The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast

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The Zen Mountain Monastery Podcast episodes

April 24, 2022 The Great Bodhisattva Vows
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 04/24/2022 - Why are the Bodhisattva Vows so important in Buddhist Practice? Where do they come from and why are they these particular four--to save all sentient beings, to put an end to desires, to master the dharma, and to attain the Buddha Way? In this talk, Shugen Roshi explores the meaning of each vow and illustrates what they can teach us about our true nature.
43 min
April 17, 2022 Jukai Ceremony, Spring Ango 2022
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 04/17/2022 - Shugen Roshi officiates the Spring Ango Jukai ceremony at Zen Mountain Monastery in which six students receive the sixteen Buddhist precepts. Rennin, Seisan, Jiho, Yugaku, Shindo & Onren have all been practicing as formal students and studying these moral and ethical teachings for a number of years. During the ceremony Shugen Roshi offers joyful encouragement to the recipients as they take up these living teachings, living vows.
Richard Rennin Hubbard ("Pure Patience")
Michele Seisan Laura ("Peaceful Mountain")
Mark Jiho Taylor ("To Set Free, Release the Self'")
Tom Yugaku Caplan ("To Remember and Know Courage")
Rebecca Shindo Kisch ("Trust in the Way")
Daniel Onren Latorre ("True Kindness" / "Pure Gratitude")
1 hr 18 min
April 17, 2022 Being Still
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 04/17/2022 - In this talk, Hojin Sensei speaks about the profound practice of being still. She explores the relationship between stillness and activity, and offers teachings on how we might interrupt our busyness through being undivided in every moment.
41 min
April 10, 2022 Faith in Buddha Nature
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 04/10/2022 - From The Blue Cliff Record, Case 21 - Chih Men's "Lotus Flower, Lotus Leaves" - Shugen Roshi explores Buddha Nature as a foundational teaching of the Dharma, one we can actively study and focus on. How can we come to reveal our own enlightened nature, and what conditions are necessary for the husk of our seed to open?
48 min
April 10, 2022 Welcoming Strange and Wonderful Visitors
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei - Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 04/10/2022 - What is taking refuge in letting go and stillness, among the many visitors to our guest house? In this talk, Hojin Sensei speaks to the practice of resting in all moments of our living and dying, bringing in her recent experience of sitting with a dying friend. Being still, not turning away, we will encounter the unborn and the undying.
38 min
April 03, 2022 Dharma Encounter: Taking Refuge in the Buddha
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 04/03/2022 - This Dharma Encounter with Hogen Sensei took place at the conclusion of the March Founding Sesshin. What does it mean to take refuge in the Buddha? What does it mean to take refuge and what exactly are we taking refuge in? Hogen Sensei takes this question up with Ango participants in a lively discussion.
1 hr 1 min
April 03, 2022 Precious Human Birth
Patrick Yunen Kelly, Senior Lay Student - Zen Center of New York City, Sunday 04/03/2022 - How can we liberate the causes of our suffering in the midst of our lives and circumstances? In this talk, Yunen examines the Buddha's teachings on suffering and the liberation of suffering, both of which are the reality of having a human life. Yunen frames this talk with a poem by Uchiyama Roshi, "Samadhi of the Treasury of the Radiant Light."
32 min
April 02, 2022 Appreciating Our Ancestors
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Saturday 04/02/2022 - In this talk, Shugen Roshi speaks about the importance of having a connection with our dharma ancestors. How we should appreciate the great heart-felt efforts that were made to allow us to have the opportunity to train and practice today. Roshi shares with us some of the early days of Zen Mountain Monastery, as well as the efforts put forth by Daido Roshi, his teacher Maezumi Roshi, two of Maezumi's teachers, Yasutani Roshi and Koryu Roshi, as well as all the students who were training with them.
45 min
April 01, 2022 Fusatsu: Experience the Intimacy of Things
Ron Hogen Green, Sensei - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Friday Evening 04/01/2022 - Dharma Talk during the Founder's Sesshin 2022 Fusatsu Ceremony - The tenth Buddhist Precept is to "Experience the intimacy of things; Do not defile the Three Treasures." How do we understand and apply this Precept? In this talk, Hogen Sensei takes up this profound teaching, imploring us to look closely at our practice and our lives.
18 min
March 31, 2022 The Empty Bowl
Linda Shinji Hoffman, Senior Lay Student - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Thursday 03/31/2022 - Why do 'bowls' play a prominent significance as a utensil and symbol in Buddhist practice? In this talk, Senior Lay Student and sculptor Linda Shinji Hoffman offers a meditation on the teachings of bowls – on emptiness and fullness, food and hunger, creation and decay. In the Zen tradition, we take food in a formal meal called Oryoki – translating to "just enough". What can we bring to mind as we receive food that will lead us closer to the true nature of reality? What do our bowls hold? And what does this tell us about our lives?
43 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…