Blue Collar Zen

By: spiritual folk-tales & conversations at the Detroit Zen Center
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  • Come into the tea-room & with Zen monks Hwalson, and his student Myungju, at the Detroit Zen Center, as they read spiritual folk-tales, and share conversations about them.
    Detroit Zen Center 2020
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Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Spirituality
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Episodes
  • Tumbledown Sage

    Tumbledown Sage
    Jul 4 2024

    A thief becomes a sage, after his foot is chopped off as punishment for his crimes. As a transformed man, people trust and follow him.

    Join us in the tea room as Sunim reads the story of the great sage Tumbledown, as told by Confucius, and then he and Myungju asks Sunim to share his thoughts on the path.
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    39 mins
  • Of Fire and Weeds

    Of Fire and Weeds
    May 3 2024

    A story within a story.

    An unremarkable monk, a scholar & a young disciple. A loving wife & a foolish husband. Their lives separated by time, but cross on the mountaintop, with fire and weeds the great teachers.
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    35 mins
  • The Old Man with a Broken Arm

    The Old Man with a Broken Arm
    Mar 22 2024

    War: The curse of humanity. An old man with a wrangled & broken arm shares his story from youth, of being the lone surviving man in the entire region, of a long & bloody war in 8th century China that killed 10 million men over the course of decades.

    A story in the book of prose & poems by Po Ch'u I, a famous poet & Taoist of 8th century China. Translated by David Hinton.
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    39 mins

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