Shoukei Matsumoto
Living Dharma —a conversation within our shared habitat
Caring for our habitat. Listening to our voices. Becoming good ancestors. Living Dharma is a conversation within our shared habitat. Shoukei Matsumoto is a Buddhist practitioner and thinker in Japan’s Pure Land tradition — a path that, since Shinran, has been walked not in the monastery but in the midst of people’s everyday life. In this podcast, he sits down with thinkers, faith leaders, philosophers, and fellow seekers from around the world — to speak not from their titles, but from somewhere deeper. Each conversation begins with a simple question: how do we live with presence, responsibility, and care — now, and for those who come after us? As the human-centered age gives way to a wider belonging, we listen across traditions for a people’s Buddhism: not a religion to believe in, but a way of being awake, together, in the one habitat we share. Voices from Japanese Buddhism, rarely heard in English, are part of this commons too. Conversations here try to happen in the middle voice — the place between active and passive, where speaking and listening are not entirely done by separate parties, but arise between us. The Japanese tradition has its own word for this kind of happening: jinen — "of itself, so." --- sound cooperation --- Opening shō (Japanese mouth organ)｜Junpei Otsuka / orin (Japanese singing bowl)｜Syouryu Ending piano｜Nozomu Takahashi www.living-dharma.com
Shoukei Matsumoto
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