Sit, Breathe, Bow
A Podcast for Practitioners
Our Ideal is Authenticity with Sallie Jiko Tisdale
Sallie Jiko Tisdale began practicing Zen in 1983 and received Lay Dharma transmission in 1997 from her teacher, Kyogen Carlson. She currently serves as Godo, or head of teaching, for Dharma Rain...
Sincerity is Everything with Andrzej Stec, JDPSN
Andrzej Stec, Ji Do Poep Sa Nim, met Zen Master Seung Sahn at a dharma talk at Gdansk Polytechnic University in 1981 where Andrzej was working on his Masters of Architecture. He began formal...
You Can't Wash Off Blood With Blood with Meido Moore Roshi
Meido Moore Roshi is the abbot of Korinji monastery near Madison, Wisconsin and guiding teacher of the Korinji Rinzai Zen Community. Meido Roshi began Zen training in 1988 and practiced under...
If You Give Up, Then What? with Myong Hae Sunim, JDPS (Rebroadcast)
Myong Hae Sunim, JDPS, was originally planning on becoming a Catholic nun when a friend invited her to hear a visiting Chinese Zen Master, Su Bong Sunim. Lithuania had recently become...
Remembering Our Humanity with Dr. Catherine Anraku Hondorp, Sensei
Dr. Catherine Anraku Hondorp Sensei is a Soto Zen Buddhist Priest and an authorized Zen teacher in the White Plum lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi. Anraku Sensei is co-founder, with her spouse...
Acceptance of What Is with Haemin Sunim
Haemin Sunim was born in South Korea, but after high school he moved to the U.S. to study film at UC Berkeley. Dissatisfied with the reality of filmmaking he switched to religious studies and went...
The Richness Comes When You Get Out of the Way with Shinge Roshi
Shinge Sherry Chayat, Roshi began formal Zen practice at the Zen Studies Society in 1967. She served as co-director of the first residential community at Dai Bosatsu Zendo from 1974 until 1976,...
Everything is Completely Open with Zen Master Hae Kwang
Zen Master Hae Kwang, Stanley Lombardo, first started to practice with Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1978, receiving inka from him in 1992 and transmission in 1998. An emeritus classics professor at...
We Co-Shape the Space Together with Zen Master Jok Um
Zen Master Jok Um (Ken Kessel) began studying with Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1975, received inka, or permission to teach, in 1996, and transmission in 2017. Zen Master Jok Um is a Licensed Clinical...
Don't Say Difficult, Just Do It with Zen Master Dae Kwan
Zen Master Dae Kwan studied Buddhism at the Kwok Kwong Buddhist College in Hong Kong in the 1970s and ordained as a nun at Ajahn Chaa's International Forest Monastery in Thailand in 1981. She...
