The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast episodes

May 22, 2022 The Sisters of Mercy
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 05/22/2022 - What is true compassion and how do we develop it? If Buddhist teachings say a compassionate heart is our birthright, what must we do to reveal it? With Leonard Cohen's song Sisters of Mercy as a muse, Hogen Sensei explores the nature of compassion, its relationship to wisdom and loving-kindness, and the vital role our own suffering plays.
50 min
May 16, 2022 Realizing NO so we can Live YES
Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 05/15/2022 - From the Book of Serenity, Case 18 - Zhaozhou's Dog - If buddha nature is ineffable, if it has no characteristics, then how do we turn towards it? We want to direct our attention towards it so we can examine it and realize it. But it doesn’t exist. It doesn’t have a form. So how do we study that which is our true self, our true nature? Shugen Roshi takes up these questions using the well known koan "Does a dog have buddha nature?"
40 min
May 15, 2022 On Master Hongzhi’s The Practice of True Reality
Degna Chikei Levister, Senior Lay Student - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 05/15/2022 - How do we bring all of who we are into practice? How do we embrace the full reality of the world while not getting turned around by external causes and conditions? In this talk, Chikei Levister explores the teachings of Zen Master Hongzhi on the practice of true reality.
40 min
May 08, 2022 Being Divided; Being Whole
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 05/08/2022 - From Master Wu-men's Gateless Gate, Case 35 - Ch'ien and Her Soul Are Separated - How do we remain undivided amidst the divisive forces within and around us? And where can we truly go to seek wholeness in our lives? In this talk, Shugen Roshi explores the experience of division and wholeness, and how Zen practice brings us closer to the heart of the matter.
44 min
May 08, 2022 Living as the Dragon
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 05/08/2022 - How do we practice fearlessness in the midst of fear? In this talk, Hojin Sensei invokes the dragon - a being that is often referenced in the Zen tradition as an embodiment of our enlightened nature. It is through turning around and facing the dragon with direct, kind awareness, she says, that we develop our capacity for fearlessness.
42 min
May 01, 2022 Dharma Encounter: How Do We Know This Practice Works?
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 05/01/2022 - This Dharma Encounter with Hojin Sensei took place at the conclusion of the Apple Blossom Sesshin. What are our reasons for coming to the Dharma? Is our practice helping to answer those questions? And how do we know that our practice is working? Hojin Sensei takes these questions up with Ango participants in a lively discussion.
1 hr
April 30, 2022 Medicine and Sickness Heal Each Other
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Saturday 04/30/2022 - From The Blue Cliff Record, Case 87 - Medicine and Disease Subdue Each Other - Why do certain afflictions arise for us? Are we simply victims of our karma, of causes and conditions? Or might our hardships be helping us cultivate something that we need? In this talk, Shugen Roshi illuminates how it is through our suffering that we find our path to liberation and that our teachers are often closer than we think.
49 min
April 30, 2022 Fusatsu: The Three Pure Precepts
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Friday Evening 04/29/2022 - Dharma Talk during the Apple Blossom Sesshin 2022 Fusatsu Ceremony - Not Creating Evil, Practicing Good, and Actualizing Good For Others -- these are The Three Pure Bodhisattva Precepts. But what does it mean to truly take up these vows in our own lives? In this talk, Hojin Sensei explores the meaning of each precept and how they can guide us in our practice.
24 min
April 28, 2022 Lotus in the Fire
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Thursday 04/28/2022 - The Buddha pointed to our desires as the origin of our suffering. But how do we understand desire? Does having wants guarantee us pain? In this talk, Hogen Sensei discusses the nature of desire and investigates the difference between having attachments and liking certain things. How can we determine if we are bound by desire? And how do we hold the things in life we do like?
52 min
April 27, 2022 Alive in Silence
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Wednesday 04/27/2022 - Why are we drawn to a retreat where silence is practiced? And why did the Buddha refer to this practice as "Noble Silence"? In this talk, Hojin Sensei opens the April Apple Blossom Sesshin by inquiring into the first sesshin precaution--to maintain inner and outer silence--and explores what silence and stillness have to offer us.
39 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…