The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast episodes

April 18, 2019 Precepts Mondo: Manifest Truth, Do Not Lie
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 4/18/2019
Precepts Mondo
Hogen Sensei explores the fourth precept on truthfulness, not lying. The Dharma is inexpressible; how can anyone speak a true word? The more the Buddha lies, the more he becomes Buddha. What does this mean for our lives?
1 hr 24 min
April 14, 2019 Vowing To Refrain From Unwholesome Action—the Value of Equity
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/14/2019

In this Sunday’s Dharma Discourse, Shugen Roshi summarizes and recaps the sessions of the Spring Ango Intensive retreat that focused on Dogen’s Shobogenzo Fascicle “Refrain From Unwholesome Action.” He brings this teaching to bear on the principle of Equity which include reparations for harm done in the ten values of Beyond Fear of Differences work, including both personal and cultural unwholesome action.
40 min
April 14, 2019 There Is Nothing In The Three Worlds
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 4/14/2019
Blue Cliff Record, Case 37
Hogen Sensei takes up a koan where a teacher asks a student, “Where do you seek the mind?” Realizing that life and death is a vital matter, where do you begin and how do you continue to follow a spiritual practice which gives you nothing to hold on to?
32 min
April 13, 2019 Zazen Is Alive
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 4/13/2019

Hogen Sensei takes up the question of what is zazen. Why do we practice? What is practice, and what motivates us to practice? He points us to Zen Master Joshu’s reply: zazen is alive.
36 min
April 11, 2019 Fusatsu: Wholesome Action
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 4/11/2019

Hogen Sensei explores wholesome action as an action that come out of discrimination rooted in wholeness.
31 min
April 07, 2019 Ruiyan Calls “Master”
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/07/2019
Gateless Gate, Case 12
Insight into the nature of reality, seeing things as they are, can begin when we look into the workings of our minds. The practice of zazen brings us into the realm of inquiry directly, and in this discourse Shugen Roshi offers his commentary on the koan Ruiyan Calls “Master.”
42 min
April 05, 2019 Fusatsu: April 2019 ZMM
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 4/04/2019

The second Fusatsu talk of the Spring Ango on Dogen’s fascicle “Refrain from Unwholesome Action.”
32 min
March 31, 2019 Dharma Encounter
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 3/31/2019

First Dharma Encounter of the Spring Ango on Manifesting Buddha studying Dogen’s fascicle “Refrain from Unwholesome Action.”
1 hr 8 min
March 31, 2019 Accountability and Mutual Responsibility
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 3/30/2019
This talk explores one of the core values established for cultivating the sangha’s “Beyond Fear of Differences” work: accountability to each other. Accountability ensures mutual responsibility for harmony, clear communication, and supporting one another well, and in this discourse Shugen Roshi relates this to the Bodhisattva precept: “Experience the intimacy of things—Do not defile the three treasures.”
47 min
March 31, 2019 Cultivating Reverence
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic
Zen Center of New York City, 3/31/2019

Gokan takes up Dogen’s opening lines of the Ango fascicle, “Refrain from Unwholesome Action,” and asks what is refrain from? Gokan suggests we cultivate reverence.
30 min

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The Mountains and Rivers Order (MRO) is a Western Zen Buddhist lineage established by the late John Daido Loori Roshi and dedicated to sharing the dharma as it has been passed down, generation to…