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.
Credits:
Recorded by:
Paul Gerstein, MD
Podcast channel creation and website design:
James Kieffer, Kieffer Consulting, LLC
Intro music:
Dancing for the Answers, Nick Mulvey
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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.
Credits:
Recorded by:
Paul Gerstein, MD
Podcast channel creation and website design:
James Kieffer, Kieffer Consulting, LLC
Intro music:
Dancing for the Answers, Nick Mulvey
Lecture (teisho) to a Zen retreat by Paul Gerstein on 10/27/2024 in which he presents the 7th koan from the Hekigan Roku (Blue Cliff Record): "You Are Eh-Cho!"
To help elucidate this terse and penetrating koan, Paul discusses a famous line from The Diamond Sutra and goes on to explore an incorrect approach to mindfulness practice that can contribute to a kind of meditation illness or "Zen sickness". Paul describes a video presentation on the origins of the universe entitled, "Everything and Nothing" and how a specific understanding of cosmology points to a profound truth at the core of what we call, "Me".
Pandemic Zen
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.
Credits:
Recorded by:
Paul Gerstein, MD
Podcast channel creation and website design:
James Kieffer, Kieffer Consulting, LLC
Intro music:
Dancing for the Answers, Nick Mulvey
