The Zen Studies Podcast
Upcoming Episodes (subject to change):
I regularly rearrange this schedule, so top 2-3 topics in each category reflect my plans in the near future. I plan to produce approximately 3 episodes a month. Become a member to support my work! – Domyo
Buddhist History
Buddhist Practice
Buddhist Teachings
Buddhist Texts
Dharma Talks
Meditation
Zen Teachings
Buddha’s Teachings:
- Buddha’s Teachings: Questions Not Tending to Edification
- Buddha’s Teachings: Knowing for Yourself
- Buddha’s Teachings: Dealing with Death
- Buddha’s Teachings: Monastic and Householder Practice
Buddhist Teachings:
- Buddhist Ideals to Live By: The Six Paramitas, or Perfections
- The Truth Sets You Free: The Importance of Insight in Buddhism
- The Bodhisattva Ideal and Archetypal Bodhisattvas
- Buddhist Teachings on Social Responsibility and Harmony
- The Buddhist Teachings on Emptiness: From Anatta to Shunyata
- How Buddhists Should Behave: Evolution of the Buddhist Precepts Part 3 (Japan)
- How Vow Is Central to Buddhism and Zen
- What Is Enlightenment? Separating the Myths from the Truth
- What the Heck Is Buddha-Nature?
- Helpful and Harmful Forms of Pleasure
Buddhist Texts:
- The Dhammapada: History, Content and Importance to Buddhism
- The Precious Mirror Samadhi
- The Daihishin Dharani
- The Universal Gateway of Compassion (Kanzeon Sutra)
- Prajnaparamita Sutra in 8,000 Lines
- Mahaparinirvana Sutra
- Vimalakirti Sutra
- The Lotus Sutra
- The Avatamsaka Sutra
- The Diamond Sutra
- The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Ancestor
- The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
- Hongzhi’s Cultivating the Empty Field
- Dogen’s Bendowa, Fukanzazengi, Tenzokyokun, Uji, Zazenshin, Bussho, and Other Writings
- Keizan’s Denkoroku and Zazen-yojin-ki
- Seng-T’san’s Faith in Mind
Buddhist Practice (things Buddhists do):
- Moment by Moment: Buddhist Practice Off the Cushion
- Buddhist Chanting: What’s It All About and Why Do We Do It?
- Bowing in Buddhism: What’s It All About and Why Do We Do It?
- Buddhist Altars: Their Purpose and Meaning
- Bodhisattva Precepts: Practicing with a Moral Code in Everyday Life
- Buddhist Ceremonies: Segaki/Sejiki, Festival of Hungry Ghosts
Dharma Talks:
- Three Major Changes We’ve Made to Buddhism in the West (Individualism, Psychology, Egalitarianism)
- When X Happens, What Is Your “Practice?”
- Learning to Be Your Own Teacher over Years of Hard Practice
- Reconciling the Absolute and Relative in Your Life
Meditation/Zazen:
- Zazen as Enactment Ritual
- Zazen as a Somatic (Embodied) Experience
- Sitting As If Your Hair Is on Fire (Cultivating Wholeheartedness and Passion)
- Two Aspects of Zazen: Calm Abiding and Insight
- Meditation Practice over a Lifetime (or How to Keep It Up)
Zen Teachings:
- The Soto Zen “Koan Arises in Everyday Life”
- The Zen Approach to Afflictive Emotions
- Soto Versus Rinzai: Two Sides of Zen Practice
- The Big Deal about Teachers, Dharma Ancestors, and Lineage in Zen
- Emptiness: Describing an Experience, Not a Concept
- Absolute and Relative – An Introduction to Why Everything’s Okay Even When It’s Not
Buddhist History:
- Ancient Indian Buddhism: The Beginnings of the Mahayana
- Ancient Indian Buddhism: Monastic and Scholastic Activities
- Origins and Early Development of Buddhism in Sri Lanka
- Early Development of Mahayana Buddhism, 100 BCE – 100 CE
- Women in Buddhism, Buddhism and Women
- Lay Versus Ordained: History of a Buddhist Conundrum
- Flowering, Decline and Rebirth of Indian Buddhism in the Common Era
- Further Development of Mahayana in India, Including Major Sutras
- Transmission of Buddhism throughout SE Asia & the History of Sri Lankan Buddhism
- History of Buddhism in Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Thailand
- Tibetan Buddhism I: The First Propagation and the Development of Tantric Buddhism (700-900 CE)
- Tibetan Buddhism II – Second Propagation until Modern Day, and an Example of Tantric Practice
Would you like me to cover something that isn’t listed here?