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An experimental podcast exploring the healing and life-sustaining potential of Zen insight, meditation and mindfulness in a modern world of existential challenges to health, happiness and our very survival. The author has over 50 years training in Zen practice, studying under roshis Philip Kapleau, Joshu Sasaki, and Richard Clarke, his root teacher whom he succeeded in 2013. He is a medical doctor specializing in Emergency Medicine and Addiction Medicine. Recorded by: Paul Gerstein
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Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Podcast channel is given the name, “Pandemic Zen” and the general theme of using mindfulness to deal with real-life adversity. Paul explains the Zen phrase, “Jumping on the back of the horse thief’s horse” to describe methods of intentionally turning the concept of meaning to one’s advantage in exploring an underlying truth.
Credits:
Recorded by:
Paul Gerstein, MD
Podcast channel creation and website design:
James Kieffer – kiefferconsulting.com
Intro music:
Dancing for the Answers, Nick Mulvey
Ending music:
Riders On The Storm, The Doors
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Going further into “Stopping” and the reliance on intellectual meaning vs. the “meaning” of the sheer experience of sensory actuality. Paul discusses the insight of “What it means is that it is (and nothing more).” We look into the non-interference of naming with directly-experiencing. Awakening and enlightenment are explored in a fresh way. “Awakening is waking up the fact that things appear.”
Credits:
Recorded by:
Paul Gerstein, MD
Podcast channel creation and website design:
James Kieffer – kiefferconsulting.com
Intro music:
Dancing for the Answers, Nick Mulvey
Ending music:
The Lantern, The Rolling Stones
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
In this first episode, Paul discusses the implications of the global COVID-19 pandemic and how attending to one’s sensations can be a doorway to a fresh relationship with the challenges of everyday life. Using the koan, “Stop the sound of the distant temple bell”, we explore a method of looking both through and behind the world of form to contact the ‘Source’ of reality.
Credits:
Recorded by:
Paul Gerstein, MD
Podcast channel creation and website design:
James Kieffer – kiefferconsulting.com
Intro music:
Dancing for the Answers, Nick Mulvey
Ending music:
Who’ll Stop The Rain, Creedence Clearwater Revival