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Koans are paradoxical anecdotes or riddles used in Zen Buddhism to provoke deep thought and challenge conventional thinking, often leading to sudden enlightenment.

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4.6talks•30 min•

ZEN Stories For Sleep & Spiritual Enlightenment

Harmooni

Popular tracks

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4.7guided•3 min

Attitude Of Abundance 3 Min Morning Meditation

Dr. Liz Slonena

4.8guided•10 min

Mindfulness Of What Matters: What Do I Really Want From Life & What Does Life Want From Me?

Tess | Being Moved

4.8guided•31 min

Trust The Timing Of Your Life

Lou Redmond

4.8talks•5 min

Pronoia: Our Unseen Reality

Ven Dr Douglas Myeong'il Cheolsoeng Gentile

4.8guided•11 min

Key To Zazen 2 Clouds & Mind

Seiso

4.7guided•20 min

Everything Is Going To Be Ok

Mark Joseph

4.4guided•24 min

Mindfully Happy Zen Series: 'Who Am I?' Koan Meditation

Mindfully Happy

4.8talks•26 min

Ego Reconstruction Practice

Umi Dan Rotnem

4.8guided•12 min

Zen: What Is The Truth?

Seiso

4guided•20 min

Crisp, Wakeful, Binaural Shikantaza with Guidance from Koans of Addiction

Sebastian Briglia

4.8talks•10 min

Polishing A Tile: Zen Practice

Seiso

4.7talks•13 min

Short Zen Stories: 'A Real Miracle'

Thanet Taout

4.9talks•7 min

Everything The Same - Everything Different

Joe DaRocha

4.7talks•8 min

The Dragon's Song: A Zen Teaching Part 1

Seiso

4.6talks•7 min

No Dead Sitting

Greg Douras

4.7guided•9 min

Zen Oddity & Wisdom: Master Joshu

Silas Day

4.9talks•9 min

Niyama - 2nd Limb Of Yoga (2/8)

Ishar Keshu

4.8talks•15 min

Dropping Ashes On The Buddha

Robert Waldinger

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Wake Up and Live

by Julian Daizan Skinner

This set of eight meditations will introduce you to the range of the Rinzai Zen meditation techniques taught in our school for cultivating insight and vitality. This course is suitable for anyone looking for an introduction to Zen meditation. However, with assiduous and gentle practice, these meditations have the potential to help you “astonish the heavens and shake the earth”.

Newest tracks

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4.7talks•9 min

The Dragon's Song: A Zen Teaching Part-6

Seiso

4.7talks•8 min

The Dragon's Song: A Zen Teaching Part 1

Seiso

4.9talks•9 min

The Dragon's Song: A Zen Teaching Part 2

Seiso

4.3talks•32 min

Zen Mind, Haiku Mind

Sheldon Clark

4.6talks•14 min

The Dangers Of Delusive Certainty

Robert Waldinger

4.5talks•1 min

The Other Side -Zen Story-

Dr. Luis Márquez

talks•61 min

Wumenguan Case 1: Zhaozhou's Dog - April 13, 2014

Teàrlach Eshu Martin Kilgour

4.7guided•27 min

Who Am I? Koan Meditation

Holly Boullé

4.9guided•12 min

Word Of The Year Meditation

Heidi Hancock

4.6talks•14 min

Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us Wake Up?

Robert Waldinger

5talks•49 min

The Ten Ox Herding Pictures As Practice Instruction, 1-4

Sosan Theresa Flynn

4.5talks•24 min

12 Year Secrets From The Sadhu's In India

Douglas Grummons

4.8talks•51 min

Buddhism & Intuition Live Talk With Silas Day & Carrie Suwal

Carrie Suwal

5talks•3 min•

Who Was Master Joshu? Quick Buddhist Lecture For Learning

Silas Day

4.7guided•3 min

Attitude Of Abundance 3 Min Morning Meditation

Dr. Liz Slonena

4.9talks•18 min

Can I Believe In God And Be A Buddhist?

Robert Waldinger

4.3guided•14 min

“Cutting The Cat In Two”: Dealing With Conflict

How to Train a Happy Mind

4.5guided•5 min

Closed-Eye Guided For Calm Focus

Karl Jock Linder

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