Paths of Practice: Conversations on Journeys into Buddhism

Vincent Moore
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Paths of Practice (PoP) is a podcast that features interviews with people sharing their experiences with Buddhism and Buddhist practice. The podcast includes conversations with folks from a wide variety of backgrounds, both those that have been on the path for a while and those just starting out as well as everyone in between. In a way, the podcast sets out to explore the "84,000 paths to enlightenment," one Buddhist at a time. PoP was created and is hosted by Vincent Moore. Vincent is a relatively new practitioner of Soto Zen and has an MA from the Institute of Buddhist Studies.

  1. Paths of Practice with Paula Lazarz

    21 OCT

    Paths of Practice with Paula Lazarz

    Rev. Shudo Paula Lazarz is a 6th degree Black Sash in Shaolin Kung Fu and an ordained priest in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. Her over two decades of study in the martial arts and Buddhist practice has been an exploration of the idea of the historical Shaolin Temple, culminating in Warrior’s Path Buddhist Academy. Paula is a co-owner of Energy Fitness, Inc., Head Instructor at HealthKick Kung Fu and a Practice Leader at Ancient Dragon Zen Gate. For more information about Paula and the above organizations, please see the following links: Ancient Dragon Zen Gate https://www.ancientdragon.org Warrior's Path Buddhist Academy  https://warriorspathacademy.org HealthKick Kung Fu  https://healthkickkungfu.com We discussed how practicing martial arts in tandem with Chan/Zen peels back the onion layers of our humanity and reveals our true nature, feeling a sense of homecoming while visiting Shaolin Temple as well as Green Dragon Temple/Green Gulch Farm, lay ordination and female representation in sangha leadership, and the importance of remembering that difficulty is part of the training.

    52 min
  2. Paths of Practice with Mindy Newman

    15 OCT

    Paths of Practice with Mindy Newman

    Mindy Newman, MA, MTS, LMHC, is a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist in private practice. She has an MA in counseling psychology from Lesley University and an MTS in world religion from Harvard University. She is a graduate of Nalanda Institute’s Contemplative Psychotherapy Program and taught meditation as part of the institute’s Introduction to Meditation series at Tibet House. Newman was recently one of Tricycle’s online dharma talk leaders and has written several pieces for Tricycle as a contributor. She is a student of Geshe Tenzin Zopa, whom Mindy met on pilgrimage in Nepal in 2018. For more information about Mindy and her work with Tricycle, please see the following links: https://www.mindynewman.com/ https://tricycle.org/author/mindy-newman/ Please also see the following link for Geshe Tenzin Zopa's website: http://www.tenzinzopa.com/ We talked about preparing for a pilgrimage to Bhutan and how sharing reflections with others can strengthen the pilgrimage experience, Geshe Tenzin Zopa and being drawn towards Vajrayana practice, grief and exploring Māyādevī through both inner and outer journeys, and the importance of remembering that the Buddhist journey can be messy.

    47 min
  3. Paths of Practice with Rev. Roland Ikuta

    10 OCT

    Paths of Practice with Rev. Roland Ikuta

    Roland sensei was born in Richmond B.C. He attended the Steveston Buddhist temple and the Calgary Buddhist temple when his family moved there in the 1970’s. He is a retired physician who worked in senior’s care (Geriatric Medicine). While an active temple member all his life he started studying Buddhism more seriously in 2016. He received his first level ordination (Tokudo) in Japan in 2019 and his second level ordination (Kyoshi) in 2022. Besides his temple life he enjoys golf in the summer and is trying to learn the Taiko. He is married to Brenda and has two adult children. For more information about the Buddhist Temple of Southern Alberta (BTSA), please check out the following link: https://www.thebtsa.com/ We discussed internment and the Japanese Canadian diaspora, the development of the BTSA as an amalgamation of other temples in the region, growing up in a temple family and asking for ministerial advice from his younger brother, geriatric medicine and transitioning from a career as a physician to becoming a minister, temple outreach and the impact that an enthusiastic young adult temple group has had on community building, and the importance of taking that step of trying out something new that interests you.

    1h 3m
  4. Paths of Practice with Rev. Michael Tran, M.Div.

    8 OCT

    Paths of Practice with Rev. Michael Tran, M.Div.

    Rev. Michael Tran is an ordained Buddhist minister with over 30 years of Buddhist study and practice, and more than a decade of experience in spiritual care. His training includes lineages in Chinese Ch’an (Japanese Zen), Pure Land, and Tibetan Nyingma traditions, which inform his compassionate and inter-traditional approach to service. He holds a B.A. in East Asian Cultures from UC Irvine and an M.Div. in Buddhist Chaplaincy from University of the West, and completed Clinical Pastoral Education at USC Arcadia Hospital. Rev. Tran is ordained through the International Order of Buddhist Ministers and currently serves as a hospice chaplain, bereavement coordinator, and spiritual counselor. He is a board member and Chief Operations Officer of the Bodhiyana Buddhist Chaplain Fellowship and serves on the ritual teams of Kuang Min Buddhist Association in La Puente and Quan Yum Temple in Los Angeles Chinatown. His work centers on healing, presence, and service across communities. For Rev. Michael's blog (The Buddha Wears Glasses), please check out the following link: www.sgvbuddhism.wordpress.com For more information about the Bodhiyana Buddhist Chaplain Fellowship, please check out the following link: www.bbcf84000.org We talked about Buddhism in the San Gabriel Valley and “3-in-1 Combo” temples, chaplaincy and applying Pure Land teachings to hospice care clients and meeting their needs, recognizing ancestors as temple tenants and protectors through their lotus seats, The Buddha Wears Glasses blog and highlighting the nuanced Buddhist experience, and the importance of sangha, exploring, and the benefits of engaging with monastics.

    1h 19m
  5. Paths of Practice with Rev. Tony Truong

    3 OCT

    Paths of Practice with Rev. Tony Truong

    Rev. Tony Truong serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors and Temple Minister at Ming Ya Buddhist Foundation in Los Angeles, where he supports the community’s liturgical life and daily operations. Ordained as a Lay Minister in 2018 through the International Center for Chinese Buddhist Culture and Education, his path has been shaped by his family’s deep ties to Chinese Buddhist Chan and Pure Land practice, as well as his own training in Shingon Vajrayana. He studied and practiced at Mount Koya in Japan and later continued his formation at Gokoku-ji Temple in Tokyo, under the Buzan-ha sect of Shingon Buddhism, with which Ming Ya has long maintained a spiritual partnership. Alongside his temple service, he is active in developing English-language liturgical resources to help make practice more accessible within Chinese American communities. A second-generation Chinese-Vietnamese American of Teochew descent, Rev. Truong was born in Minnesota, raised in the San Gabriel Valley, and teaches high school English in the region. To learn more about his community and work, visit the temple’s Instagram: @mingyabf.la. We discussed Rev. Truong's early experiences with Buddhism while attending his father’s memorial service and the impact of hearing chanting in the Teochew dialect, curiosity and being drawn to Buddhist symbolism and Ming Ya’s “gold room,” becoming a part of temple leadership and working towards bringing more people into the sangha, Ming Ya’s roots in Vietnamese Daoism and its connections to Shingon, and the importance of remembering that Buddhism is not just philosophy but also experienced through community.

    1h 5m
  6. Paths of Practice with Howard Lazzarini

    22 SEPT

    Paths of Practice with Howard Lazzarini

    Howard Lazzarini holds a degree in Japanese Language and Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. He spent 12 years in Japan and for several years during that time, in the early 1970s, practiced Soto Zen at Antaiji, a small temple that was located in the north Takagamine section of Kyoto. There he met his first teacher, Kosho Uchiyama Roshi and sat in the shikantaza style of Uchiyama Roshi and Dogen. After returning to the US he began studying with Shohaku Okumura Roshi of Sanshin Zen Community in Bloomington, Indiana, where he took lay ordination. He translated The Sound that Perceives the World in close collaboration with Okumura Roshi and Shoko Hayashi Lazzarini, his wife. He currently lives in Everett, Washington, and practices with the Everett Zazen Group located in Everett. Please see below for more information about his upcoming translation, The Sound That Perceives the World: Calling Out to the Bodhisattva by Kosho Uchiyama, as well as the Everett Zazen Group:https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Sound-That-Perceives-the-World/Kosho-Uchiyama/9781614299516 https://everettzazengroup.org/ We discussed growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s and becoming a merchant mariner, finding Antaiji while hitchhiking in Japan and his early experiences with Zen, Kosho Uchiyama Roshi’s life and relationship with the Kannon-gyo, reconnecting with Shohaku Okumura Roshi in the US and starting the Everett Zazen Group in Washington state, and the importance of letting go of likes and dislikes and "opening the hand of thought."

    58 min
  7. Paths of Practice with Primož Korelc Hiriko

    19 SEPT

    Paths of Practice with Primož Korelc Hiriko

    Primož Korelc Hiriko was born in 1985 in Ljubljana (Slovenia), but grew up in Dolenjska. Hiriko spent many years as a Buddhist monk abroad, specifically in Great Britain, New Zealand, Thailand and Sri Lanka. During this period, Hiriko studied Buddhist psychology and developed self-reflection, which gave Hiriko a deeper insight into the mind and psyche. Hiriko's expertise focuses mainly on phenomenological research into the structure of the mind. After ten years of studying Buddhist philosophy and psychology, Hiriko obtained the title of acharya .  In 2016, Hiriko founded the first Slovenian Buddhist monastery, Samaṇadīpa, in Goljek near Trebnje, where Hiriko was the abbot and teacher until 2023. Since then, Hiriko has been acting as its legal representative. Hiriko is also known for being the editor-in-chief of Path Press and the author of two biographical books, “The Hermit of Bundala” and “The Island Within”, as well as being a translator of ancient Buddhist texts. Hiriko is still actively working as a psychosocial and pastoral counselor and has specialized in logotherapy psychotherapy since last year. Hiriko also regularly leads meditation retreats and lectures on meditation in Maribor and Ljubljana. For more information about Hiriko and the Samaṇadīpa Forest Buddhist Monastery, please see below: https://hiriko.org/ https://samanadipa.org/sl/ For a link to Nyanamoli Thero's work that Hiriko mentioned, please see below: https://www.youtube.com/@HillsideHermitage We talked about guilt as a consequence of freedom and as inherent within the broader human experience, psychotherapy and spirituality, the experience of leaving home to pursue a monastic life and investigating the mind, founding Samaṇadīpa Forest Buddhist Monastery in Slovenia and transitioning to lay life, and the importance of knowing that the Buddhist path, though fulfilling, is not always easy.

    57 min
  8. Paths of Practice with Peace Twesigye

    16 SEPT

    Paths of Practice with Peace Twesigye

    Peace Twesigye is a musician, meditation teacher and mentor, teacher of BuddhaDharma, and leadership consultant who hopes to be a part of the changes that unbind each of us from the systems that limit our momentum toward expressions of joy, love, loss, compassion, and creativity. Peace is the former Director of Programming in Buddhist Studies and of the Thích Nhất Hạnh Program for Engaged Buddhism at Union Theological Seminary. Peace is currently on the board of Lion’s Roar Foundation, and is participating in the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock retreat teacher training program from 2025-2028. For more information, please check out Peace's website: https://www.peacetwesigye.com/ We discussed developing and practicing within a self-retreat container, connecting and identifying with Thích Nhất Hạnh and his positionality as a political refugee, chamber music and surrendering to something larger than yourself, Engaged Buddhism and practicing for life, and the importance of acknowledging your connections with spiritual friends.

    52 min
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Paths of Practice (PoP) is a podcast that features interviews with people sharing their experiences with Buddhism and Buddhist practice. The podcast includes conversations with folks from a wide variety of backgrounds, both those that have been on the path for a while and those just starting out as well as everyone in between. In a way, the podcast sets out to explore the "84,000 paths to enlightenment," one Buddhist at a time. PoP was created and is hosted by Vincent Moore. Vincent is a relatively new practitioner of Soto Zen and has an MA from the Institute of Buddhist Studies.

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  • Creator
    Vincent Moore
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    104
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Vincent Moore
  • Show Website
    Paths of Practice: Conversations on Journeys into Buddhism
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