The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast episodes

November 16, 2022 Time Present
Linda Shinji Hoffman, Senior Lay Student - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Wednesday 11/16/2022 - Lay senior student Shinji Hoffman shares the poetry of T.S.Elliot and 13th Century Chinese Zen Master Wu-Men, and the practices of 14th century European farmers and other stories looking at the ways in which we think of and perceive, hold and use time and its many facets.
40 min
November 13, 2022 Jukai Ceremony, Fall Ango 2022
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 11/13/2022 - Shugen Roshi officiates the Fall 2022 Ango Jukai ceremony at Zen Mountain Monastery. Today, five students - Hogetsu, Shinrin, Sonju, Jiko, & Chian - formally receive the sixteen Buddhist precepts, taking up these living teachings, living vows in the company of the sangha with family and friends. Stephanos Hogetsu Koullias ("Liberated Moon"), Walter Shinrin Burton ("Facing Truth / Facing Reality"), Tasha Sonju Ortlof ("Reverent Pearl"), Jesse Jiko Caudill ("Compassionate Peace"), Weston Chian Minissali ("Peaceful Ground")
1 hr 12 min
November 06, 2022 Practicing Real Life
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 11/06/2022 - From the Book of Serenity, Case 53 - Huangbo's "Dreg-slurpers" - The Buddha said we all have Buddha Nature; we all have an already completely present and perfect enlightened mind, an enlightened nature. Shugen Roshi talks about spiritual practice, the "path of non-attachment" and its meaning in the context of the world in which we live wherein there is such a strong inclination to go against that.
48 min
October 30, 2022 Dharma Encounter: Clear All The Way Through
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 10/30/2022 - Dharma Encounter at the Conclusion of the 2022 Harvest Sesshin - In the midst of our delusions, attachments, false views, deep habit patterns, we endeavor to live a life of alleviating suffering, not adding more pain and confusion, wanting to be clear in our actions, wanting to feel that we're doing the right thing... So how can we be confident about that? And what is that confidence; is it trustworthy? How do we practice an enlightening path from within the place where we are? Shugen Roshi takes up these questions with Ango participants in a heartfelt discussion.
1 hr
October 29, 2022 What Do We Not Know
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Saturday 10/29/2022 - From The True Dharma Eye, Case 247 - Ruiyan Calls "Master!" - How do we experience this "all inclusive world"? It's our basic situation; this intimacy that all sentient beings share. But it's hard to have faith in that and we can knot ourselves up and stay in the confines of what we think we know. Shugen Roshi reminds us to ask "What is this", not "Why is this", and to ask "What do we not know."
41 min
October 28, 2022 Dancing with the Moon
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Friday 10/28/2022 - From The Blue Cliff Record, Case 74 - Chin Niu's Rice Pail - Hogen Sensei begins with the dancing, laughing Master Chin Niu. There are routines in and throughout our lives, as it is in the life of the monastery. How do we understand these routines? How do we practice them? And what is it that's reflected in our actions? Is there receiving? Is there offering? Within each of our unique karmic lives, we bring forth our true nature, with awareness or not.
35 min
October 28, 2022 Fusatsu: Intimate Possibilities
Zen Mountain Monastery - Dharma Talk during the Harvest Moon Sesshin 2022 Fusatsu Ceremony - What is liturgy? Is it bowing? Chanting? Washing the face? What makes something liturgy and what makes something not liturgy? Hojin Sensei speaks on this topic during Fusatsu (renewal of vows) ceremony.
32 min
October 27, 2022 Exhausting the Stain of Old Habits
Zen Mountain Monastery - Drawing on a poem by Zen Master Hongzhi, Gokan explores skillful ways to work with deep habit patterns in the mind.
40 min
October 23, 2022 Bringing Forth Compassion
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 10/23/2022 - From the True Dharma Eye, Case 146 - The Sixth Ancestor's "Your Mind Is Moving" - How does understanding bring forth compassion? How do we put to use our "not knowing"? How do we keep from getting mired in duality, right and wrong? Shugen Roshi talks about these important questions beginning with this koan.
44 min
October 23, 2022 Bodhisattvas in Training
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 10/23/2022 - Hojin Sensei speaks about Shantideva's "The Way of the Bodhisattva" as a deep teaching about our true nature. She brings alive the meeting point of our Bodhisattva vows and our growing edges, the absolute and the relative, emptiness and form.
51 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…