After three beautiful seasons and one happy anniversary celebration, Zarah Windy the podcast will now be known as Kazane, Sound of the Wind.
When in October 2021 I wanted to order a bokken or wooden training sword with my name engraved in Japanese, my sensei, Zen Takai, decided it was time for me to receive a Samurai name: Kazane. Listen to episode 0 to learn more about this.
The focus of the podcast is still on healing and spirituality, plant medicine and relationships, with an added dimension of martial arts and Japanese culture. Arigato!
Thank you to @gothsa for the Samurai Spirit art.
In this episode, I speak to Reverend Shoshin Ichishima, abbot at the Senzoji Temple in Chiba-ken, Japan, and Professor Emeritus at Taisho University in Tokyo. Ichishima sensei is also the teacher or Monshin sensei, who I spoke to on episode 3 of this podcast.
Ichishima sensei and I spoke on the day the Buddha’s birthday is celebrated in Japan, talking about his experiences teaching Buddhism around the world, including a fire-ceremony that appeared in the local papers in San Fransisco, when it put an end to a drought.
At eighty-two years old, Ichishima sensei is as active as ever, still guiding his students and disciples through the Tendai tradition. You can catch him through the weekly sessions at the Tendai Buddhist institute in New York through this website: https://www.tendai.org/ (https://www.tendai.org/)
28 Mar 2022
KSW episode 4 with Kozan from the Jedi Playbook
Star Wars as Spiritual practice
Kozan and I met through Zen Takai, our mutual Bushido sensei, and immediately connected through our interest in martial arts, Reiki and the Force (maybe one and the same?). In this conversation, he shares about how the Jedi Playbook came to be, and describes his recent encounter with Zen Takai Sensei.
Check out the new Jedi playbook website at www.jediplaybook.com (http://www.jediplaybook.com/) where you can find the oracle deck Kozan san used in this episode for my reading, as well as other cool merch.
Listen to Kozan’s interview with me on his podcast here: https://youtu.be/KBKzRbNq4XM (https://youtu.be/KBKzRbNq4XM)
And don’t forget to follow the @jediplaybook on Instagram!
PS. If you are interested in learning intuitive tarot where you don’t need a book for the meanings, check out my short online course here: https://www.gasshocenter.com/product-page/intuitive-tarot-course (https://www.gasshocenter.com/product-page/intuitive-tarot-course)
25 Feb 2022
KSW Episode 3 with Rev. Monshin Paul Naamon
I didn’t know much about Tendai Buddhism until reading about it in Frans Stiene’s wonderful book “The Japanese Art of Reiki,” after which I started researching about it and also Mikkyo (Esoteric Buddhism or Tantric Zen). That is how I found the Tendai Buddhist Institute in NY, and started attending their weekly online services led by the Temple’s head, Rev. Monshin Paul Naamon.
Not only a scholar (he is retired as Interdisciplinary Professor at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Asian Studies and Human Biology) and a Tendai Buddhist Priest and Secretary General of the Japanese Tendai Buddhism in North America, Monshin Sensei is a very charisamatic character with a great sense of humour, and I am so deeply grateful for the time he took to speak to me about his life and work.
I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
Here are a few topics we covered:
· Difference between Tendai and Zen Buddhism
· Monshin’s personal journey from Judaism to Zen and Tendai
· Ecounter with his sensei, introduction to Tantric Zen (Esoteric) Buddhism – Mikkyo
· Physical training on Mount Hiei
If you are interested in learning more and perhaps joining one of the weekly services, check out the website at: http://www.tendai.org/ (http://www.tendai.org/?fbclid=IwAR0cCL-AeDHnefcIZwbbZ03W7OQiyJIlHyZ3a7C_YU8axVSvi30wLdDTlhg)
You are also welcome to check out my interview with Frans Stiene on Episode 1 of Kazane Sound of the Wind, and more of my work at www.gasshocenter.com
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