The One Open Door Podcast

Written by: David J McKay
  • Summary

  • Informal talks from DJ McKay about spiritual practice: how to live the teachings of the Buddha right here, right now, in this world we inhabit.
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Episodes
  • The Five Centering Tools
    Mar 27 2022

    Contains an overview of spiritual practice as I offer it and as I practice it myself. The podcast begins with a description of our fundamental effort in practice to reside in a place of simple being and pure awareness. I then go on to outline the Five Centering Tools we may use in order to free ourselves from the various fictions and illusions we are subject to when we become entangled within conditioned mind. Simple, practical, and easy to remember.

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    56 mins
  • To Live in Peace in This Confused and Troubled World
    Aug 6 2021

    Is it possible to live in peace in in this terribly confused and troubled world? Yes, it is--though that effort requires, for most people, a radical reorientation.  In this podcast I explore that reorientation, and the one simple but difficult way we may save ourselves from suffering as individuals, and also as a species, if we choose.   

    For information about the practice David facilitates, about the community, and about the supports for awareness practice that are available, go to:

    website: www.theoneopendoor.org
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theoneopendoor
    Daily Dharma private Facebook group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/dailydharma
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_edOCF0OcOdyCqIcFK_IbA
    Instagram: @theoneopendoor

    David McKay entered a Zen Buddhist monastery at the age of twenty-nine and spent the next eighteen years training there in silence. Over time he became a skilled facilitator and counselor, offering retreats and workshops at the monastery and across the country. David left the monastery in the fall of 2014 to further explore life and spiritual practice back in the world. He currently supports awareness and personal transformation in the form of retreats, workshops, and one-on-one spiritual mentoring.

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    47 mins
  • Is Conditioned Mind a Real Thing?
    Jul 25 2021

    In our practice we often talk about conditioned mind (the set of unconscious processes that create and maintain the illusion of a "self" that is separate from Life) in a way that implies it has real agency. We'll say stuff like "conditioned mind wants this" or "conditioned mind is doing that", as if it has actual  intelligence, an independent will, and the desire to cause us suffering in a myriad of ways. People sometimes balk at that sort of language, and they ask me if I actually see conditioned mind as a real thing, as a real entity that is living inside our minds. I made this podcast in order to explore that question. The answer, I'll tell you now, is "yes" and "no"--it depends upon the place you're looking from. Check out this podcast for more. 

    For information about the practice David facilitates, about the community, and about the supports for awareness practice that are available, go to:

    website: www.theoneopendoor.org
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theoneopendoor
    Daily Dharma private Facebook group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/dailydharma
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_edOCF0OcOdyCqIcFK_IbA
    Instagram: @theoneopendoor

    David McKay entered a Zen Buddhist monastery at the age of twenty-nine and spent the next eighteen years training there in silence. Over time he became a skilled facilitator and counselor, offering retreats and workshops at the monastery and across the country. David left the monastery in the fall of 2014 to further explore life and spiritual practice back in the world. He currently supports awareness and personal transformation in the form of retreats, workshops, and one-on-one spiritual mentoring.

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    1 hr and 5 mins

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