Sit, Breathe, Bow

Sit, Breathe, Bow

Hosted by: Ian White Maher

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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 the eyes we are looking...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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Rev. Kokyo Henkel

Rev. Kokyo Henkel began practicing Zen in 1990 at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. He was ordained as a priest in 1994 by Tenshin Anderson Roshi and received Dharma Transmission from him in 2010. Kokyo has also been...
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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...
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Karin Ryuku Kempe, Roshi

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...
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Kotatsu John Bailes

Kotatsu John Bailes began his practicing Zen in 1972 at the age of 19 at the San Francisco Zen Center. He was ordained a Zen Priest by Richard Baker Roshi in 1977, spending time at Tassajara, Green Gulch Farm and the...
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