The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast episodes

February 09, 2019 Changsha Advancing a Step (part 1/2)
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Book of Serenity, Case 79 Zen Center of New York City, 02/09/2019

58 min
February 08, 2019 Mondo on the Precept of Being Giving and Not Stealing
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Zen Center of New York City, 02/07/2019 What is giving? What is stealing? Within Buddhism there are many ways to understand this. Literally, on its face; with an openness, acknowledging that when rules are rigid they can result in less compassion than if the rules are not adhered to; and further, with respect to time, place, person and position.In this question and answer teaching, the sangha and Shugen Roshi explore, together, what this precept is, its many meanings, and the sometimes complicated ways in which we can apply it and it affects our lives.
*Note: We experienced Technical Audio difficulties with this talk. There are some sections of the audio which we were unable to repair around 37:00-39:30, and 48:30. The second problem section included a lost question.
1 hr 23 min
February 03, 2019 Yunmen says “You’ve Missed It”
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi Gateless Gate, Case 39 Zen Mountain Monastery, 02/03/2019
Exploring Yunmen’s reply to a monk in the case, “You’ve missed it,” what is the transcendent use of speech, and how does it open us to practicing what is real and what is true? Wishing for the gladness of all, how do we truly begin such a goal by working with ourself? Accepting that it is not easy, how can our lives become truly Alive?
*Note: We experienced Technical Audio difficulties with this talk. On 2/5 we replaced the audio file with an improvement. If you downloaded the old audio, you may wish to re-download this one. The audio gets better 5 minutes into this talk.
40 min
February 03, 2019 Shuzan And The Stick
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei Gateless Gate, Case 43
Zen Center of New York City, 02/03/2019
Call it a stick, or don’t call a stick. – Speak! Speak! Hogen Sensei explores the interplay between the relative and absolute, suffering inherent in our attachment to the limited conceptions of our self and reality, and learning to trust the immediate completeness of our moment-to-moment experience.
51 min
January 27, 2019 Baizhang’s “Wild Ducks”
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Blue Cliff Record, Case 53
Zen Mountain Monastery, 01/27/2019 Seeking to be free of hiddenness, attachments, and partiality, Shugen Roshi inquires into this koan conversation as an example of how all aspects that feed into the student teacher relationship contribute to liberation. How do we encounter situations without getting stuck? How does living life as the larger body offer freedom, and also allow for beneficial use of those sense perceptions which previously perpetuated samsara?
48 min
January 27, 2019 Do Not Squander Your Life
Danica Shoan Ankele, Monastic
Zen Mountain Monastery, 01/27/2019

What is squandering? This talk invites us to connect to our personal senses of the crux of what it means to live spiritually, working with our minds to uncover the intrinsic wholeness so often obscured in this very life. How can we use hindrances themselves as a points of entry for discovering a natural mind-state, thus re-connecting to the essence of truth? Forget trying to achieve in practice. Just show up and practice your life. Your one precious life.
42 min
January 26, 2019 Guishan and Iron Grindstone Liu
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
Blue Cliff Record, Case 24
Zen Mountain Monastery, 01/26/2019 How do we eliminate distance in understanding the basis of what is true? This case’s exchange between Liu Tiemo (Iron Gridstone) and her teacher Kuei Shan (Chinese pronunciation) offers insight into resting in Self-nature, empty and undivided.
44 min
January 25, 2019 Right View, Right Seeing
Michelle Seigei Spark, Lay Senior Zen Mountain Monastery, 01/25/2019
This talk looks to basic Buddhist teachings as a foundation for entering practice, citing ‘right view’ as the first step in the eight-fold path. Drawing upon Pali and Tibetan teachings, as well as insights of direct experience, personally examining the four noble truths allows us to return to spaciousness and to trust our ability to love.

1 hr 1 min
January 24, 2019 A Single Excellent Night, Part 3
Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic
Zen Mountain Monastery, 01/24/2019

In the third of his talks on a Pali teaching about the urgency of practicing the present moment, Gokan reflects on aspects of his first two talks inquiring into our tendencies to dwell in either reviving the past or in future hopes, with citations including the Gospel of Thomas.
41 min
January 23, 2019 The Way is Originally Perfect and All-Pervading
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi
from Fukanzazengi, Master Dogen
Zen Mountain Monastery, 01/23/2019 Expounding the opening of Master Dogen’s Fukanzazengi, this talk encourages our trust in experience as practitioners of each moment, as it is — itself a manifestation of Buddha nature pervading the whole universe, existing here and now.

44 min

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