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How Humans Work with Jef SziIn depth inteviews that explore the facets of our human condition Author: Jeffrey Szilagyi
How Humans Work Podcast engages real conversations with people both notable and overlooked as we seek to deepen our connection to the things that make us human: How do we work? What's going on in us and between us? What makes us tick? What have we lived through? What have we been able to overcome and what we haven't? The destination is to be truly on the human journey as we aim to use stories, personal and collective, to get a better handle on the labyrinths inside the human heart. Join author, renaissance acupuncturist, and curious human Jef Szi as he draws on his body of diverse knowledge to uncover the humanity in the motivations, the sense in the choices and the truth in the moments which shaped the real lives of his guests. ***** Season One is dedicated to Finding Fathers and the personal stories around them. Season Two explores important Passages in the lives of our guests. Season Three (current) is a varied journey into The Nature of Stress Language: en Genres: Education, Health & Fitness, Self-Improvement Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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#37: Fu Schroeder - Leaping Into the Yellow River
Episode 37
Thursday, 7 March, 2024
Episode #37 SummarySenior Zen Dharma teacher, Fu Schroeder, sits down with Jef Szi for a heart-felt and mind-opening exploration of Zen Buddhism. As a System of Knowledge, Zen is one of the great wisdom lineages—handed down across centuries and into the lap of Fu in the 1970’s.This delightful conversation offers our community a nourishing encounter with a Zen elder—a holder of wisdom who can provide gems for facing life’s mysteries and hardships. With much kindness and a great deal of playful insight, Fu shares key elements of the Zen way and her path with it. She offers us gems for how we can face our mind, our suffering, and the vastness of being. She shows us how the path of Zen—quietude, or “just sitting,” gives us access to calm and negotiate change and the jaw-dropping truth of impermanence. In this show, we come to learn how Zen offers mental clarity and abiding presence for the human soul. Born out of Buddha's path and transmitted for generations, Fu walks us through the accuracy and the medicine of the Four Noble Truths. We find we are not the first to struggle with the nature of the mind or the reality of death.Episode #37 invites us into the teachings of the Zen path. In Fu, we find a kind, frank, and mirthful sojourner, who is not only a fantastic conversationalist but a teacher who is equally poetic and practical. Listen in to this one because it is not often in today’s world someone can steadfastly point us toward the vastness of reality—be it the experience of the Moon, the sound of the rain, or the courage to Leap into the Yellow River. About Fu: Furyu Nancy Schroeder, a resident of San Francisco Zen Center since the 1970s, became Abiding Abbess at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in March 2014 and stepped down from that role in March 2023. Fu has held most of the monastic positions at SF Zen Center and has been an active supporter of programs for children, people of color, the gay and lesbian community, and the interfaith community. In 2008 she was elected to the Marin Women's Hall of Fame, and in 2010 she was appointed to the Board of the Marin Community Foundation. In addition, she has previously co-led SF Zen Center's Contemplative Caregiver Course. She received Dharma Transmission from Tenshin Reb Anderson in 1999.
