Meeting the Inconceivable | Zen Koans, Dreams & the Creative Life
Pacific Zen Institute
5.0from 24 ratings
- 39
- Episodes
- 5
- Transcribed
- 24
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Meeting the Inconceivable | Zen Koans, Dreams & the Creative Life
Meeting the Inconceivable is a podcast exploring Zen koans, dreams, and the creative life produced by Pacific Zen Institute (PZI). PZI is a lively Rinzai Zen community and mystery school made up of artists, innovators, and seekers of all kinds. Our talks weave traditional Zen and koan practice with poetry, art, Buddhism, Jungian and archetypal psychology, and Eastern and Western myth. Our deep dive in-person retreats are held primarily in Northern California, but our members and gatherings extend worldwide through our online temple. Our mission is to create a culture of transformation through meditation, spirituality, koans, the arts, and conversations about the deepest matters. Join the koan revolution.
- Publisher
- Pacific Zen Institute
- Category
- education · religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 Nov 2024
- Latest episode
- 15 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
5 of 39 episodes have a transcript.
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Walking the Path of the Ancestors
18 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Endless Transformation of Things
21 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Zen of Wiley Coyote & Roadrunner
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Walking the Path of the Ancestors
Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And here you are in this, you know, like 10 by 6 room. And so you start right there and you go straight down, you dive. And you begin to go down to the cold water. And fish, you see fish passing by. Perhaps you see great sharks, the famous great white sharks, beautiful creatures passing by, swimming with effortless twitches. And you keep going down and you see deeper fish, you see those kind of odd fish that live, you know, maybe a few thousand feet down and they just hang out there and you keep going down and oh and you'll see whales will come by and it will get darker it gets darker as it goes down and you're going down and you're in quest of a task set by the ancestors to the bottom of the ocean And you see different kinds of whales. […]
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