Latest Bodhidharma Podcast Episodes
Completion of Study
Knot Zen - June 09, 2021 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsJust Scott taking on a case.
Two Sicknesses
Knot Zen - June 01, 2021 02:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOur very second Foyan cast. Foyan was much more of a lecturer than the Zen Masters which taught using Cases, and here he outlines the two sicknesses which he sees in the Zen school.
Three Diseases
Knot Zen - May 24, 2021 22:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAre you deaf, but wonder how you are going to listen to Knot Zen? Tune in and find out.
The Fox Case
Knot Zen - May 17, 2021 19:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAfter 500 hours of podcasting we finally made it to the Fox Case. A complicated case in which there's many things to grab on to: cause and effect, rebirth, violence., and if you're lucky, you might regret listening.
Bodhisattvas in the Bath
Knot Zen - May 13, 2021 17:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsKnot Zen: an episodic podcast that tackles Zen, Daoism, and other things not related to Zen!
Guishan's Water Bottle
Knot Zen - May 03, 2021 17:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsWhat is outstanding action? Here, it's kicking over a water bottle. Although, Mumon says the guy who did that: "could not jump out of the trap". The gang talks through the case and then debates what it means to instruct and whether the case is an example of instruction or something else.
Tokusan's Bowl
Knot Zen - April 27, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsKnot Zen: an episodic podcast that tackles Zen, Daoism, and other things not related to Zen!
Dahui's No Grass
Knot Zen - April 19, 2021 17:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsHow do you find a parched pasture, a place where no grass blades? Do you look outside the "gate", inside the "gate"? What even is grass..no, no, Steve, that's not what they mean...we think. Join The Gang for a dharma talk about 3 Zen masters mysteriously weighing in on a metaphor presented ...
Meet Kevin
Knot Zen - April 06, 2021 01:45 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsKnot Zen: an episodic podcast that tackles Zen, Daoism, and other things not related to Zen!
Joshu's Sermon
Knot Zen - April 05, 2021 17:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsJoshu usually keeps it laconic, but in this saying he sermonizes at length...which means the gang goes along and weaves in many topics, ideas, and controversies!
Gobblers of Dregs
Knot Zen - March 29, 2021 20:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsA Knot Zenner gave this sweet version of the case: Huangbo: "You people are all eating out of the dumpster. When are you going to have your own meal, don't you know there's nobody that cooks for you in all of china?" Monk: "What about all the cooks" Huangbo: "They're not cooking for you".
Twin Trees
Knot Zen - March 15, 2021 18:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsEpisode 2, featuring, once again, Emperor Wu. Emperor Wu meets Bodhidharma's brother.
Treasure In The Robe
Knot Zen - March 08, 2021 20:52 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThe Gang clears up the case by touting the treasure when two translators try to untangle the verbal knot tied by Joshu's tongue.
Xuedou's Poem
Knot Zen - March 01, 2021 21:18 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAgain, we are reading from the first chapter in the Blue Cliff Record! This time focusing on Xuedou's verse!
Episode 69: Layman Pang's Good Snowflakes
Knot Zen - February 22, 2021 15:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThe Gang adds "frost on top of snow" by bringing up a koan that's as cold as the weather in Texas (and the person writing the description uses the sort of Verbal Irony thrown around in the commentary). Welcome to the Sanga
Wild Ducks
Knot Zen - February 15, 2021 14:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThe great casters, studious as ever in their endeavors, take a stab at birds. One Zen Master sees ducks, one plays "Duck, Duck, You...", and Yuanwu maybe disregards the integrity of either approach in a in a revisionist eulogy. How BOUT them ducks? When you see them take flight, where do the...
Fault In Action
Knot Zen - February 08, 2021 14:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsScott, Brian and Ewk, weathering the winter woes and summer blues bring some five start level philosophizing in this latest cast about...food.
The Gang Does Zazen
Knot Zen - February 05, 2021 17:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsKnot Zen: an episodic podcast that tackles Zen, Daoism, and other things not related to Zen!
Non-duality
Knot Zen - February 02, 2021 21:03 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsKnot Zen: an episodic podcast that tackles Zen, Daoism, and other things not related to Zen!
Non-duality
Knot Zen - February 02, 2021 21:03 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsKnot Zen: an episodic podcast that tackles Zen, Daoism, and other things not related to Zen!
I Don't Know
Knot Zen - January 25, 2021 21:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsKnot Zen: an episodic podcast that tackles Zen, Daoism, and other things not related to Zen!
The Highest Meaning of the Holy Truths
Knot Zen - January 18, 2021 21:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsKnot Zen: an episodic podcast that tackles Zen, Daoism, and other things not related to Zen!
The Mystic Peak
Knot Zen - January 11, 2021 19:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsKnot Zen: an episodic podcast that tackles Zen, Daoism, and other things not related to Zen!
Yunmen's Staff
Knot Zen - December 31, 2020 22:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsKnot Zen: an episodic podcast that tackles Zen, Daoism, and other things not related to Zen!
Trapped In Words
Knot Zen - December 21, 2020 21:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsKnot Zen: an episodic podcast that tackles Zen, Daoism, and other things not related to Zen!
Joshu's "Wash Your Bowl"
Knot Zen - December 15, 2020 17:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsDoes the cook do the cleaning? The Gang ponders the classic Case where Joshu congratulates a monk for eating breakfast before reminding him to do the dishes.
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