji and Matsuoka Roshi Zen lineage. He was a student of and received Dharma Transmission from John Shoji Sorensen. Seth is best reached via is Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/seth.dennis.35 For more about Simplicity Zen, please visit: https://simplicityzen.com/

Simplicity Zen Podcast

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 24 - An Interview with Kellie Shojaku Garza (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 23 - An Interview with Myo Lahey (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 22 - An Interview with Daniel Terragno (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 21 - An Interview with Shozan Jack Haubner (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 20 - An Interview with Ben Connelly (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 19 - An Interview with Geoff Keeton (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 18 - An Interview with Brad Warner (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 17 - An Interview with Teresa Regan Hess (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 16 - An Interview with Robert Schaefer (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 15 - An Interview with Robert Epstein (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 14 - An Interview with Barbara O'Brien (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 13 - An Interview with Al Fusho Rapaport (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 12 - An Interview with Genjo Marinello (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 11 - An Interview with John KiJo (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 10 - An Interview with Rev. Joshua Paszkiewicz (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 9 - An Interview with Henry Shukman (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 8 - An Interview with Jundo Cohen (The Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 7: An Interview with Renshin Bunce (Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 6: An Interview with Meido Moore Roshi (Zen Lamp Series)

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 5 - An Interview with Seth Dennis (The Zen Lamp Series)