Zen Wisdom for Your Everyday Life
So many are saying Where is God when I need him? Especially today. Many feel deserted and alone. But it is only that we have been looking in the wrong direction, searching everywhere but at home. The surprising answer to the question tells us instead, that all we need is right here with us in our everyday life. In fact it is right at the kitchen table. It is only that we have been looking elsewhere, searching all around. These episodes offer specific ways in which we can encounter God, fulfillment, enlightenment right here in our daily lives, wherever we go.
Episodes
309 episodes
CHANGE IS NOT LOSS
Many of us fear change, because we experience it as loss. We do all we can to keep our world stable, secure, and as we want it to be. Most of our time is guarding against change, fighting and refusing it. But the truth is that life itself is co...
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Season 3
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Episode 43
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16:44
WHAT'S WRONG WITH BEING WRONG?
We are driven by the need to be right, not wrong. And many of the conflicts in our relationships are caused by this, as well. When a difference of any kind arises, we immediately insist that we are right, the other is wrong. Thes...
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Season 3
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Episode 53
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14:28
WHAT'S THE REAL QUESTION?
So much of our lives are filled with questions that have no answer. We go around and around in our mind trying to figure everything out. These questions about ourselves, others, what will happen, and what's the best road to take, plague us endl...
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Season 3
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Episode 53
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16:26
HOW TO REALIZE THAT IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY
No matter what's going on, how we see the event or person, determines what they becomes to us. We can find that which is devastating about them and ties us in knots. Or, we can let go of opposing and rejecting what's going on,...
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Season 3
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Episode 44
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15:45
THIS STEP WILL NOT COME AGAIN: IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO BE STUCK
We're all looking for thrills and chills as we go through life. Our ordinary everyday life seems too simple, dull and repetetive. To make life special we feel we have to jazz things up, create dazzling goals, become someone special, recei...
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Season 3
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Episode 45
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16:24
WATCH, THE SUN IS BREAKING THROUGH
We live most of our lives surrounded by Dire Predictions, a snowstorm is on the way, huge winds, dangerous conditiions. And, then, before we know it, the snow has turned to light rain and the sun begins breaking through. Dire predictions come f...
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Season 3
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Episode 44
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17:16
ALLOWING YOURSELF TO LIVE FULLY
How many of us can really allow ourselves to really live, feel the sun, hear our neighbor, be present and available to all that arrives. This is actually a great art, and in order to do it, we must learn the great secret of "Allowing"....
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Season 3
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Episode 44
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14:19
MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN TOMORROW?
We are always waiting for something to happen to make things right. There's usually something missing in what's going on right now. We want it to turnout differenly and won't stop until it does. There's a picture in our mind of how everything i...
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15:31
FALLING IN LOVE WITH LIFE
We are not aware of how much we reject life. A gap takes place before we are willing to notice, engage with and accept what's going on. Often we just block things we don't like out. Or, our initial response is to judge what's taking place, filt...
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Season 3
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Episode 38
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14:53
WHO YOU ARE SPEAKS SO LOUD I CAN'T HEAR WHAT YOU SAY
True communication comes in many forms. So often we present an image of ourselves, play a role or speak to impress, or influence. This type of interaction causes division, not only within ourselves, but in our relationships. All long for true c...
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Season 3
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Episode 33
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15:41
A TRULY HAPPY DAY
We all wish each other a Happy New Year, and mean it. But what does it mean to be truly happy?? Usually we think it includes lots of laughs and smiles, a happy face and demeanor. Certainly, it is a pleasure to feel that way, but how long does a...
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17:24
FOR THE NEW YEAR TO BE NEW, YOU MUST BE NEW!
Even though everyday is new, we drag the old along with us wherever we go. Then, longing for a new start, we look for it everywhere. Some move to a new neighborhood or relationship, profession, even new haircut.. As we approac...
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Season 3
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Episode 43
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14:55
NOT YET. ALMOST! IT'S RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER
We're always waiting for things to be fulfilled, for the job to be over, for good news to arrive, or for our long wait to be over, for our needs to be met. As a Zen Master saw his driven students, pushing and striving for results,&n...
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Season 3
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Episode 44
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15:51
THE SUN IS RIGHT BEHIND THE CLOUD; PAY ATTENTION
Caught in our thoughts we feel that we know what's going on, and respond accordingly. Instead of paying precious attention to what's right in front of us, our attention is caught and trapped by our endless obsessions. What a pity. Our trapped a...
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Season 3
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Episode 34
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17:32
WHO'S IN CHARGE?
It's so easy to become upset when things don't work out our way. Many feel like failures, that no matter what they do, but life just proceeds as it wishes. Nothing to feel badly about. We do all we can and certainly can bring benefit, but let's...
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13:36
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
We have so many expectations about what is going to happen, what needs to happen and how to manage everything. So many hours are spent planning how to navigate the twists and turns of life, to be ready for everything. Yet, most of the things we...
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Season 3
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Episode 35
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18:07
LETS GIVE THANKS ALL DAY LONG
Thanksiving is here, a yearly time to remember, thank and reach out. But this practice is so powerful and central to our well being, our lives would turn around if we took a day or two each week, (or more) and gave thanks all day long. No...
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Season 3
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Episode 31
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17:30
FINDING GOD AT THE KITCHEN TABLE
Where is God when I need Him?? This cry is heard so loudly these days and during times of trouble. Let's explore the feelings of abandonment, loss and the confusion we experience as things seem to go out of control. There is a secret answer whi...
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Season 3
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Episode 31
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15:32
IN SILENCE ALL IS REVEALED
So many phrases we use are routine, casual, empty comments to daily questions. For example, how are you today? How's it going? Fine, fine. Really? How's what going? Nothing has really been asked, and no answer given. We hide behind words, sloga...
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Season 3
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Episode 37
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15:51
ONE TRUE STEP BRINGS THE NEXT
Everyone wonders where to go, how to get to our destination. We try to figure out all the twists and turns in the road. So often there's a fork in the road, or our journey is not what we expected. As we figure out what to do, we lose touch with...
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Season 3
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Episode 40
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16:23
RETURN TO SANITY NOW
In the midst of the chaos we are going through, it seems we've left sanity far behind and it will be so difficult to return to it. Living in a world with mixed messages, confusion and emotions flaring high we wonder if we will ever find t...
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Season 3
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Episode 44
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14:42
FINDING GOD AT THE KITCHEN TABLE
In these enormously difficult time the first thing we ask is Where Has God Gone? Endless prayers are offered, vigils and all of us instinctively turn to the divine at a time like this. In fact, God has not gone anywhere. He/she is right here, a...
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Season 3
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Episode 33
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27:49
MEETING AND DISSOLVING FEAR, FACE TO FACE
In order to break out of the spell of fear, it's necessary to learn more about fear, meet it face to face. We are all senior to fear, there is no need to get caught in the great undertow it brings and lose our clarity and mobility. Fear n...
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Season 3
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Episode 43
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18:06
JOURNEY TO SAFETY, (Undoing Fear)
The Journey to Safety begins with our ability to dismantle fear. This episode describes the nature of fear, and our ability to see through it, on our journey to the natural safety that we are.
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Season 4
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1:11
THE HEALING POWER OF SIMPLICITY
We love to make our lives more and more complicated, fill them with "problems and fears" and then spend the entire day trying to find solutions. At the end of the day, tied up in knots, we wonder what we've gained. Actually, we have not gained ...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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17:11