The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast episodes

March 30, 2019 Practicing “Refrain From Unwholesome Actions”
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei Zen Mountain Monastery, 3/29/2019 Even in our ignorance of the impact we have on others, karma is created. Hogen Sensei explores how we can use dharma practice to investigate what it is to “just refrain from,” both wholesome and unwholesome activity, as Dogen describes in the fascicle being studied during this Ango.
50 min
March 29, 2019 Alchemy in Practice
Susan Seien Wilder, Lay Senior
Zen Mountain Monastery, 3/28/2019

The precious Dharma teachings have the capacity to hold all of our turmoil and troubles when we take the time to open our hearts, become receptive, and “refrain from unwholesome actions,” recognizing the alchemy that can only happen with a calm mind and a willingness to be transformed.
36 min
March 28, 2019 Shantideva’s Mind Training
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 3/27/2019

The first talk of the Founding Sesshin, this dharma discourse explores Shantideva’s teaching on reclaiming our natural state of awareness and ease through training the mind, bringing the sincere effort of “guarding our minds” through being receptive and responsive to all that arises.
48 min
March 24, 2019 Medicine and Disease Heal Each Other
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Blue Cliff Record, Case 87 Zen Mountain Monastery, 3/24/2019
In this talk, Shugen Roshi uses Yunmen’s pithy teaching on medicine and sickness as a way of looking at the profound and challenging truths of non-attachment and non-duality. Although we may have many ideas about what these words mean, it is only through direct study and practice that we can really understand and embody them. This is the path to genuine compassion and relaxed freedom.
51 min
March 24, 2019 Keeping Still to Move
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei Zen Center of New York City, 03/24/2019 Hojin Sensei brings up the poet Pablo Neruda through the lens of Dogen’s writings on Uji, being time, and on Refraining from Unwholesome Actions, the fascicle being studied this Ango. Hojin reminds us of Dogen’s perspective—time is not merely “flying,” but every moment we are being-time.
38 min
March 17, 2019 Beyond Fear of Differences Ten Values: Trust
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Zen Center of New York City, 3/17/2019
Shugen Roshi explores one of the core values established for the “Beyond Fear of Differences” work: trust. To cultivate confidence in the Sangha’s working together with all our differences, trust is essential—not separate from compassion and love—on the path of liberation for all beings.
46 min
March 17, 2019 Illuminate Your Mind
Danica Shoan Ankele, Monastic
Zen Mountain Monastery, 03/17/2019
On the path of awakening, perfectionism can be confused with clarity. Shoan takes up the important distinction between the two in this senior’s talk.
40 min
March 14, 2019 Fusatsu: Refrain From Unwholesome Action
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Zen Mountain Monastery, 3/14/2019

This Fusatsu talk invites us to reflect deeply on Dōgen’s teaching from the Spring Ango study fascicle: “Refrain from unwholesome action. Do wholesome action. Purify your own mind. This is the teaching of all buddhas.” Shugen Roshi explores how all actions (positive, negative, and neutral) are unborn, undefiled, and are reality manifest in various ways. Study of our thoughts, words, and actions with an undivided heart offers insight to understanding intentions, desires, and karma. Refraining from unwholesome action is how is “the power of practice immediately actualized” which Dōgen describes.
35 min
March 14, 2019 Fusatsu: Karma, elements & embodiment
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, 03/14/2019
Inquiring into Dōgen’s fascicle of our Spring Ango study, “Refrain from Unwholesome Action,” this Fusatsu talk explores the first pure precept of refraining from harmful action, and atonement as letting it all in.
31 min
March 10, 2019 P’an Shan’s There is Nothing in the World
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Blue Cliff Record, Case 37 Zen Mountain Monastery, 3/10/2019 How do we meet the moment, as it is unfolding? To say that there is nothing in the three worlds (form, formless, desire) is to understand that no material world exists outside of mind. Mind itself is without any substance of its own, yet practice involves examining mind. This talk explores how this case and teaching can help us not be bound by anything — by identity, the past, nor intellectual inquiry.
46 min

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